Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Quotes by Philosophers

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate or value into your life - Northrup Christiane

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome - Arthur Ashe

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimension - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere - Martin Luther King

I hear and forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand - Confucius

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it - David Starr Jordan

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. And one quote on though, yet with an element of action. All truly wise thoughts have been tought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. - Johann von Goethe

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