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Inspirational Quotations #586

June 28, 2015 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
—Thomas Mann (German Novelist)

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
—Epictetus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same…You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
—Juvenal (Roman Poet)

There is no reality except the one contained within us.
—Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Poet)

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
—Michael Korda

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
—Mary Wollstonecraft (British Children’s Books Writer)

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

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