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Proverbs

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We can complain because flowers have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have flowers ~ Chinese proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight – Japanese proverb

One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints ~ Italian proverb

Necessity is the mother of invention ~ English proverb

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love – Turkish proverb

Dig the well before you are thirsty ~ Chinese proverb

Even great towers start at ground level ~ Chinese proverb

Famous Quotes

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“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.” – Paulo Coelho

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.” – Robert Schuller

“Success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you” – Zig Ziglar

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein

“The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television” – Andrew Ross

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” – Washington Irving

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie

“If you understand life, you must be misinformed.” – Paulo Coelho

“Two great talkers will not travel far together.” – Spanish Proverb

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Goodbye without reasons is the most painful one. Love without reasons is the most beautiful one.” – Dhanti Praspani

“Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.” – Ivern Ball

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not remember days, we remember moments” – Cesare Pavese

“Superior men are modest in speech but exceed in actions” – Confucius

Famous People Quotes #6

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“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.” – Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.” – Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” – Seneca (3BC – 65AD)

“Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?” – Bumper Sticker

“God, please save me from your followers!” – Bumper Sticker

“Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.” – The Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“Luck is the residue of design.” – Branch Rickey – former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” – Mel Brooks

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

“Wit is educated insolence.” – Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t” – Erica Jong (1942-)

“Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.” – Erica Jong (1942-)

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou (1928-)

“Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.” – Gore Vidal

“Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.” – Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.” – Guy Davenport

“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Famous People Quotes #4

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“He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.” – Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” – Voltaire (1694-1778)

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.” – H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.” – Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.” – J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

“Facts are the enemy of truth.” – Don Quixote – “Man of La Mancha”

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.” – Anais Nin (1903-1977)

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.” – Frederick (II) the Great

“Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.” – Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.” – George Eliot (1819-1880)

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
– Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” – Steven Wright

“I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney (1901-1966)

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” – James Branch Cabell

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” – John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” – Umberto Eco

“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.” – Jimmy Durante

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Famous Quotes About Life

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“May you live all the days of your life!” – Jonathan Swift

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” – Tom Blandi

“Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.” – Katherine Anne Porter

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” – Sidney Madwed

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake” – Henry David Thoreau

Learn from your Work Quotes

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You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. – Zig Ziglar

Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small; you never know where it may lead. – Julia Morgan

You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others… No one’s education is ever complete. – Sir. John Templeton

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. – Thomas Henry Huxley

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. – C.R. Lawton

No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something. – Sean Gregory Derrick

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. – Barbara Sher

Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow. – Les Brown

Invest in yourself, in your education. There’s nothing better. – Sylvia Porter

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. – Les Brown

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald E. Osborn

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. – C.R. Lawton

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. – William Ellery Channing

The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement. – Unknown

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. – Weston H. Agor

When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath. – Richard A. Nelson

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Unknown

Motivational Work Quotes

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money. – Proverbs

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. – John Lennon

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. – Vaclav Havel

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. – Sir William Osier

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. – Henry Ford

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. – Betty Bender

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. – Colleen C. Barrett

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. – John Bay

Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play. – Dr. Laurence Susser

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. – Alberta Flanders

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. – James Lane Allen

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Insightful Quotes

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“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” – William Blake

“Let him who would move the world, first move himself.” – Socrates

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“Do or do not, there is no try” – Yoda

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” – Nietzsche

“The Truth is everywhere and anywhere … just open your eyes and you will see it.” – Unknown


Ancient Quotes

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Let me share with you some great, famous, ancient quotes. I mean, wise quotes from ancient people.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones. – Philippos
I can conceive of two worlds. The world out there and the world within my head. – Philippos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop
It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. – Anaxandrides
Let us not misunderstand what courage really is. The absence of fear is the courage of the mad. Doing what is right in the presense of fear, is the courage of the noble. – Phillipos
My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them – Phillipos
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. – Sophocles
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
They can because they think they can. – Virgil
We are what we repeatedly do. – Aristotle
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato

Will Eisner Quotes

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Will Eisner was an american comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. I want to celebrate his birthday in our own way, sharing Will Eisner Quotes.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny.

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

I’ve spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page of a comic is accidental. It has to be imagined first in your mind before you do it. Those of us who know something about the art of painting know that working on a canvas, very often a lot of serendipitous things happen that work to the advantage of the painter ultimately.

All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

You can’t talk about heartbreak to a kid.