Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011
Nelson Mandela photo

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Joseph Campbell photo

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Oprah Winfrey photo

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Variant: When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

Sophia Loren photo
Stephen R. Covey quote: “The way we see the problem is the problem.”
Stephen R. Covey photo

“The way we see the problem is the problem.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
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“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Variant: you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.

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Honoré de Balzac photo

“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

Qui dépense trop n’est jamais riche.
La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Maison_du_chat-qui-pelote [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] (1830), translated by Clara Bell

Ian Fleming photo

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Source: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit. Fleming is quoting Jack London directly.

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“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Variant: A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112.

Gianni Agnelli photo

“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”

Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman

Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com

Epictetus photo

“Only the educated are free.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.

Sigmund Freud photo

“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

As quoted in In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays (1976 edition) by Anais Nin, p.14
Attributed from posthumous publications

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“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variant: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Source: Fahrenheit 451