Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

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• If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • World
  • Sports
  • Practice

• If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Giving

• As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Long
  • Important

• The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Stop
  • Wife

• I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

  

  P. W. Botha
  • Good
  • Mean
  • Tired

• It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Women
  • Opinions
  • Booth

• I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Courage

• Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Health

• The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Men
  • Important

• The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

  

  Charles Marion Russell
  • Country
  • Hair
  • Horse

• My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.

  

  Gene Sarazen
  • People
  • Moments
  • Golf

• Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Lost

• Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Love
  • Ruins
  • Flourish

• I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Truth
  • Church
  • Building

• Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Character
  • Responsibility
  • Script

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Poison
  • Ruins
  • Destroys