Quotations
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“It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever decision has been made before may legally be made again, and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.”
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition.”
Alexander Smith
Scottish Poet
“We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.”
Rudolf Steiner
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with grace and dignity,
making the best of circumstances.”
Aristotle
Philosopher
“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”
“The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”
Isaac Newton
English Scientist
“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely, in great aims and in small I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”
Charles Dickens
English Author
“Wonderous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, and preserve it longer than the sullen and sad. ”
Thomas Carlyle
British Historian
“If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and the understanding of many things.”
Vincent Van Gogh
French Artist
“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Painter
“In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon
achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a
more exalted simplicity.”
John Burroughs
American Naturalist and Essayist
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
American Advisor to Presidents
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
Thomas Aquinas
Italian Philosopher
“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
“Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision.
Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.”
John C. Maxwell
American Clergyman
“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies - who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its roots, and in that freedom bold.”
William Wordsworth
Poet
“One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago…but the image of art that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual –
that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and
in its original fulness.”
George Edward Woodberry
American Poet
“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can’t complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humor, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness
and gentleness.”
Anne Bronte
English Author
“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
Washington Irving
American Short Story Writer
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
American Philosopher
“It is the mark of a good action when it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Novelist
“We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation, for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
Alfred North Whitehead
English Mathematician and Philosopher
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in right using of strength…which carries up the
most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
Henry Beecher Ward
American Clergyman
