His Quotes
8811 His quotes by 4969 unique authors
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
— Abdul Kalam
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through…
— David Gill
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
— Lawrence Durrell
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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
— James K. Polk
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,…
— Emile Durkheim
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Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
— Remy de Gourmont
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
— Zebulon Pike
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Every man is the son of his own works.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and…
— Thomas G. Stemberg
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
— Rufus Choate
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
— Charles Kettering
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
— Samuel Daniel
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
— William Cobbett
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
— Thomas Hobbes
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What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
— Terry Bradshaw
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My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through…
— Gregory Hines
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has…
— Phillips Brooks
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your…
— Seneca the Younger
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova
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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying…
— Berkeley Breathed
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like…
— Horace
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Failure has gone to his head.
— Wilson Mizner
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
— David Lloyd George
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The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
— Walter Lippmann
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