Quotes for Better Life (4)
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Orison Sweet Marden
Many a man has finally succeeded
- Only because he has failed after repeated efforts.
If he had never met defeat, he would never have know any great victory.
Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a group of people can change the world.
Indeed that is all that ever has.
G. Randolf
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave,
and impossible to forget.
Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity,
and in cold weather becomes frozen:
even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There are no mistakes, no coincidences.
All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Frances Willard
Character is habit crystalised.
Samuel Ullman
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
Lin Yntang
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what we have
and being able to lose all desire for what is beyond our reach.
Mark Twain
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did,
I said : I didn't know
Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend
Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Chris Evert
You've got to take the initiative and play your game.
In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
· The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worthwhile,
that costs the least and does the most is just a pleasant smile.
· The fairest rose in the garden of life is the fellowship of friends.
Time but glorifies its beauty with a fragrance that never ends
· You can be upset because rosebushes have thorns
Or you can rejoice because thornbushes have roses.
· The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he has.
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A.M. Alvin Karyadi <karyadi@hotmail.com>