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Inspirational Quotations #513

February 2, 2014 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
—W. E. B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Activist)

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
—John Dryden (English Poet)

Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.
—Catherine Deneuve (French Actor)

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk… it’s all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
—Arthur Rubinstein (Polish-born American Composer)

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
—John Foster Dulles (American Lawyer)

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Time is the greatest of all tyrants. As we go on toward age, he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength, and features.
—John Foster Dulles (American Lawyer)

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