Quotations Thread

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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Henry Moore


For those who make new year resolutions

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There comes a time in every man's life, when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation...

W.C. Fields

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Daniel Defoe

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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

J. G. Holland

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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A ship in harbor is safe. But that is not what ships are built for.

John A. Shedd, Salt from my attic, 1928

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

J. G. Holland

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Meeting between Chaplin and Einstein

- "What I admire most about your art", Albert Einstein said, "is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet ... the world understands you."

- "It's true", replies Chaplin. "But your fame is even greater: the world admires you, when nobody understands you. "