Monday, April 4, 2011

Quotations-W,X,Y,Z

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1.     "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase."-Harold Wilson.
2.     “Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”  ~Author Unknown.
3.     "No one can have all he wants, but a man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."-Seneca.
4.     “You can never get enough of what you don’t want.”-Wayne Dyer.
5.     "As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."-George Bernard Shaw.
6.     "As a rule a man's a fool. When it's hot he wants it cool; when it's cool he wants it hot. Always wanting what is not."-Graffiti.
7.     “Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline.  They are weak.  I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.”-Sophia Loren.
8.     “We can do anything we want if we stick with it long enough.”-Helen Keller.
9.     “Wage war against the weaker thoughts that have crept into the place of your mind. They will see that they are unwanted and leave like unwelcome visitors.”- Robin S. Sharma.
10. “There is nothing that war has ever achieved which we could not better achieve without it.”-Havelock Ellis.
11. “One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”-Agatha Christie.
12. “There never was a good war or a bad peace.”-Benjamin Franklin.
13. "The world war after the next one will be fought with rocks."-Albert Einstein.
14. "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."-John F Kennedy.
15. “The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.”-Ben Herbste.
16. “Ignorant and foolish people become lazy. The wise man regards watchfulness as his greatest treasure.”-Buddha.
17. “You do not drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there”- Lindsay.
18. “All cruelty springs from weakness.”-Seneca.
19. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”-Benjamin Franklin.
20. “It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”-Kin Hubbard.
21. Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.”- Seneca.
22. "A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world."-Prophet Mohammed.
23. "We are all mere temporary custodians of the wealth we generate, whether it be financial, intellectual, or emotional. The best use of all your wealth is to share it with those less fortunate." - Narayana Murthy
24. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”-Albert Einstein.
25. "Better to wear out than rust out."-Richard Cumberland.
26. “Well done is better than well said.”- Ben Franklin.
27. “People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.”- Howard W. Newton.
28. “The part can never be well unless the whole is well.”~Plato.
29. “Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.”-Indian Proverb.
30. "People do not lack strength; they lack will."-Victor Hugo.
31. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” -M.K.Gandhi.
32. “If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.”  ~Author Unknown.
33. “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It can’t be taken from you, not by angles or by demons.”-Buddha.
34. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”-Margaret Thatcher.
35. Winning does not always mean being first, winning means you are doing better than you have done before.”-Bonnie Blair.
36. “If you win you need not explain. But if you lose you should not be there to explain.”-Adolph Hitler.
37. "It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone"-John Keats.
38. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” Robert T. Kiyosaki
39.  "It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone"- John Keats.
40. "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."-Edward Gibbon.
41. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”-Anne Bradstreet.
42. “Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.”-Teddy Roosevelt.
43. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people”                                                                                                                                                                             - William Butler Yeats
44. Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”-Sophocles.
45. “Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”-Titus Maccius Plautus.
46. “A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.”-Unknown.
47. “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”-Marilyn vos Savant.
48. “The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.”-G. Emmons.
49. “Man, know thyself! All wisdom centres there.”-Young.
50. “Nine-tenth of wisdom is being wise in time.”-Theodore Roosevelt.
51. Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”-Sophocles.
52. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by experience, which is bitterest; and third, by imitation, which is easiest.”-Confucius.
53. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”-Bertrand Russell.
54. "To remember much is not necessarily to be wise."-Samuel David Luzzatto.
55. "There is no greatest wealth than wisdom; no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture."-Nahjul Balagha.
56. "Wisdom is to the soul what health is to body."-F Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
57. "The stupid speaks of the past, the wise of the present, fool of the future."-Napoleon Bonaparte.
58. “Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.” -Oprah Winfrey.
59. "Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."-Hermann Hesse.
60. "Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual."-Ammon Hennacy.
61. “Yesterday I was clever. So I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise. So I am changing myself. It is better to be wise than to be clever.”-Unknown.
62. Who is wise?  He that learns from everyone.  Who is powerful?  He that governs his passions.  Who is rich?  He that is content.  Who is that?  Nobody.”~Benjamin Franklin.
63. "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."-William Hazlitt.
64. "A society which enslaves its women is a society doomed to decay."-Ibn Rashd.
65. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”~Henry van Dyke.
66. “Use soft words and hard arguments.”-English Proverb.
67. "I am deaf to the word 'No'."-Dhirubhai Ambani.
68. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”-Martin Luther King Jr.
69. "It is with a word as with an arrow-once let it loose and it does not return."-Abd-el-Kader.
70. "My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words."-Arthur Scargill.
71. "The words once spoken can never be recalled."-Wentworth Dillon.
72. "Words are the only things that last forever."-William Hazlitt.
73. "Eating words has never given me indigestion."-Sir Winston Churchill.
74. "A blow of words strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."-Robert Burton.
75. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”-Thomas Jefferson.
76. “A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”-William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918.
77. “If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”-Dennis Roth.
78. “Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.”~Iara Gassen
79. “The word "good" has many meanings.  For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”  ~G.K. Chesterton
80. “The best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”- Theodore Roosevelt.
81. Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.”~Marc Chagall
82.   "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."-Theodore Roosevelt.
83. “When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.”~Pablo Picasso
84. "The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."-Harry Golden.
85. "I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have."-Thomas Jefferson.
86. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”-George Herbert
87. "Nothing will work unless you do."-Maya Angelon.
88.  Work is worship.”-Ruskin.
89. Work as hard as you can, and give your all to what you are doing; strive to do the best. Set your goals high. If you set them too low you will go below that mark.”-Muriel Douglas.
90. "The way to get noticed…. is to do quality work."-Anonymous.
91. "Every noble work is at first impossible."-Thomas Carlyle.
92. “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”-Thomas Edison
93. "Work conquers all."-Virgil.
94. "For whom should I work if not for the people? Born of the people, I will die for the people."-Charles Bradlaugh.
95. "The harder you work, the luckier you get."-Gary Player.
96. “The man who works and is not bored is never old.”-Pablo Casals.
97. The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”-Thomas Paine.
98. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”-M K Gandhi.
99. "The new man will not be a Christian or a Hindu, a Mohammedan or a Buddhist. He will simply be religious. Religiousness will not be taken as a belief, but as a way of life- a way full of consciousness, love, sharing and friendliness, and a way of creating one world without any boundaries."-Rajneesh.
100.        "The world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel."-Horace Jeremy Taylor.
101.         “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.” -Charlie Chaplin
102.        "I never like the middle ground-the most boring place in the world."-Louise Nevelson.
103.   “The entire world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” ~Martin H. Fischer
104.   “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work,”-Robert Frost.
105.   “To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.”~Chu Hui Weng.
106.        “If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.”-From the television show Roseanne.
107.        “If the problem has a solution, worrying is pointless. In the end the problem will be solved. If the problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it can’t be solved”-Zen saying.
108.        “One person can change the system. You may feel alone but don’t worry other people will join you if your aims are good.”-Unknown.
109.        "Worship can never be confined to the walls of the church or mosque or temple, for it is an attitude towards life, a response to the universe around us."-Anonymous.
110.        “When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.”-Leslie Grossman
111.        "I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world."-John Keats.
112.        "Write your sad times in sand. Write your good times in stone."-George Bernard Shaw.
113.        "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."-Cyril Connolly.
114.        "There are thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up to write."-W M Thackeray.
115.        "If you do not wish to be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."-Benjamin Franklin.
116.   “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”-Joseph Chilton Pearce.
117.   “The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.”-Cicero.
118.   “We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.”-J K Onassis.

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1.     Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?  Today is a gift.  That's why we call it the present.”-Babatunde Olatunji.
2.     “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”  ~Pearl Buck
3.     "What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you."- Wayne Dyer.
4.     "The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else." - Geoffrey Gaberino
5.      Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age regret.”-Disraeli.
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