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Back Quotes

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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady Gaga

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady Gaga

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
Drew Barrymore

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Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin Powell

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Brian Tracy

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
George W. Bush

I'll be back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Charlie Chaplin

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
Mike Tyson

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Charles de Gaulle

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
Warren Buffett

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
Warren Buffett

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
Wayne Dyer

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.
Mitch Hedberg

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Steven Wright

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Steven Wright

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
Steven Wright

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Vince Lombardi

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Eminem

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt


The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan

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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus Aurelius

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Norman Vincent Peale

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Forgiveness Quotes

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Alexander Chase

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
Alexander Chase

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
Alexander Chase

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Desmond Tutu

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes


Broken Quotes

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The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T. E. Kalem

The heart will break, but broken live on.
Lord Byron

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Bronte

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
James Larkin

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells


The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Xun Zi

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
Nicolas Roeg

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
Charles Simeon

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.
John Hume

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams


Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?
Brian Perkins

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
Antonio Porchia

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.
Rupert Grint



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Broken Quotes

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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett

Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.
Frank Bruno

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
Sarah McLachlan

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Don't fix what's not broken.
Robert Atkins

Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Bertolt Brecht

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus

For each book, the time is also broken up.
George Stephen

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
Sally Field

I've never had my heart broken.
Sally Field

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Cal Thomas

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Travis Tritt

Love is a promise delivered already broken.
Steve Martin

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Frederick William Robertson

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
Billie Joe Armstrong


The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
Edouard Manet



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Top 10 Break Up Quotes for Positive Thinking

Pressure Quotes

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A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
David R. Brower

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
Michael Bay

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
Donna Rice

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Arthur Baer

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
Richard Pryor

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.
Lee Haney

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.
Virginia Foxx

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Mary Pipher

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Sebastian Coe

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.
Sibel Edmonds

And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.
Jim Bolger

And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure.
Vivian Campbell

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.
Elvis Stojko

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.
Hjalmar Schacht

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
Imran Khan

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.
David Gower

As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.
Daniela Hantuchova

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Sophocles Quotes

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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
Sophocles

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Sophocles

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Sophocles

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Sophocles

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles

When trouble ends even troubles please.
Sophocles

Who seeks shall find.
Sophocles

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
Sophocles

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Sophocles

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
Sophocles

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Sophocles

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
Sophocles

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Sophocles

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Sophocles

Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles

Sophocles Quotes

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Sophocles

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Sophocles

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Sophocles

There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Sophocles

There is a time when even justice brings harm.
Sophocles

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Sophocles

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles

There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Sophocles

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles

There is no success without hardship.
Sophocles

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
Sophocles

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
Sophocles

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Sophocles

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
Sophocles

To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles

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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Sophocles

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Sophocles

Not even Ares battles against necessity.
Sophocles

Not even old age knows how to love death.
Sophocles

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
Sophocles

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Sophocles

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Sophocles

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Sophocles

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Sophocles

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Sophocles

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Sophocles

Silence is an ornament for women.
Sophocles

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles

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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Sophocles

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Sophocles

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Sophocles

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
Sophocles

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
Sophocles

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Sophocles

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Sophocles

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Sophocles

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Sophocles

No enemy is worse than bad advice.
Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.
Sophocles

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
Sophocles

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
Sophocles

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
Sophocles

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Sophocles

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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Sophocles

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
Sophocles

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
Sophocles

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
Sophocles

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
Sophocles

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
Sophocles

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
Sophocles

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
Sophocles

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."
Sophocles

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
Sophocles

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Sophocles

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
Sophocles

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
Sophocles

It is best to live however one can be.
Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles

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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
Sophocles

Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Sophocles

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
Sophocles

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
Sophocles

Even a poor man can receive honors.
Sophocles

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sophocles

Evil counsel travels fast.
Sophocles

Evil gains work their punishment.
Sophocles

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
Sophocles

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
Sophocles

For the dead there are no more toils.
Sophocles

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Sophocles

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Sophocles

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Sophocles

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Sophocles

God's dice always have a lucky roll.
Sophocles

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
Sophocles

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
Sophocles

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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
Sophocles

A fearful man is always hearing things.
Sophocles

A human being is only breath and shadow.
Sophocles

A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles

A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
Sophocles

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
Sophocles

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Sophocles

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Sophocles

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
Sophocles

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles

Better not to exist than live basely.
Sophocles

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Sophocles

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles

Winston Churchill Quotes



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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Virtue Quotes

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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Buddha

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William Shakespeare

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

Seeing Quotes

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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

We must become the change we want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mohandas Gandhi

You'll see it when you believe it.
Wayne Dyer

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Wayne Dyer

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Tony Robbins

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Tony Robbins

Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
Joel Osteen

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
Barack Obama

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin

Intelligence Quotes

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Success Quotes



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Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.
Tony Robbins

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
Ruth E. Renkl

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
John Wooden

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.
Anonymous

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.
Anonymous

Screw it, Let’s do it!
Richard Branson

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasa

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!
Jonathan Winters

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio Berlusconi

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.
Michael Gerber

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
Henry Kravis

Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
Ross Perot

My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
Ted Turner

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Donald Trump

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Thomas J Watson

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison


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Joseph Campbell Quotes


Joseph Campbell

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell

Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Joseph Campbell

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell

Edgar Cayce Quotes

Below are some of the very best of Edgar Cayce's quotes from his many readings throughout his amazing life as a prophet and medical advisor. Admittedly, given that Mr. Cayce gave over 14,000 readings, it is nearly an impossible task to whittle down his brilliant body of work to an assemblage of just a few of his best quotes, but nonetheless, we present some of his most inspiring ones for your enjoyment.


... for changes are coming, this may be sure -- an evolution or revolution in the ideas of religious thought. The basis of it for the world will eventually come out of Russia. Not communism, no! But rather that which is the basis of the same as the Christ taught -- his kind of communism.
Edgar Cayce


Out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.
Edgar Cayce


Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.
Edgar Cayce


All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came.
Edgar Cayce


He who understands nature walks close with God.
Edgar Cayce


In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is that you worship as God.
Edgar Cayce


Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce


Tips for a long life: Keep sweet, keep friendly, keep loving, if ye would keep young.
Edgar Cayce


The purpose of the heart is to know yourself to be yourself and yet one with God.
Edgar Cayce


The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.
Edgar Cayce


The spirit is life. The mind is the builder. The physical is the result.
Edgar Cayce


Death is only passing through God's other door.
Edgar Cayce


It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.
Edgar Cayce


It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
Edgar Cayce


You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.
Edgar Cayce


Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!
Edgar Cayce


The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.
Edgar Cayce


Learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.
Edgar Cayce


Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual. Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual.
Edgar Cayce


All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self.
Edgar Cayce


From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.
Edgar Cayce


You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.
Edgar Cayce


For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body.
Edgar Cayce