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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
- Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
- Ralph Charell
- One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.
- Emil Zatopek
- He who laughs, lasts!
- Mary Pettibone Poole
- Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
- James Thorpe (1888 - 1953)
- If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
- Dean Martin
- I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.
- Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
- Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
- Henry J. Tillman
- I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
- Robert Bakker, paleontologist
- I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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