The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
#quotes #abraham-lincoln #silence

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that. ~Bill Hicks
#quotes #bill-hicks #comedy

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
#quotes #richard-asher #haematology #medicine

An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
#proverbs #quotations

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#quotes #yann-arthus-bertrand #life #success

Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
#quotes #nick-flynn #self #universe #ego

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
#quotes #eugene-field #happiness #hardship

If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #friendship

There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
#quotes #bill-burr #brotherhood #ohio

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
#quotes #confucius #motivation #desire #success

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
#proverbs #mexican-proverbs #failure

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
#quotes #pete-sampras #success

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
#quotes #james-thurber #truth #human

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
#quotes #sherwood-anderson #failure #success

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
#quotes #george-mcgovern #united-states

The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
#quotes #peter-o-toole #50s #60s

I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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