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Day: December 19, 2010

Abba Quotes

“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.” – Agnetha Faltskog

“I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha.” – Anni-Frid Lyngstad

“We don’t want to write political songs. We don’t want to turn our records into speeches.” – Benny Andersson

“There’s a real melancholy in [Abba’s] songs… all the flourishes, like big double octaves on the piano. We stole them like crazy.” – Elvis Costello

“I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.” – Lasse Hallstrom

“I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.” – Elaine Paige

“I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.” – Pete Waterman

“I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.” – Martin Fry

“You’re not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It’s nerdy.” – Izabella Scorupco

Honesty Quotes

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O’Malley

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert

With lies you may get ahead in the world – but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

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

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams

Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

Motivational Quotes for Overcoming Failure

Before success comes in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. – Roger Crawford

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. – James A. Michener

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George E. Woodberry

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Robert Galvin

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. – H. Stanley Judd

Life Quotes

«Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.» — Albert Einstein

«There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.» — Albert Schweitzer

«Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.» — Alice Walker

«A useless life is an early death.» — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

«Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.» — Ralph Waldo Emerson

«A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.» — Robert Frost

«The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.» — Willa Cather

«When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.» — Colleen C. Barrett

«The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.» — Robert Frost

«Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.» — Jane Addams

«The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.» — C.S. Lewis

«Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.» — Beatrix Potter

«And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.» — Martin Luther King Jr.

«An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.» — Martin Luther King Jr.

«Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.» — Gloria Steinem

«Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!» — C.S. Lewis

«What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.» — Martin Luther King Jr.

«To live is Christ, to die is gain Php 1:21» — Various

«Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.» — Gordon B. Hinckley

«Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it.» — L.M. Montgomery

«…it (feminism) is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.» — G.K. Chesterton

«All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!» — J.M. Barrie

«Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.» — Swami Vivekananda

«Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.» — Dottie Walters

«A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.» — Nathaniel Hawthorne

«Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.» — Ralph Waldo Emerson

«There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.» — Paul Graham

«One should become the master of one’s mind rather than let one’s mind master him.» — Nichiren Daishonin

«There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.» — Adrienne Rich

«Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.» — Oscar Wilde

«Prayers said by good people are always good prayers» — Willa Cather

«Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.» — Les Brown

«I have no time to justify you, fool, youre blind, step aside from me» — Dave Matthews Band

«Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.» — Robert Frost