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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
- If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), (attributed)
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell (1937 - )
- When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006
- If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
- There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.
- Tina Fey, Max 60 Seconds, 2008
- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
- Amy Dacyczyn
- What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
- Jim Beggs
- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
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