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Inspirational Quotations #540

August 10, 2014 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
—Don Marquis (American Humorist)

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
—Jean de La Bruyere

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
—Horace Mann (American Educator)

We conquer by continuing.
—George Matheson (Scottish Theologian)

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.”
—Sydney J. Harris (American Journalist)

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
—Franz Kafka (Austrian Novelist)

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death’s hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.
—David Seltzer (American Screenwriter)

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead—big possibilities. Like the song says, “We’ve just begun.”
—Bruce Lee (Hong-Kong-born American Sportsperson)

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