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Inspirational Quotations #404

November 27, 2011 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

The more you speak of yourself, the more likely you are to lie.
—Johann Jacob Zimmermann (German Nonconformist Theologian)

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
—John Loengard

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

He turns not back who is bound to a star.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
—H. Norman Schwarzkopf (American Military Leader)

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
—Erich Fromm (German Psychologist)

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
—Saul Bellow (Canadian-born American Novelist)

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
—E. M. Forster (English Novelist)

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
—Laurence Sterne (Irish Anglican Novelist)

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.
—Carl Zuckmayer (German Playwright)

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
—Eddie Rickenbacker (American Military Leader)

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