Archives for December 2013

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health; and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
—George Goodman (American Economist)

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
—Charles A. Garfield

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.
—The Dhammapada (Buddhist Anthology of Verses)

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
—Doris Lessing (British Novelist, Poet)

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
—Beryl Markham (British-born Kenyan Aviator)

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.
—George Goodman (American Economist)

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
—Unknown

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
—William Ewart Gladstone (British Head of State)

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
—Johann Gottfried Herder (German Lutheran Philosopher)

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won’t in the end affirm or deny anything.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
—Jean Anouilh

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
—Gail Sheehy (American Journalist)

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
—Marquis de Sade (French Political leader)

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet)

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
—Jean-Paul Sartre (French Philosopher)

A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer (Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer)

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
—William McKinley (American Head of State)

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often he has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
—Harvey Samuel Firestone (American Businessperson)

It is wonderful what strength and boldness of purpose and energy will come from the feeling that we are in the way of duty.
—John Foster Dulles (American Lawyer)

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (English Political leader)