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Inspirational Quotations #440

August 5, 2012 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

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

We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton (American Head of State)

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
—William James (American Philosopher)

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 (American Protestant Clergyman)

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

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 (American Protestant Clergyman)

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 (French Political leader)

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn of falsehoods.
—Robert A. Heinlein (American Novelist)

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