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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Quick Albert Einstein Quote
„I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” – Albert Einstein
Progress Quotes
- “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein
- “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama
- “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” – Ronald Reagan
- “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” – Jim Rohn
- “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn
- “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy
- “The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy
- “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” – C. S. Lewis
- “It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Failure Quotes
- “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Failure is an event, never a person.” – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
- “The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works.” – William Strong
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
- “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
- “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
- “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert Schuller
- “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles F. Kettering
- “One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.” – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- “A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.” – Elmer G. Letterman
- “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
J. D. Salinger Quotes
- “All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
- “An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
- “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
- “He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”
- “How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?”
- “How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.”
- “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
- “I don’t even like old cars. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
- “I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
- “I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
- “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
- “I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
- “I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
- “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”
- “If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.”
- “It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it.”
- “It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”
- “Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.”
- “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
- “People never believe you.”
Mae West Quotes
- “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”
- “A hard man is good to find.”
- “A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
- “A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.”
- “A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
- “A man’s kiss is his signature.”
- “A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.”
- “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
- “An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”
- “Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.”
- “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
- “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
- “Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.”
- “Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
- “Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.”
- “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.”
- “Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”
- “He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
- “He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”