“If you reach for a star, you might not get one. But you won’t come up with a hand full of mud either”
— Leo Burnett
“Never be haughty to the humble. Never be humble to the haughty.”
— Jefferson Davis
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
–G.B. Shaw
“The tide is high but I’m holding on.”
–Blondie
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
– Will Rogers.
“But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”
“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”
Andrew Marvell
“Learn to drink coffee without sugar.”
“You’re better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than getting there too early all the time.”
“Don’t expect too much from the company you work for, even if it’s a good company.”
–Andy Rooney
“If you would take, you must first give. This is the beginning of intelligence.”
— Tao Te King
“Being able to do something well is one of life’s great joys.”
— Frank Tyger
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
— Dr. Seuss
“It’s hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.”
Lisa Randall
“The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.”
— William Feather
“We are all imbued with the love of praise.”
— Henry Fielding
“I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy as a cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
Mae West
“No one agrees with other people’s opinions, they merely agree with their own opinion expressed by somebody else.”
— Sydney Tremayne
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
— Henry Ford
“Consider the mosquito. He sings at his work and he keeps everlastingly at it. The only way to stop him is to kill him.”
— JT Fisher
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain
“Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
— Coco Chanel
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”
— Ben Franklin
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
–Terry Pratchett
“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.”
Winston Churchill
“But there’s also no doubt that many people, with fewer advantages than you, have overcome them to achieve much greater things”
“One of the greatest follies of our culture is the notion that possessions depict financial progress in your life.”
— Shilpan
“If you figure out money, life is incredibly easy. If you don’t, life is insanely hard.”
“Eeeeehehehe! We’re on the list, bitches!!!”
“I don’t think anything is ever quite the same to us after we are dead.”
— Don Marquis
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
Katharine Hepburn
“The purpose in life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
–Rainer Maria Rilke
“It ain’t too hard to get along with somebody else’s troubles.”
–Steve Goodman
“In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?”
–Euripides
“Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.”
Groucho Marx
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
–Isaac Asimov
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”
– John Allen Paulos.
“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.”
— Ralph Marston
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
“In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.”
— Shing Xiong.
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
— Jack Canfield
“I am much inclined to live from my rucksack and let my trousers fray as they like.”
— Herman Hesse
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.”
— Emerson
“I’ve had such a wonderful life. I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
— Colette
“Trespassers kindly remember to close the gate.”
— Sign on an Irish gate
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