Quotes 1 till 20 of 1714.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
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A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
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An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
The Teahouse of the August Moon act I, scene i, p. 6 -
A child miseducated is a child lost.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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Don't mistake activity for achievement.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
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