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Marie Curie Quotes
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Fear Quotes
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius
A chicken doesn’t stop scratching just because worms are scarce. ~ Grandma Axiom
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood. ~ Jean Baudrillard
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ~ James F. Bell
Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death. ~ Betty Bender
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation — it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. ~ Les Brown
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. ~ Jean Bryant
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. ~ Buddha
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. ~ Dale Carnegie
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ~ Roger Craig
A fighter has to know fear. ~ Cus D’Amato
It all changed when I realized I’m not the only one on the planet who’s scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, “Are you scared, too?” “You bet your sweet life I am.” “Aha, so that’s the way it is for you, too.” We were all in the same boat. That’s probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, “Who else feels like this?” the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way. ~ Stan Dale
The first and great commandment is, “Don’t let them scare you.” ~ Elmer Davis
Fear is the biggest motivator. ~ Bill Dixon
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~ Donald Downes
My worst fear is that I’ll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath. ~ Richard Dreyfuss
He without fear is king of the world. ~ E. E. Eddison
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. ~ Ed Foreman
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. ~ Viktor E. Frankl
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit. ~ Marvin Gaye
10 Greatest Wisdom Quotes
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.” – Christopher Hampton
“Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.” – Samuel Smiles
“My father used to say, you would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they did.” – Dr. Phil McGraw
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington
“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak … sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.” – Anonymous
“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.” – John Ruskin
Top 20 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
When it comes to quotes, Mahatma Gandhi is one of my favorites. Let me share with you Top 20 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes.
1. “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong” – Mahatma Gandhi
2. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
3. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
4. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” – Mahatma Gandhi
5. “The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles” – Mahatma Gandhi
6. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
7. “Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it” – Mahatma Gandhi
8. “You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result” –Mahatma Gandhi
9. “The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children” – Mahatma Gandhi
10. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
11. “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” – Mahatma Gandhi
12. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” – Mahatma Gandhi
13. “As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.” –Mahatma Gandhi
14. “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” – Mahatma Gandhi
15. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
16. “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” – Mahatma Gandhi
17. “A ‘NO’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘YES’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.” – Mahatma Gandhi
18. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
19. “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” – Mahatma Gandhi
20. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Living Quotes
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller
You’re only here for a short visit. So don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. – Walter Hagen
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn
Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie
“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Khalil Gibran
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – The Buddha
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. – Lee Ann Womack
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – The Buddha
What’s done is done. – William Shakespeare
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa
Be gentle first with yourself. – Lama Yeshe
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Anonymous
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell
Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. – Buddhist proverb
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. – Brigitte Bardot
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cute Quotes for Girls
I don’t believe in love because I still don’t have you! – Author Unknown
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman
When the eyes meet and hold strongly they are bound to meet again. – Author Unknown
You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. – Author Unknown
Kiss that’s never tasted is forever and ever wasted. – Billie Holiday
Sometimes the perfect person for you is that whom you least expected to be. – Author Unknown
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. – Swedish Proverb
Two hearts, two minds, in time did find one love, one aim two paths the same. Hold fast…and love will last. – Author Unknown
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Even if courage fails you, tell that special someone that you love them in anyway possible. – Author Unknown
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde
Cute love is an attempt to change a piece of dream into reality. – Author Unknown
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein
Women are made to be loved, not understood. – Oscar Wilde
Great Inspiring Quotes
Let me inspire your day. Let me make it better and happier. Let me share with you some great inspiring quotes! :)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. ~ Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. ~ William Hazlitt
Death is more universal than life; Everyone dies but not everyone lives. ~ A. Sachs
Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. ~ David O. McKay
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life. ~ John Homer Miller
25 Happiness Quotes to Brighten Your Day
1. “Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.” –J. Donald Walters
2. “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” –Joseph Addison
3. “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” –Hosea Ballou
4. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
5. “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” –Unknown
6. “A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.” –George Santayana
7.“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” –Freya Stark
8. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
9. “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” –Alexandre Dumas
10. “There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” –Carl Jung
11. “When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.” –Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
12. “Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.” –David Steindl-Rast
13. “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
14. “If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.” – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
15. “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
16. “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” –Hugh Downs
17. “Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – James M. Barrie
18. “No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you’ll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood–any given mood–then that mental mood itself will follow.” –Kenneth Goode
19. “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.” – Anne Frank
20. “Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.” –Unknown
21. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.” –Martha Washington
22. “Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.”-Norman Vincent Peale
23. “People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” – Ramona L. Anderson
24. “Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.” –Epictetus
25. “Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.” –William Lyon Phelps