Saturday 25 February 2017

Quote Worthy

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. - Epictetus

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it – so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. - Walt Disney

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. - Oscar Wilde

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. - Eric Liddell

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. - George R.R. Martin

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau

Wit must be foiled by wit, cut a diamond with a diamond. - William Congreve

We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. - Rick Warren

The covetous man is ever in want. - Horace

More quotes Here, and the book Quote Worthy

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