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Inspirational Quotations #278

June 28, 2009 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living
and your belief will help create the fact.
— William James

To be wronged is nothing,
unless you continue to remember it.
— Confucius

In the end we’ll remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Basically, I no longer work for anything
but the sensation I have while working.
— Alberto Giacometti

Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
— Friedrich Schiller

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
— Isaac Newton

Dirt is matter out of place.
Weed is a plant out of place.
Nuisance is action out of place.
Even those things, acts or words which are normally good
and useful become bad, useless and even harmful when
they are out of place, time and circumstance.
A knowledge of this fact is an essential part of wisdom.
— Swami Krishnananda

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with certain alienated majesty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A witty saying proves nothing.
— Voltaire

Learn that the present hour alone is man’s.
— Samuel Johnson

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