When you dream of success, are you ready for endurance? You are ambitious to lead, but are you ready to serve? We all want to get, do we know how to give? We all want to be heard, but are we prepared to listen? We all want to be happy, but do we feel for the sad?...
On ne fait jamais attention à ce qui a été fait; on ne voit que ce qui reste à faire. Marie Curie – aussi Marie Skłodowska-Curie, physicienne et chimiste française d”origine polonaise, prix Nobel de physique en 1903 et prix Nobel de chimie en 1911 (1867-1934), d”une lettre à son frère Józef Skłodowski (18/03/1894), Brochure de citation 2021 One never notices what has been...
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you...
What”s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan – born Robert Allen Zimmerman, American singer-songwriter, author and musician, Nobel Prize in literature 2016 (b. 1941), Quotations book 2021
People calculate too much and think too little. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder’s meeting (2002), Quotations book 2021
To get full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910), from “Following the Equator” (“Pudd”nhead Wilson”s New Calendar”, chapter XLVIII, 1897), Quotations book 2021
How long I might live is beyond my control; how long I will live, in the sense of truly living, is mine. Quamdiu sim alienum est: quamdiu ero, (vere) ut sim, meum est. Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman philosopher (4 B.C.-65 A.C.), from “Epistulae morales ad Lucilium”, Liber XV, letter 93 (written 64), Quotations book...
Jesus Christ said: Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. The Bible, Lucas 6:36 (NIV) – Quotations book 2021 The Protestant pastor and song writer Otto Riethmüller (1889-1939) – he belonged to the Confessing Church – decided in 1930 under the impression of the Nacional Socialism’s propaganda, to give henceforth every calendar year a headline with a Bible verse. An act...
When you dream of success, are you ready for endurance? You are ambitious to lead, but are you ready to serve? We all want to get, do we know how to give? We all want to be heard, but are we prepared to listen? We all want to be happy, but do we feel for the sad? We all want to standout, but do we know how to be supportive? We all know what we want, but do you know what you need? You want to...
Every problem you master helps you on in future – and gives you fresh strength. Stefanie Graf – German former tennis player (b. 1969), Quotations book 2022
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others. Joseph J. Campbell – American writer, Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College (1904-1987), from “Myths to Live By” (1972)