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Inspirational Quotations #153

January 22, 2007 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
—Thomas Szasz (Hungarian Psychiatrist)

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
—William Blake (English Poet)

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
—Paul Vixie (American Scientist)

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith.
—August Wilhelm Schlegel

Just because something is tradition doesn’t make it right.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
—Sam Keen

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
—Malcolm Muggeridge (English Journalist)

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
—Peter Drucker (Austrian-born Management Consultant)

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s gardens.
—Douglas William Jerrold (English Dramatist)

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