Thursday 30 June 2011

Quote Worthy


Don’t be proud of what you know, and don’t be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. - Barbara De Angelis

Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect. - Marvin J. Ashton 

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness. - Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. - Marcus Aurelius

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. - Norman Cousins 

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault. First, you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. - Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. - Stewart E. White 

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre De Coubertin

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

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