Words of Wisdom
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“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”
– Jonas Salk
“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.”
– Anna Freud
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.” – Rene Descartes
“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.” – Charles Darwin
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.” – Mark Twain
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” – John le Carre
“Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.”
– Alan Alda
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
– Vince Lombardi
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.” – D. H. Lawrence
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
– Jane Austen
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” – Rene Descartes
“Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.” – Jean de la Fontaine
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
– William James
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.” – John Naisbitt
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” – Emily Dickinson
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“Any idiot can face a crisis. It’s the day-to-day living that wears you out.”
– Anton Chekhov