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Wednesday 10 November 2010

Good Quotations by Famous People

  
Good Quotations by Famous People:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html.

I came across these quotations, full of wisdom,when engraved upon the memory,give you good thoughts,stir emotions and inspire us to do our best.Surprise to see some quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger (Imagine him saying the words) and Jimi Hendrix(Playing on his guitar)!
Enjoy.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
You have enemies? Good.That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." 
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
 Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
 "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948-
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't"
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
--
Maya Angelou (1928-)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John F. Kennedy (1917-1963
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

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