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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807
- Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
- William Raspberry
- That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
- If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
- Shantideva
- The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
- In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
- Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
- Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
- They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
- Kanye West
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
- Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
- But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
- I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.
- Joyce Grenfell
- We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
- Ethel Barrett
- Hope is necessary in every condition.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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