Quotes

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  • The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. – Ferdinand Foch

  • Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Nietzsche

  • Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for…

  • An individual’s self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behaviour: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. – Joyce Brothers

  • One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, “How much did he leave?” His friend responded, “He left it all.” – Stephen R. Covey

  • The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner

  • Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. – Edward Abbey

  • The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – Confucius

  • Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

  • The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau

  • I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

  • Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. – Anton Chekhov