Awesome Quotes and Sayings On The Quote For The Day
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Well done is better than well said.
~Benjamin Franklin
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
~Dutch Proverb
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
~Francis Bacon
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
~Thomas Carlyle
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
~Italian Proverb
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~Joan Didion
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
~George-Louis de Buffon
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
~Charles Wagner
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
~Baltasar Gracián
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
~Marcus Aurelius
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy Adams
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
~Confucius
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
~Sydney J. Harris
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
~Michel de Montaigne
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
~Arnold Glasow
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
~William J.H. Boetcker
Have patience, my friend, have patience;
For Rome wasn’t built in a day!
You wear yourself out for nothing
In many and many a way!
Why are you nervous and fretty
When things do not move along fast;
Why let yourself get excited
Over things that will soon be past?~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
~J.B. Priestley
