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“Its easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) Swiss author and dramatist
“I don’t rely on any sources other than my own compatriots.”
Reza Pahlavi (1960) Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran
As quoted by Deborah Solomon, New York Times: Questions for Reza Pahlavi http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=379&page=4, The New York Times, June 26, 2009. <br class="br">Interviews, 2009
“You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IV, 32
“Self-perception is more important than any other factor in predicting success.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I–II, q. 3, art. 8 co
“The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue.”
Mateo Alemán book Guzmán de Alfarache
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. III.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
“Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Epigram —Dizzy Gillespie
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011)
“More rogues than honest men find shelter under habeas corpus”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1820s Gold treasure United States, 1860s
“It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe.”
Gregory of Nazianzus (329–389) Christian saint, bishop, and theologian
On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press: 2002), Oration 27
“In the whole range of evil thoughts, none is richer in resources than self-esteem.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk
On Discrimination, vol. 1, p. 46
The Philokalia
“All equally truthful: number 1 is not more or less important than 35.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and television personality
1990s
“I was more fucked-up than Courtney Love at the Pamela Anderson roast!”
Ron White (1956) American comedian
You Can't Fix Stupid
“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”
Octavia E. Butler book Bloodchild and Other Stories
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)