Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Opportunity

The people that really succeed in the world are the people who look for the circumstances they want. And, if they can't find them, they make them. The lure of the distant and the difficult can be deceptive. The great opportunity in your life is where you are right now. Properly perceived, every situation can become an opportunity for you. Your destiny isn't a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice. It's not something you wait for, but rather something you achieve with effort. You're surrounded by opportunity, but things won't turn up in this world until you turn them up.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Lily Tomlin

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name
for ignorance.

G.K. Chesterton The Speaker, 12/15/00

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Violence

All important issues are decided by violence. An alternative way of stating
this corollary is: Any issue not worth defending violently is not considered
important.

Iben Browning - Past and Future History

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Sex

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

M.C. Reed

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Serenity

Serenity isn't freedom from the storm, but peace within the storm.

Author Unknown

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Bad vs Good

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by
one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke 1729-1797 - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, 1770

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Prejudice

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied
exemption from all prejudice.

William Hazlitt

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Science

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above
everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by
withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars
who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the
settled disciplines.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Thinking

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
appearance of being right...Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine - Common Sense

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Errors

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Charles Babbage

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Capitalists

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few
capitalists.

G. K. Chesterton - The Uses of Diversity, 1921

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - English

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

"Ma" Ferguson - Governor of Texas

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Courage

We have more respect for a man who robs boldly on the highway, than for a
fellow who jumps out of a ditch, and knocks you down behind your back.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always
respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Samuel Johnson - 1709-1784 Boswell, Life

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Tragedies

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The
other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Sail

I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as
in what direction we are moving; To reach the port of heaven, we must sail
sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not
drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Conservative

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Leo C. Rosten

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Practice

Practice random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of beauty.

Author Unknown

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Peace

Let him who wishes for peace prepare for war.

Vegetius

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Life

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Freeman Dyson

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Hard

It's supposed to be hard; if it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.

Tom Hanks - A League of Their Own

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Diffusion of Knowledge

The most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of
knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the
preservation of freedom and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson - letter to George Wythe, August, 1786

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Murder

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants
to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard ShawMaxims for Revolutionists, 1903

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Truth

Wit can stand its ground against Truth only a little while.

Samuel Johnson Swift (Lives of the Poets)

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Statistics

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Perception

Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of
reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this
subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level;
and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise.

- Thomas Reid (1710–1796), Scottish leading philosopher, opponent of Hume. Essay II, ch. xv, p. 241, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. (1969)

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Progress

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who
cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana 1863-1952

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Hate

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American educator

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Your Right

If you say you can, or if you say you can't, you're right.

Cato the Elder

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - The Road Less Travelled

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost - From "The Road Less Travelled"

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Chess

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and
of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each
other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be
champion.

Anatol Rapoport


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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Think

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B. F. Skinner

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - God

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.

Yiddish proverb

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Experience

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Inferior

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Technology

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
humanity.

Albert Einstein

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Good and Evil

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil
passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political
parties but right through every human heart and all human hearts.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago


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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Temptation

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

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Quotes and Sayings - Success to Succeed

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that
one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while
trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American educator

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Quotes - Famous Quotes - Quote of the Day - Possible

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Italian Proverb

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"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light."
"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself
constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a
man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is
to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry L. Stimson

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Keep balance

Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his
balance.

Pope John Paul II

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Listen

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Marge Piercy

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Happiness

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what
makes us feel fulfilled.

Dr. Benjamin Spock

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are
helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly.
They not only test the fibre of a character, but
trengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents
a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and
weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and
stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

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"We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God."

Chief Joseph


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Attractive

For attractive lips, speak words of
kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the
good in people. For a slim figure, share
your food with the hungry. For beautiful
hair, let a child run his or her fingers
through it once a day. For poise, walk with
the knowledge that you'll never walk alone.

Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
British Actress


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Pain

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Publilius Syrus

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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the
test first, the lesson afterwards."

Vernon Sanders Law

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Life and death

"Life is like a wave that rolls into shore.Then it floats back and disappears
into the greater sea,until it peaks and comes up again with even greater
strength. Life and death are like that."

Ani Windhorse Woman

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"Take time to laugh. It is the music of the soul."

Mickel De Montaigne

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Pressure

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

Tommy Lasorda American Baseball Manager

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"If you were going to die soon and had only onephone call you could make, who would you call andwhat would you say? ...And why are you waiting?"

Stephen Levine

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"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam;I looked into
the soul of the boy next to me."

Woody Allen


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Once a thought becomes a rumour and a rumour becomes an idea, the idea
becomes a possibility, until the possibility becomes ... reality!

Michael Sadler


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Right and wrong

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be
true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am
bound to live by the light that I have. I
must stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right, and part
with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

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Dreams

"Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things
which escape the who dream only at night."

Edgar Allen Poe

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Fighting

"When two elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled."

African proverb

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"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the
weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

George Washington Carver

Children

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have
never failed to imitate them..”

James Arthur Baldwin

Ideas

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Pauling (1901-1994) American Chemist

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Age

I believe that age is just a series of numbers. When I turned 80, I
realized that I was just half of 160 and when I make that, I'll be
half of 320. I want you to stick around and find out! Like wine, you
should be able to improve with age. Nothing in medical science says
the body falls apart after 40."

Jack LaLanne, Fit and 90 years young

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Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

– Jacob Braude

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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.- Colin Powell

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Pain is temporary, pride is forever.

- Unknown

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Arthur Ashe
(1943-1993, American tennis player)