Age Quote

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Douglas MacArthur
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
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In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E.B. White
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The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier, New York Times, 9 October 1960
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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
Charles Dickens
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Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Author Unknown
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~Robert Southey, The Doctor
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
Satchel Paige
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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
Charles Dickens
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Jerry M. Wright
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
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Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
Caryn Leschen
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
Franklin Adams

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Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan Proverb
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There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fulheim
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. J.B. Priestly
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Author Unknown
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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

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By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. Author Unknown
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.
Author Unknown
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The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
Judith Regan
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. Mark Twain
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It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Asquith
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
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There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death. From the movie Out to Sea
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Thanks Janice!)
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The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
Edmund Waller
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
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Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
Astrid Alauda
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum
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An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954
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Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. G. Norman Collie
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You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.
Author Unknown
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T.S. Eliot
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
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I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.
Dave Barry
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm
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To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Amiel
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark
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Age swallows our childhood.
Jareb Teague
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First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you foret to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
Leo Rosenberg
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. Marty Bucella
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Aurelius Augustine
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
Author Unknown
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. Charles Lamb
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It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Autumn Within"
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler, Notebooks
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
Author Unknown
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958
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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
John Fischer
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Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
Attributed to John Wagner
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
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Old Time, who changes all below,
To wean men gently for the grave.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

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When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
Laurence Olivier
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As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.
Erma Bombeck

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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. Author Unknown
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
Author Unknown
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The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now."
David Grayson
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Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
Billy Casper, about golf's Senior Tour
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Author Unknown
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Jean Rostand
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.
Martin H. Fischer
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One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
Liz Smith
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
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In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
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Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
François La Rochefoucauld
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Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.
Author Unknown
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Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Allen
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I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast.
Author Unknown
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Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
Donald Justice, "Men at Forty"
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Age is a prison from which we cannot escape.
Morrow Bourne
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
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An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot

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I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.
Author Unknown
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Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken

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Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. Author Unknown
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. Chinese Proverb
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
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Age attacks when we least expect it.
Carrie Latet
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Old age ain't no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

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The last birthday that's any good is 23.
Andy Rooney
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
William Allen White
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Edward Young, Night Thoughts

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Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Attributed to John Wagner
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
Arnold Palmer
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. Jennifer Yane
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Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not.
Author Unknown
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.
Douglas MacArthur
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;
'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Alexander Pope
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.
Jason Love

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It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.
Vin Scully
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It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
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All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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The number one factor in aging is burdens. Your burdens, or how you carry them, make you old. Scarlett Bene
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The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
Li Po
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In dog years, I'm dead.
Author Unknown
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If youth but know,
And old age only could.
Henri Estienne
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Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.
Michel de Montaigne
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
Dave Barry
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The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
Mortimer Collins
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A man is as old as he's feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins
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When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.
Author Unknown
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. Ravensara Noite

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
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Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle

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The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S. McCandless
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
Bernard Berenson
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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Author Unknown
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.
Margaret Atwood
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P.G. Wodehouse
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
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You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
Lillian Gish
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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
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It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.
Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696
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Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had.
Carrie Latet
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo L. Black
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In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.
Holden Rinehart
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
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They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.
Rick Majerus
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We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
Bob Bowen
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
Edward Grey
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The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908

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Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.
Author Unknown
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I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
Phyllis Diller
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Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. Andre Maurois
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Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
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It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf

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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Jack Nicklaus
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You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary
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It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
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I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. Logan Pearsall Smith
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Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?"
William Habington
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Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you
Bennett Cerf
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I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
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There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughn
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
Jules Feiffer
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Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Margaret Willour
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu

Freedom Quote

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
Thucydides quotes (Ancient Greek historians and author, 460-404bc)
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“He who is brave is free.”
Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine
of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

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“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944)
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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)
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“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
ReadyWriter Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)
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“You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions”
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“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.”
William Glasser quotes ( , b.1925)
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“Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.”
Gen Michel Aoun quotes
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“There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and
powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903- 1977)
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“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.”
Ayn Rand quotes (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)
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“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer,
Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.
~Samuel Hendel
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition;
for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
~Thomas Paine
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of
free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. ~Charles de Gaulle
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be
daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical,
religious, social, and even political. ~Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the
freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the
natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard
yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of
people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
~Dick Cheney
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We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to
find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
~Robert J. McCracken
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the
fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D.
Roosevelt
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We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? ~Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan
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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley
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No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown
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Nations grown corrupt
Love bondage more than liberty;
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
~John Milton
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Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and
mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral
law.... ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two
Brothers, 1827

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Freedom means choosing your burden. ~Hephzibah Menuhin
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty
. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
~Eric Hoffer
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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown
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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you
decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Freedom is not enough.
~Lyndon B. Johnson
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the
subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~Woodrow Wilson
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of
our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William
Faulkner
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvani,
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of
darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of
forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
~Felix Frankfurter
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O Liberty...! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded?
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
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Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison
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Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~Francis Wright, 1828
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by
gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden
usurpations.
~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
~Will Rogers
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow
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Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
~William Cowper
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling
assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
~Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
~Daniel Webster
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy,
let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
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I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
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Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
~Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-
meaning but without understanding. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory
but new Masters. ~George Savile
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Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
~Baron de Montesquieu
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1905
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~Edmund Burke
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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate
themselves.
~Errico Malatesta, l'Agitazione, 18 June 1897

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Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown
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We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to
be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition
that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is
worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had
learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay
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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader.
1929-1968)
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“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be
educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the
educated are free”
Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)

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“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all”
Jacob Hornberger quotes
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“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to
do with one's freedom”
Andre Gide quotes (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for
literature, 1869-1951)
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“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)
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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for
Literature, 1913-1960)

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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will
and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to
choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.”
Walter Cronkite quotes (American Journalist well known for his role as a television
news anchor, b.1916)
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“Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences”
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“All good things are wild, and free.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
lstyd Bob Dylan quotes (American folksinger, b.1941)
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“A library is an arsenal of liberty.”
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes
my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight
in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine
of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
George Orwell quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)

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“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.”
santiz James Arthur Baldwin quotes (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)
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“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”
pjc1190 Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)
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“I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that

you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I

want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.”
shell7587 Joni Mitchell quotes

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“Everyone pushes a falling fence”
Chinese Proverbs quotes
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“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)

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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard quotes (Danish Philosopher and Theologian, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. 1813-1855)
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“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)

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“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the
Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who
can labor in freedom.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and
general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Robert A. Heinlein quotes (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)

Business Quote (A-Z)

[A] Do you believe so much in Alan Sugar that you'd give your wage to charity? If not, you're fired! Also quotes from Body Shop founder Anita Roddick.

[B] Microsoft founder Bill Gates thought 637Kb was all the memory you'd ever need. Tell that to my PC! Also quotes from Barclays Capital chief Bob Diamond, who could certainly afford a few!

[C] If you're an investment banker, you might be familiar with Charles Schwab and some other famous 'C' business people. If you buy birthday cards, you might be familiar with Clinton Lewin.

[D] Watched The Apprentice USA? Then you might be a fan of Donald Trump, the property billionaire. If you watch Dragons Den and are after business angel funding, then Doug Richard the technology entrepreneur might be a name you've encountered!

[E] Estee Lauder will be a familiar name if you're a fan of make up and things fragrant. British entrepreneur Emma Harrison is another successful businesswoman in this category.

[F] Fred Goodwin is in this category; if you work for RBS he's your boss. Cable chief Francesco Caio is also an 'F' business man.

[G] G's include fashion designer Gianni Versace - check out his page for a stylish quote. He famously said his jewellery was crap, but what of his quotes? Find out about Gerald Ratner

[H] Henry Ford II quotes, and other famous 'H' business people like high tech entrepreneur Hermann Hauser

[I] Ivan Massow, an entrepreneur, is in this category, whilst Iain Kirkwood is a business chief executive.

[J] The famous and successful businessman Jack Welch is a famous 'J' along with many other successful business people; whilst Jeff Randall is a journalist who talks about business.

[K] Ken Morrison of supermarket Morrisons fame is in this business section, whilst cricket fans will be familiar with the name Kerry Packer.

[L] Larry Page co-founder of internet phenomenon Google takes his place in this section, as does steel billionaries and Britain's richest man Lakshmi Mittal.

[M] Remember Martha Lane Fox, from a (last) minute ago? Mervyn King is a familiar name as Governor of the Bank of England.

[N] Nicola Horlick the so-called wonder woman of business is in this section. Rogue trader Nick Leeson was famous for bringing down Barings Bank.

[O] Oh no! No famous business O's!

[P] Philip Green, often pictured with his cigar, is the owner of BHS and pretty successful by any measure of wealth. Newspaper editor Piers Morgan knows a bit about business, too.

[Q] On cue, there is no famous 'Q'; air cargo shipping

[R] We were going to list Rachel Elnaugh, but then she had to sell up, so we've decided to fly high with Richard Branson, the owner of trains, planes and... mobile phones. Also Rudy Giuliani former mayor of the city that never sleeps, New York.

[S] Sergey Brin makes up the Google team. Now that was one business you'd have liked to buy into when they said 'we have an idea!' Also Marks and Spencers executive Stuart Rose

[T] Tony Robbins, the motivational speaker, is a famous businessman, is he your cup of 'T'? Tim Campbell became famous for winning business TV show The Apprentice.

[U] Alas, no famous 'U' business people... nothing to see here folks, move along...

[V] Victor Kiam is a famous American businessman in this category. Val Gooding is boss at health care company BUPA.

[W] Warren Buffett is one of famous 'W's on offer in this business section. Also chewing gum entrepreneur William Wrigley Jnr a household name for many!

[X] Know any famous businessmen or women with a name starting with 'X'? That's your challenge for today...

[Y] Why - there appear to be no famous 'Y's in this section

[Z] Zig Ziglar is a name that trips off the tongue, and closes our business section


INSPIRATIONAL BUSINESS QUOTE

Samuel Smiles: Inspirational Business Quote

A. P. Gouthey: Inspirational Business Quote
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.

Niccolo Machiavelli: Inspirational Business Quote
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Lee Iacocca: Inspirational Business Quote
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Stephen R. Covey: Inspirational Business Quote
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Kahlil Gibran: Inspirational Business Quote
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Edwin H. Stuart: Inspirational Business Quote
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Walter Dill Scott: Inspirational Business Quote
Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

Gabriel Heatter: Inspirational Business Quote
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year; a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Optimist Quote

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my
sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean quotes

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“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can
start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson quotes

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“Smile when it hurts most.”
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“May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love
waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your
tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.”
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“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a
while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
Alex Tan quotes
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“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that
every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow
vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to
be.”
John Heywood quotes (English Playwright and Poet, 1497-1580)
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“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never
think a negative thought.”
Peace Pilgrim quotes (American Teacher and Spiritual leader and Peace
Prophet, 1908-1981)

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“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
AzSilver Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and
Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can
be done rather than saying it can't be done.”
Bo Bennett quotes
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“May the pain you have known and the conflict you have
experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new
situation with courage and optimism.”
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“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is
droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854 -1900)

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“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the
pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is
twice the size it needs to be”
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“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist
is one who hopes they are.”
Chauncey Depew quotes
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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it
to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward quotes
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“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push.
A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things
are tough.”
Richard M. DeVos quotes
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller quotes
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“Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a
pessimist who is always right”

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“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness”
Mark Twain quotes
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“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use
being anything else”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch
eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.”
Robert Brault quotes
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“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist
stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”
Kahlil Gibran quotes
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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much;
if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist
because of will”
Antonio Gramsci quotes
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“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Susan J. Bissonette quotes

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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my
ship.”
Louisa May Alcott quotes
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“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the
optimist has a better time on the trip.”
Daniel L. Reardon quotes

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“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
William James quotes
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“A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a
philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the
clouds at all--he's walking on them.”
Leonard L. Levinson quotes

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“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
Colleen Wilcox quotes

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“A pessimist is an optimist with experience”
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't
pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life
can restore your faith in yourself.”
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“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Oscar Wilde quotes
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“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise
person is colorblind.”
Albert Schweitzer quotes
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“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.”
Nicholas Murray Butler quotes

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“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.
If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity
of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde quotes
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“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your
house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is
inconvenience.”
Robert Fulghum quotes

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“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the
possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your
weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.”
Paul J. Meyer quotes

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optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
Author: Don Marquis
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful,
including what is ugly.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human
destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am
optimistic as to man.
Author: Albert Camus
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Author: William Faulkner
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Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro
football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that
I'm going to complete every pass.
Author: Ron Jaworski
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent
working.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
Kundera
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Author: Reginald B. Mansell
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... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of
reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw,
the seed of death.
Author: Anne Perry
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I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best
for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I
meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.
I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
Author: Alice Potter
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because,
whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he
himself appears convinced.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to
Cape Canaveral.
Author: Anonymous
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any
more games by being anything else.
Author: Earl Weaver
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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Author: Paul Fussell
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A
smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are
tough.
Author: Richard M DeVos
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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the
gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It
should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Author: Robert Collier
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Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright
side of things.
Author: Anonymous
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Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Author: Walter Winchell
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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be
postponed.
Author: Kin Hubbard
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Author: Charled A. Beard
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Author: James Branch Cabell
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Author: Don Marquis
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Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-
brown glasses.
Author: Charles Eliot
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Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more
than a thousand pounds a year.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old
optimist.
Author: Mark Twain
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more
of it remains.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the
morning.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being
anything else.
Author: Winston Churchill
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think
a negative thought
~Peace Pilgrim
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.
~ Helen Keller
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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist
who is always right
~ Unknown
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a
philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the
clouds at all - he's walking on them.
~ Leonard Louis Levinson
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An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~ Susan J. Bissonette
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~The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present,
but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others
have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the
future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a
pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is
color-blind.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done
rather than saying it can't be done.
~ Bo Bennett
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness
~ Mark Twain
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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser
in case you thought optimism was dead.
~ Robert Brault
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at
the thorns, oblivious to the rose
~ Kahlil Gibran
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to
change; the realist adjusts the sails.
~ William Arthur Ward
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A
smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are
tough.
~ Richard M. DeVos
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being
anything else
~ Winston Churchill
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An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture,
whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is
one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something
else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights
prevail over the shadows.
~ Felix Adler
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I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he
starts.
~ Thomas A. Buckner
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
~ James Branch Caball
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects.
~ Norman Cousins
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
~ Havelock Ellis
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant-the digitalis of failure.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the
optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder
tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
~ Karl A. Menninger

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Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if
they're right.
~ James Reston
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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and
good people will be drawn to you.
~ Mary Lou Retton
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It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
~ Lucimar Santos De Lima
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An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.
~ Unknown
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Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
~ Mark Twain
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly
being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
~ George F. Will
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A
pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~ Bill Vaughan
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The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees
danger in every opportunity.
~ Winston Churchill
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May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced
give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation
with courage and optimism.
~ Unknown
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. "
~ Winston Churchill
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The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish
enough to believe the best is yet to come.
~ Peter Ustinov

Ability Quote

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )

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“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
Harry F. Banks quotes

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“We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt”


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“A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.”
Donald Kircher quotes

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“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
Rosalynn Carter quotes

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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz quotes (American Football coach, 1937-1980)

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“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )
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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin quotes (French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1848-1903)

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“The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal”


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“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”
Anthony Robbins quotes (American advisor to leaders)

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor
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Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach
1917-, American Basketball Coach
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
Arthur James Balfour
1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Agatha Christie
1891-1976, British Mystery Writer
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''
Oswald Chambers
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author
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Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

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“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

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“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”

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“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux quotes (French Historian, Novelist and Statesman, 1901-1976)

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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
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“The difference between one man and another is not mere ability - it is energy”
Thomas Arnold quotes

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“If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage”
Ashleigh Brilliant quotes (English Author and Cartoonist, b.1933)
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“Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.”
Charles Luckman quotes (US architect and industrialist 1910-1999)

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“The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
American Hockey Player
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce
American soldier
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman

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“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. quotes
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“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
George Allen quotes (American football Coach. Noted for his hard-driving work ethic. 1922-1990)

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“The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”
Alexander Haig quotes (American General, b.1924)
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“Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.”
Nitin Nohria quotes

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“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
Philemon Corrie Ten Boom quotes (Dutch Evangelist , 1892-1983)

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“The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.”
Jack Brymer quotes

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“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)

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“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Laurence J. Peter
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The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Earl Pitts
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
John G. Pollard
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
John Ruskin

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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce”
Virginia Gildersleeve quotes
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“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
Charles M. Schulz quotes (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

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“Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture”
John Abbott quotes

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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

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“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
Rene Descartes quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)

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“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.”
Charles M. Schwab quotes (American industrialist 1862-1939)

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“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
John Wooden quotes (American , b.1910)

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“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room”
Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

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“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
John Wooden quotes (American , b.1910)