Affirmations and Quotations
Quotes
To know the true value of time we must seize and enjoy every moment of it.
—Lord Chesterfield
Night comes to the desert all at once, As if someone turned off the light.
—Joyce Carol Oates
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
—Andre Gide
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Never confuse motion with action.
—Benjamin Franklin
Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do.
—Thomas Stoppard
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
—Thomas Carlyle
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
—Indira Ghandi
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
—Artistole
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
—Samuel Johnson
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
—Indira Ghandi
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
—Mary Catherine Bateson
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; He is just using his memory.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
—Virgil
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
—John W. Gardner
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
—Lao Tsu
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to o on as well as a good place to remain.
—Mary Catherine Bateson
Striving to be better, oft we mar what’s well.
—William Shakespeare
So many things one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever….
—Isak Dineson
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
—Luis Bunuel
Act if is what you do makes a difference. It does.
—William James
Good things happen to those who hustle.
—Anais Nin
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
—John W. Gardner
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
—Robert F. Kennedy
I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
—Robert Frost
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
—Frances Hutcheson
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