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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Euripides' quotes


Euripides was a playwright from Ancient Greece. He is considered as one of the three great tragedy playwrights of Classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. Many of his plays depict personal and social issues. He is known to have shown strong women characters and intelligent slaves in his works.

Here are his quotes:

1. "The bold are helpless without cleverness."

2. "Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. "

3. "Much effort, much prosperity."

4. "Leave no stone unturned."

5. "Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Quotes from Pearl S. Buck


Pearl S. Buck was a Pulitzer-winning American writer. She was also the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her Pulitzer-winning novel, The Good Earth, stayed on the
bestseller list for months. It also sold nearly two million copies, and was translated into thirty languages.


Here are some of her famous quotes:

1. "All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. "

2. "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

3. “I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. ”

4. "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. "

5. "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation."

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Inspiring Quotes from Teddy Roosevelt


Theodore Roosevelt, also known as Teddy Roosevelt was one of the four American statesmen
depicted in the Mount Rushmore Memorial. Two US Navy ships are also named after him: the submarine USS Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) and the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71).

Here are his inspiring quotes:

1. "Believe you can and you're halfway there."

2. "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

3. "In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

4. "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

5. "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. "

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Charles Kettering's inspiring quotations


Charles Franklin Kettering was an American inventor who holds more than 300 patents. He headed the research for General Motors

for 27 years. Among his inventions were the electrical starting motor and the Freon refrigerant.


Here are some of Charles Kettering's quotes:

1. "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved."

2. "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

3. "High achievement always takes place in the frameworkof high expectation."

4. "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again."

5. "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Inspiring Quotes from Lucille Ball


Lucille Désirée Ball, widely known as Lucille Ball was an American actress for film,
television, stage and radio. She had a highly successful television career for more than thirty years and received thirteen nominations and four wins from the Emmy Awards.

Here's are some of her inspiring quotes:

1. "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

2. "Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

3. "I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not."

4. "The more things you do, the more you can do."

5. "I'm not funny. What I am is brave."

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Get to know Ovid's quotes



Publius Ovidius Naso, also known as Ovid, was a Roman poet considered
as one of the three canonical poets of Latin Literature
(along with Horace and Virgil).






Here are Ovid's quotes:



1. "At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."

2. "Fortune and love favor the brave."

3. "Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by."

4. "The bold adventurer succeeds the best."

5. "Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a Spanish playwright, novelist and poet. His legendary success, the novel “Don Quixote”, first published in 1605, has been released in 700 editions and translated in major languages.


Here are some quotes from Miguel de Cervantes:


1. "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. "


2. "Every man is the son of his own works."


3. "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."


4. "Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."


5. “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”