Inspirational Quotations #440

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
* Henry Ward Beecher

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn of falsehoods.
* Robert A. Heinlein

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
* Marquis de Sade

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
* Thomas Jefferson

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
* Turkish Proverb

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
* Thomas Edison

Doing what is right isn’t the problem; it’s knowing what is right.
* Lyndon B. Johnson

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
* Henry Ward Beecher

We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring.
* Hillary Rodham Clinton

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
* William James

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