My Favourite Quotes - IV

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
-- Confucius

"While there's life, there's hope."
--Cicero

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece."
--Ralph Charell

"If you cant get through the mountain, go around it. If you cant go around it, go over it. If you cant go over it, sit down and ask yourself if getting to the other side is all that important. If it is, set about digging a tunnel."
--Anonymous

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."
--Phillip C.Mcgraw

"Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others."
--Anonymous

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
--Emiliano Zapata

"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned."
-- Gotama Buddha

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life."
-- Anna Quindlen

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
-- Sir Francis Bacon

"Study the past if you would define the future."
--Confucius

"Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down."
--Wilson Mizner

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"
--Theodore Roosevelt

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
-- Confucius

"Before you embark on the journey of revenge; dig two graves"
-- Confucius

"The worst sin - perhaps the only sin a person can commit, is to be joyless."
-- Dorothy.L.Sayers

"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."
-- Robert Sternberg

"One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started."
--Emil Zatopek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Zapotek)

"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
--Confucius