Famous Quotes

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Juvenal, Satires:

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman:

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Andrew Brown:

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Italian Proverb:

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Sinclair Lewis:

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Joseph P Kennedy:

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

S. I. Hayakawa:

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Carl Jung:

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963:

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

George Eliot:

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Eric Hoffer:

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Benjamin Disraeli:

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Mary Lyon:

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

La Rochefoucauld:

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.