Opportunities Today :- December 2007 Issue

Quotes

 

 

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal
- Walter Lippmann

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right
- Winston Churchill

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod
- Shakespeare

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener
- Duke of Edinburgh

 

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure
- Henry Ward Beecher

 

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice
- Plato

 

To copy is to put an end to creativeness
- Ismail Merchant

 

There are two ways of spreading light : to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it
- Edith Wharton

 

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own
- Abraham Lincoln

 

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man
- Aristotle

 

True friendship is a plant of slow growth
- George Washington

 

Who can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
- William Shakespeare

 

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money
- Abraham Lincoln

 

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness
- Margaret Blessington

 

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow
- Supergeon

 

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius
- Will Henry

 

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country
- Bertrand Russell

 

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power
- Honore De Balzac

 

A saint is not one who never falls; it is one who gets up and goes on every time he falls
- Unknown

 

To become a champion, fight one more round
- J. Corbett

 

You never really lose until you quit trying
- Make Ditka

 

Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength
- St. Francis De Sales

 

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go
- William Feather

 

Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertion and passionate concerns of dedicated individuals
- Martin Luther King

 

Hate cannot destroy hate, but love can and does
- Daniel A. Poling

 

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one
- Mother Teresa

 

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another
- Walter Elliott

 

Action speaks louder than words
- English Proverb

 

Argument is the worst sort of conversation
- Jonathan Swift

 

The unspoken word never does harm
- Kossuth

 

No man is rich enough to buy back his past
- Oscar Wilde

 

The biggest problems in the world could have been solved when it was small
- Witter Bynner