Daily Quotes And Sayings – Thoughts For Every Day

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“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”
– Honore de Balzac

“If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
– Isaac Newton

“Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing.”
– J.E de Goncourt

“I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.”
– James Gordon Bennett

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru

“The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man there was, tho’ some did count him mad / The more he cast away, the more he had.”
– John Bunyan

“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”
– John D.R.

“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.”
– John P. Grier

“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”
– John Quincy Adams

“The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.”
– John Quincy Adams

“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
– Jonathan Swift

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
– Joseph Addison

“Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert

“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
– Josh Billings

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
– Lao Tzu

“He who is contented is rich.”
– Lao Tzu

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”
– Lao-Tzu

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.”
– Lionel Abe

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Of all nature‘s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul’s yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart.”
– Margaret Jackson

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain

“Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.”
– Mark Twain

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