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If you were half the man you think you are, you’d be twice the man you are. – Unknown
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The only man who never makes a mistake
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
Funny Anger Quotes
Let me make your day better with some funny anger quotes selected just for you.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? – Sydney J. Harris
Get mad, then get over it. – Colin Powell
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Malachy McCourt
Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger. – Sweetpea Tyler
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. – Seneca
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. – Mark Twain
The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong. – Wilson Mizner
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: ‘I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.’ When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. – Epictetus
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. – Albert Einstein
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. – Booker T. Washington
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Golda Meir
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Expressing anger is a form of public littering. – Willard Gaylin
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. – Daniel Webster
Anger should never be an overnight guest. – Neal A. Maxwell
He is a fool who cannot be angry; – Seneca
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness. – William Arthur Ward
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. – Will Rogers
Can you, please, choose your favorite and write it down in the comments section? Thank you!
Albert Einstein Aphorisms
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Leo Tolstoy Quotes
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Pierre de Fermat Quotes
Today we celebrate Pierre de Fermat birthday. Let me share with you some wonderful Pierre de Fermat Quotes.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. – Pierre de Fermat Quotes
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. – Pierre de Fermat Quotes
I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world. – Pierre de Fermat Quotes
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. – Pierre de Fermat Quotes
I will share all of this with you whenever you wish. – Pierre de Fermat Quotes
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. – Pierre de Fermat Quotes
Famous Lucille Ball Quotes
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” – Lucille Ball Quotes
Quotes of the Day
Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. – Unknown
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. – Benjamin Disraeli
People are very open-minded about new things — as long as they’re exactly like the old ones. – Charles Kettering
The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. – Unknown
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. – Confucius
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. – Linus Torvalds
Napoleon Hill Quotes
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
25 Change Quotes
1. “Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.” —Mairead Maguire
2. “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.” —Unknown
3. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda
4. “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.” —Pauline R. Kezer
5. “It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.” —Leo Tolstoy
6. “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.” —Lester Thurow
7. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” —Lao Tzu
8. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” —Oprah Winfrey
10. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” —Alan Watts
11. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” —Harold Wilson
12. “The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.” —William H. Seward
13. ”A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache” —Catherine the Great
14. “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” —Barbara de Angelis
15. “The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.” —Unknown
16. “If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.” —Sharon Salzberg
17. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
18. “There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.” —Stephen Nachmanovitch
19. “New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.” —Peter Senge
20. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg
21. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” —M. Scott Peck
22. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus
23. “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” —Anais Nin
24. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” —Eric Hoffer
25. “The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —James Baldwin