CITAS CITABLES (QUOTABLE QUOTES)
1. The best way to
make your dreams come true is to wake up.
J. M. Power
2. A rock pile ceases
to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him
the image of a cathedral. Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry
3. The trouble with
not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field
and never scoring. Bill Copeland
4. I’ve always wanted
to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
5. It’s a funny thing
about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get
it.
W. Somerset Maugham
6. Climb up on some
hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find
it there.
Robb Sagendorph
7. In order to
maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a dog to worship him
should also have a cat to ignore him. Peterborough
Examiner
8. The ultimate test
of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for
future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord
Nelson
9. The day the child
realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he
forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes
wise. Alden Nowlan
10. Maturity is the
ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without
spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. Ann Landers
11. You don’t stop
laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
12. One of the oldest
human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home
at night. Margaret
Mead
13. Lots of people
want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take
the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah
Winfrey
14. It’s the things
in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences
that make them interesting. Todd Ruthman
15. Don’t make
friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to
lever yourself up. Thomas J.
Watson Sr.
16. You can make more
friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to
get them interested in you. Charles L.
Allen
17. Expect people to
be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don’t be
disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. Merry Browne
18. It is one of the
beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help
another without helping himself. Charles
Dudley Warner
19. He is not an
honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the
soup is hot.
Yugoslav
Proverb
20. The most
important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
21. My father didn’t
tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland
22. Lucky parents who
have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.
James A. Brewer
23. Children are like
wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Haim Ginnot
24. The most
important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along
without them.
Frank A. Clark
25. If you want your
children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their
shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
26. A child, like
your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.
Frank A. Clark
27. The best security
blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
Jan Blaustone
28. Any kid who has
two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor.
Sam Levenson
29. Character
consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James Michener
30 How a man plays
the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it.
Tribune
31. You can tell more
about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say
about him. Leo Aikman
32. One of the best
ways to measure people is to watch the way they behave when something free is
offered. Ann Landers
33. I will say this
about being an optimist, even when things don’t turn out well, you are certain
they will get better. Frank Hughes
34. The glory of
great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
François de la Rochefoucauld
35. Live so that your
friends can defend you but never have to.
Arnold H. Glasow
36. In any contest
between power and patience, bet on patience.
W. B. Prescott
37. When I was young,
I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
38. You never really
understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee
39. One of the
secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every
night before you go to bed. Ann Landers
40. Some people
strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. Gardner
41. Feeling gratitude
and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward
42. The man who
removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
43. Laziness may
appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Ann Frank
44. What we all tend
to complain about most in other people are those things we don’t like about
ourselves.
William Wharton
45. Nothing will
divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together
better than an educated population.
John Sculley
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