Browsing Quotes, page 101
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In the long run every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.
Speaker: EpictetusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance for joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days into a hellish turmoil.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Much of what we call evil… can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
Speaker: Michel de MontaignePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them – and forgetting them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every ailment under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try to find it;
If there be none, never mind it.Speaker: Mother GoosePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Oh, to confront night, storms, hunger,
Ridicule, accident, rebuffs as the trees and animals do.Speaker: Walt WhitmanPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not miserable to be blind, it is only miserable not to be able to endure blindness.
Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A certain comfortable security, a certain profound inner peace, a kind of happy numbness, soothes the nerves of the human animal when absorbed in his allotted task.
Speaker: John Cowper PowysPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Speaker: Alfred TennysonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going round and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells. I find that fifty percent of my worries vanishes once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another forty percent usually vanishes once I start to carry out that decision.
Speaker: Galen LitchfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.
Speaker: Charles KetteringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labor of thinking.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Confusion is the chief cause of worry… I have found that if a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.
Speaker: Herbert G. HawkesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.Speaker: Rudyard KiplingPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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