100 Famous Quotes |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. |
One |
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. |
Five |
Thomas Jefferson |
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I feel the harder I work, the more luck I have. |
Two |
I never considered a difference in opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. |
One |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what needs to be done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. |
One |
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. |
Three |
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. |
Three |
General George S. Patton |
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Someone has to be on top, why not you? |
One |
Mark Twain |
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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. |
One |
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. |
Three |
Virgil |
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We are not capable of everything.
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One |
Winston Churchill |
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. |
One |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. |
One |
John F. Kennedy |
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An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. |
One |
Marie Curie |
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. |
One |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued. |
One |
Plato |
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Wise men speak to have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. |
One |
Alexander the Great |
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There is nothing impossible to those who will try. |
Two |
Booker T. Washington |
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
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Two |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. |
Two |
Benjamin Franklin |
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Tell me… I’ll forget; Teach me… I’ll remember; Involve me… I’ll learn. |
Two |
Isaac Newton |
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges. |
Two |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. |
Two |
Aristotle |
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
Two |
The high minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them. |
Five |
Henry David Thoreau |
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We were born to succeed, not to fail. |
Two |
Samuel Johnson |
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The true measure of a person is how you treat someone who can do you absolutely no benefit. |
Two |
Marcus Aurelius |
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. |
Two |
Confucius |
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Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself. |
Two |
Socrates |
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Be as you wish to be seen. |
Two |
John Adams |
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To be good, and to do good. |
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Thomas Edison |
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. |
Three |
Frederick Douglas |
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous. |
Three |
Henry Ford |
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. |
Three |
Alexander Hamilton |
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything. |
Three |
Homer |
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To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. |
Three |
Horace |
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Seize the Day! Put no trust in tomorrow. |
Three |
Washington Irving |
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. |
Three |
Leonardo da Vinci |
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. |
Three |
Marcu Aurelius |
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. |
Three |
Michelangelo |
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Grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. |
Three |
J.P. Morgan |
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further. |
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John Ruskin |
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. |
Four |
Thomas Paine |
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Character is much easier kept than recovered. |
Four |
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. |
Four |
Oscar Wilde |
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The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. |
Four |
Woodrow Wilson |
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Life does not consist in thinking. It consists in acting. |
Four |
Augustus |
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Well done is quickly done. |
Four |
Cicero |
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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. |
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Charles Darwin |
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. |
Five |
Johann von Goethe |
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A useless life is an early death. |
Five |
Herodotus |
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen. |
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Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Ability is nothing without opportunity. |
Five |
Pericles |
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It is from the greatest danger that the greatest glory will be won. |
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