Miscellaneous Quotes And Sayings On Various Subjects

by allinspiration.com

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ”
– Socrates

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. ”
– Solomon ibn Gabirol

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ”
– Steve Jobs

“All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. ”
– T.E. Lawrence

“Acting, I love it and I feel that I’m good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I’m playing guitar and singing.”
– Taryn Manning

“Acting doesn’t feel good. It’s not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it’s not.”
– Tea Leoni

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ”
– Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. ”
– Thomas Carlyle

“To rejoice in another’s prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another’s grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. ”
– Thomas Edwards

“Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping. ”
– Thomas Hood

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ”
– Thornton Wilder

“I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.”
– Tom Petty

“He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. ”
– Vince Lombardi

“There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don’t know what else, what can we say if once the hidden forces of sympathy and love have been roused in us? And though it may be that we cannot argue against the reasoning sentiment and to act from impulse, one would almost conclude that some people have cauterized certain sensitive nerves within them, especially those which, combined, are called conscience. Well, I pity those people; they travel through life without compass, in my opinion.”
– Vincent van Gogh

“Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself. ”
– William Croswell Doane

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. ”
– William James

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ”
– William Shakespeare

“No legacy is so rich as honesty. ”
– William Shakespeare

“A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.”
– William Shakespeare

“Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong. ”
– William Thackeray

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