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Inspirational Quotations #529

May 25, 2014 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)

I hate to lose more than I love to win.
—Jimmy Connors (American Sportsperson)

Look back, and smile at perils past.
—Walter Scott (Scottish Novelist)

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
—William Temple

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
—Philip Roth (American Novelist)

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
—Philip Roth (American Novelist)

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
—John Henry Newman (British Catholic Clergyman)

For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (American Jurist)

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
—Konrad Adenauer (German Head of State)

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
—Walter Scott (Scottish Novelist)

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
—Richard Branson (British Entrepreneur)

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
—Clarence Darrow (American Lawyer)

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