Quotations
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One of these Quotes will hit the spot. Give you inner Strength to Carry on when the Days are hard and long. Uplifting.
There are 57 quotations in this collection:
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
- Henry Ford
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
- E B White
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E B White
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Live truth instead of professing it.
- Elbert Hubbard
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
- Elbert Hubbard
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
- Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
- Elbert Hubbard
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
- Eliza Farnham
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
- Ella Wilcox
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
- Ella Wilcox
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
- Ella Wilcox
Underwear is such an emotional thing.
- Elle MacPherson
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
- Elsa Schiapirelli
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
- Isaac Asimov
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
- Isaac Asimov
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
- Aesop
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
- Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence.
- Abigail Adams
What you do speaks
so loud that I cannot
hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
