All the Best Quotes

Somerset Maugham Quotes

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failures make people cruel and bitter. Somerset Maugham

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. Somerset Maugham

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. Somerset Maugham

You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. Somerset Maugham
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Ronald Reagan Quotes

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. Ronald Reagan

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. Ronald Reagan

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan

People don’t start wars, governments do. Ronald Reagan
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Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Woodrow Wilson
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Edmund Burke Quotes

Patience will achieve more than force. Edmund Burke

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke

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Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it. Donald Rumsfeld

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. Donald Rumsfeld

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer. Donald Rumsfeld

Watch the growth of middle level management. Don’t automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won’t need to fill some of them. Donald Rumsfeld
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Thomas Szasz Quotes

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. Thomas Szasz

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. Thomas Szasz
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest homage to truth is to use it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Aristotle Quotes

No great genius is without an admixture of madness. Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them. Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle
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George Orwell Quotes

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals. George Orwell
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Warren Buffett Quotes

It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked. Warren Buffett

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without the first, you really want them to be dumb and lazy. Warren Buffett

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can’t. Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it. Warren Buffett

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