Quotes!

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The quotes I really liked

• Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. -- Jose Marti
  
• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -- Thomas H. Huxley
  
• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown
  
• There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein
  
• We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. -- Woodrow Wilson
  
• Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life. -- Jim Rohn
  
• I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. -- Ani DiFranco
  
• Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. -- Richard Bach
  
• Perhaps to our senses things offer only their rejections. Perfume is what flowers throw away. -- Paul Valery
  
• Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. -- Viktor Frankl
  
• For every promise you make to others, keep one to yourself. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
  
• I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself. -- Oprah Winfrey
  
• Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The other neat quotes

• Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart
  
• When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' -- Sydney J. Harris
  
• There is no slavery but ignorance. -- Denis Waitley
  
• None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. -- Andrew Jackson
  
• There is an ancient script that says, ‘He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.’ But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be! -- Jim Rohn
  
• Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. -- Dag Hammerskjold
  
• It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear. -- James Ramsey Ullman
  
• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. -- Quentin Crisp
  
• Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. -- Jim Horning
  
• If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work. -- John Alejandro King
  
• There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. -- Franklin P. Adams
  
• Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. -- Robert Orben
  
• Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. -- Putt's Law
  
• Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. -- Evan Esar
  
• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. -- Will Rogers
  
• People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. -- Russell Baker
  
• When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. -- Bernard Bailey
  
• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. -- Madonna
  
• It is easy to sit up and take notice, what is difficult is getting up and taking action. -- Honore de Balzac
  
• I shut my eyes in order to see. -- Paul Gauquin
  
• There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. -- Edmund Burke
  
• Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. -- Charles F. Kettering
  
• Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never really tried. -- Robyn Allan
  
• We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  
• The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. -- John Quincy Adams
  
• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? -- Dale Carnegie
  
• Faith is not making religious-sounding noises in the daytime. It is asking your inmost self questions at night-and then getting up and going to work. -- Mary Jane Irion
  
• Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. -- Joseph Addison
  
• Inches make champions. -- Vince Lombardi
  
• Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn't ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. -- Lin Yutang
  
• It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life. -- Hugh Prather
  
• How long the sun and moon have been turning day and night, just to spend one night with You! -- Rumi
  
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  
• Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze. -- Horace