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Inspirational Quotations #727

March 11, 2018 By Nagesh Belludi

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Don’t abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
—E. W. Howe (American Novelist)

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher)

There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
—Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher, Theologian)

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
—Erica Jong (American Novelist)

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
—Samuel Lover (Irish Songwriter)

Trust not him that hath once broken faith; he who betrayed thee once, will betray thee again.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat is crucial to the future of an enterprise.
—Andrew Grove (Hungarian-born American Businessperson)

It is not the amount of trade that makes the man poor or rich, but honest working and dealing.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
—Joseph Campbell

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Human nature is so constituted that is we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
—Thomas Aquinas (Italian Catholic Priest)

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.
—Helena Blavatsky (Ukrainian-born American Theosophist)

He who goes no further than bare justice, stops at the beginning of virtue.
—Hugh Blair (Scottish Clergyman)

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