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You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Topic: Risk
Author: Wayne Gretzky
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. -Nietzche.
Topic: Heart quotes
Author: Nietzche
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Thomas A Edison
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
Topic: Cynicism
Author: George Jean Nathan
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Simeon Strunsky
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Topic: Future
Author: Ralph W Sockman
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
Topic: Politics
Author: Fisher Ames
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Topic: Courtesy
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Harriet Braiker
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
"Is ignorance or apathy the biggest problem with the world today?" "I don't know and I don't care".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Eric Hoffer
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Topic: Sports
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
Topic: Fancy
Author: John Bunyan
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Topic: Heart
Author: Cervantes
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
Topic: Faith
Author: St Francis Of Assisi
They converse as those who know that God hears.
Topic: Conversation
Author: Quintus Septimius
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
Topic: Humanity
Author: Joseph R Krutch