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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
Brad Henry
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
Andy Warhol
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James Dean
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Julia Roberts
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
Robin Hayes
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
Mencius
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
Marilyn Monroe
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B. R. Ambedkar
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
Joe Theismann