Quotes About Boredom

If you can’t stand solitude, maybe you bore others too. — Bob Gordon I never allow myself to be bored, because boredom is ageing.  If you live in the past you grow old, and dull, and dusty.  It’s very nice, of course, to be young and beautiful; but there are other qualities, thank God. — Marie Tempest The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.  It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. — H. L. Mencken A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back...

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Quotes About Argument

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel. — Lane Kirkland People are generally better persuaded by the reason which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come to the minds of others. — Blaise Pascal There is no such test of a man’s superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. — Sir Henry Taylor No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on...

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Quotes About Adversity

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. — Walter Bagehot We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Seneca the Younger Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. — Stanislaus The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. — Woodrow Wilson I don’t say embrace trouble.  That’s as bad as treating it as an enemy.  But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be...

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Quotes About Victory

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. — Winston Churchill To the victor belong the toils. — Adlai E. Stevenson The only victory over love is flight. — Napoleon Bonaparte There is no substitute for victory. — General Douglas MacArthur Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. — John Milton An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. — Millard Fillmore I glory in conflict, that I may hereafter...

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Quotes About Time and Timing

I am always quarreling with time!  It is so short to do something and so long to do nothing. — Queen Charlotte The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. — Leontyne Price We must use time creatively...and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. — Martin Luther King, Jr. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.  But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it’s longer than any hour.  That’s relativity. —...

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Quotes About Talent

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent.  With man-made talent you have to work very hard.  With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. — Pearl Bailey Talent wins out. — Althea Gibson Darben Keep your talent in the dark and you’ll never be insulted. — Elsa Maxwell A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. — Isaac Stern Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness. — Bertrand Russell There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. — Honoré de...

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Quotes About Success

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions os people who formerly snubbed you. — Mary Wilson Little The man who succeeds is never conceded the right to fail. — William Pickens If every successful man needs a woman behind him, every successful woman needs at least three men. — Margot Naylor Success is a public affair.  Failure is a private funeral. — Rosalind Russell The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary. — Vidal Sassoon You write a hit play the same way you write a flop. — William Saroyan If...

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