Tag: Life wisdom repeats

Quotes October 18, 2018

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
John Kenneth Galbraith,
economist
 
 
 
 
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston,
author and anthropologist
 
 
 
 
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.
Lin Yutang,
writer
 
 
 
 
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke,
poet
 
 
 
 
Temperate, sincere and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
James Rush,
writer
 
 
 
 
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie,
writer
 
 
 
 
One must love humanity in order to penetrate into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Georg Buchner,
writer
 
 
 
 
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Zig Ziglar,
writer and motivational speaker
 
 
 
 
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power.
Muriel Rukeyser,
poet
 
 
 
 
A man who knows how little he knows is well; a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
Laotzu,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
essayist, poet and philosopher
 
 
 
 
This dramatic and turbulent world makes a mockery of our plans and predictions.
Margaret Wheatley,
management consultant
 
 
 
 
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Benjamin Rush,
physician and Founding Father
 
 
 
 
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes,
mathematician and philosopher
 
 
 
 
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
Isaac Asimov,
writer and professor
 
 
 
 
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing — refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy,
writer

Quotes August 27, 2018

“Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.”
James Altucher
 
 
 
 
“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.”
Warren Buffett
 
 
 
 
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
 
 
 
 
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
Samuel Smiles
 
 
 
 
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
 
 
 
 
“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
Noël Coward
 
 
 
 
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
Dreams are the food of human progress.
Vanna Bonta,
writer and actress
 
 
 
 
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte Brontë
 
 
 
 
No sane person should believe that something is “subjective” merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
Hilary Putnam,
philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist
 
 
 
 
Some people are in secret competition with you and still losing. Pray for them.
IamPossibility.com
 
 
 
 
“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”
Marcus Aurelius

Quotes June 18, 2018


Remember
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop,
fabulist
 
 
 
 
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done … the worst is that which delays them.
David Lloyd George,
prime minister
 
 
 
 
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot,
writer and journalist
 
 
 
 
You won’t be happy, whatever you do, unless you’re comfortable with your own conscience.
Lucille Ball,
entertainer and producer
 
 
 
 
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln Memories are the architecture of our identity.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela,
activist and political leader
 
 
 
 
May your character preach more loudly than your words.
Mohamed Ayyed
 
 
 
 
A lot of what weighs you down isn’t yours to carry.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Memories are the architecture of our identity.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Who am I to judge another, when I walk imperfectly.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
And even if you’re not here to stay, I’m happy the universe allowed your soul to stop by.
Thank you,
Unknown