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Inspirational Quotations #740

June 10, 2018 By Nagesh Belludi

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
—Vernon Howard

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. it is a mental cancer.
—B. C. Forbes (Scottish-born American Journalist)

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
—Malcolm X (American Muslim Religious Leader)

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
—George Jean Nathan (American Drama Critic)

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
—Washington Irving (American Author)

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
—Edward R. Murrow (American Journalist)

The gambler is a moral suicide.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

We create our fate every day … most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
—Henry Miller (American Novelist)

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
—William F. Buckley, Jr. (American TV Personality)

Science is what you know, philosophy what you don’t know.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement; desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valor that men hold in such high esteem.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
—Satchel Paige

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
—John D. Rockefeller (American Businessperson)

If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.
—Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) (American Columnist)

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