Quotations about Proverbs

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80 Quotes Found

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
	-Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and prime minister
"Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable."
	-B. C. Forbes (1880 - 1954), Founder and publisher, "Forbes" magazine
"One who fears failure limits his activities."
	-Henry Ford, American industrialist and inventor
"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
	-Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), American activist, writer, editor, and early women's rights leader
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
	-George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."
	-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German dramatist, poet & novelist
"Roll with the punches. Tomorrow is another day."
	-Dicky Fox, the original sports agent from the move "Jerry Maguire"
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing."
	-Alan Alda, Actor, screenwriter, and director
"They can because they think they can."
	-Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Roman poet
"A good example is the best sermon."
	-Benjamin Franklin, Statesman and inventor
"There is no substitute for hard work."
	-Thomas Edison, Inventor, often worked 40 hours straight
"Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win."
	-Mark Twain, Author
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do."
	-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), United Nations diplomat, humanitarian, United States First Lady
"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
	-Henry Ford, American industrialist and inventor
"Attempt the impossible to improve your work."
	-Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), American actress, first woman to be president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, career total of more than 100 films
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
	-Michael Jordan (1963 - ), American basketball player and businessman, regarded by many as the greatest basketball player to ever play the game
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
	-Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Twenty-sixth President of the United States
"Quality is not an act. It is a habit."
	-Aristotle (384 BC - 322BC), Greek philosopher, physician & scientist
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
	-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British prime minister during WWII
"I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
	-George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
	-Hellen Keller (1880 - 1968), American humanitarian, writer, and advocate for the deaf and blind
"Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals."
	-Voltaire, Philosopher
"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work."
	-Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970), Football coach
"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve."
	-Alan Perlis
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
	-Alan Kay
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
	-Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), First woman in European history to be elected Prime Minister
"A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow."
	-Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180), Roman Emperor, writer, philosopher
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."
	-John Baptiste Moliére (1622 - 1673), French playwright
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
	-Benjamin Franklin, Statesman and inventor
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
	-Jacob Bronowski (1908 - 1974), Scientist and author
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
	-Mark Twain, Author
"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
	-Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), American actress, business woman, and talk show host
"Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time."
	-Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), American publisher
"The shortest answer is doing."
	-English proverb
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
	-Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), Indian activist
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
	-Henry Ford, American industrialist and inventor
"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
	-John F. Kennedy, Thirty-fifth President of the United States
"The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break.'"
	-Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970), American writer
"Be quick but do not hurry."
	-John Wooden (1910 - ), Hall of Fame basketball coach of UCLA; won a record 10 NCAA championships
"Activity is contagious."
	-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
	-Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), Political theorist and writer
"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."
	-Benjamin Franklin, Statesman and inventor
"Nezvannyi gost' khuzhe tatarina. (An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion) "
	-Russian proverb
"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
	-Henry Ford, American industrialist and inventor
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
	-Milton Berle (1908 - 2002), Comedian & actor
"What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
	-Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979), Cofounder of United Artists, actress, Academy Award® winner
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
	-Mark Twain, Author
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
	-John Wooden (1910 - ), Hall of Fame basketball coach of UCLA; won a record 10 NCAA championships
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
	-W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), British writer, highest paid author in the world during the 1930's
"Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason."
	-Benjamin Franklin, Statesman and inventor
"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."
	-Mark Twain, Author
"He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other."
	-Japanese proverb
"Chance favors only the prepared mind."
	-Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), French chemist and biologist
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
	-Sun Tzu (c. 500 BC - 320 BC)
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
	-George Eliot (1819 - 1880), English Victorian writer
"Three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
	-Thomas Edison, Inventor, often worked 40 hours straight
"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
	-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), English playwright & poet
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
	-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French aviator and writer
"Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation."
	-Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895), English biologist and educator
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
	-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German dramatist, poet & novelist
"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
	-Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), French diplomat and writer
"It is a bad carpenter who quarrels with his tools. It is a bad general who blames his men for faulty workmanship."
	-Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), Indian activist
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
	-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British prime minister during WWII
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
	-Steve Prefontaine (1951 - 1975), American distance runner
"He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him."
	-Dutch proverb
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
	-T. S. Eliot
"The sleeping fox catches no poultry."
	-Benjamin Franklin, Statesman and inventor
"But does thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
	-Benjamin Franklin, Statesman and inventor
"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
	-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Roman philosopher and statesman
"Every second is of infinite value."
	-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German dramatist, poet & novelist
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has."
	-Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Chinese teacher and philosopher
"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
	-George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic
"Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you had better be running."
	-Unknown
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
	-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British prime minister during WWII
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
	-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), English playwright & poet
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
	-Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), Indian activist
"The beginning is half the whole."
	-Pythagoras (est. 569 BC - 475 BC), Greek philosopher and mathematician
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
	-James Thurber (1894 - 1961), American author and cartoonist
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
	-Chinese proverb
"Do or do not; there is no try."
	-Yoda, little green sage from the Star Wars series