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Inspirational Quotations #237

September 7, 2008 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Those who say a thing cannot be done should not stand in the way of those who are doing it.
— Unknown

Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
— W. Somerset Maugham

No one had ever had an idea in a dress suit.
— Frederick Banting

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
— Oscar Wilde

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone,
and the wisest man needs advice.
— Zoroaster

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is just a mirror,
and what you see out there,
you must first see inside of you.
— Wally Amos

Wisdom is knowing what to do next,
skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
— David Starr Jordan

Men do not fail; they give up trying.
— Elihu Root

You become what you think about.
— Earl Nightingale

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