Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
Popular quotes of the
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
Ernest Hemingway -
Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients’ communications needs rarely involve just one medium.
Katherine McCoy -
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy -
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
Education : a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody -
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix -
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
Albert Einstein -
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.
Adolf Hitler -
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Oscar Wilde -
I remember being on this film once, and people said, 'You're not on Instagram or Facebook - what's your deal?' They said, 'In this industry, if you want to do well, people want to invest in who you are.' I said, 'I'm an actor, not a celebrity - they watch my acting, and hopefully that's enough.'
Joe Gilgun -
Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.
James Freeman Clarke
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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
John Milton -
I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.
David Gregory -
On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
Fidel Castro -
The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.
Clark Kerr -
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
Martin Buber -
I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.
Scott Stapp
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There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.
Pete Rozelle -
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings -
Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
E. F. Schumacher -
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
Tahl Raz -
Following the sexual revolution of the Sixties, dating has become a form of Russian roulette. Some girls have traditional religious values and mean to remain virgins until marriage. Others are leery of AIDS, unsure of what they want, but can be convinced. For others, anything goes: they’ll jump into bed on the first date. What’s a guy to do?
Camille Paglia -
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
Rod Stewart
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I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.
Isabel Vargas Lizano -
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
Lewis Carroll