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
  • Important
  • Long

• 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

• Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Trouble
  • Judging
  • Privilege

• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Laughing
  • Revenge
  • Dies

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Poison
  • Ruins
  • Destroys