Monday, March 24, 2008

My Favourite Quotes - 2

"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
-- Confucius.

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."
--Danny Kaye

"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up."
-- Beverly Sills

"I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself."
-- Margaret Cho

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous"
-- Confucius

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."
-- George Jackson

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
-- Pablo Picasso

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
-- Sir Richard Steele

"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it."
-- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"He, who by good deeds covers the evil he has done, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds."
-- Buddha

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
-- George Burns

"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
-- Ken Keyes Jr.

"Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away."
--Aitken Roshi

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."
-- Confucius
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
-- George Washington

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
–- Charles Darwin

"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
-- Donald Trump

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