Let us collect the Greatest list of Quotes & Proverbs

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   Taleb80posted 14 years ago

   It works like this.
   
   I will post a Quote, the next Hubber have two choices:
   1- If he has another quote or proverb with same meaning he can replay on mine.
   2- Otherwise he can post a reply & others will replay to him if they have a one with same meaning.
   
   I hope we will mention Names for the quotes.
   You can post as much as you can.
   
   
   Let us start
   
   
   "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

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      perfectperceptionposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      One step toward your goal, is a step in the perfect direction! - Tonja Neal

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         Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.
         - T. Harv Eker

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            Sylviabbposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Good information, thanks

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            CollBposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.  ~ David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair

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         tobey100posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Speaking of steps.....
         
         What if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about? - Tobey

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            Denise Handlonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                 That's great !

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      tobey100posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

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      Pearldiverposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      What a Lazy Way of getting material to write on!
      Let everyone bring it to you, so you can publish a dozen hubs with it
      
      Unbelievable!

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      nightwork4posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      a man with many children is always in the "hole"

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   Extinct Soulposted 14 years ago

   Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
   - Peter McWilliams

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      Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      "I hated every minute of training, but I said , Dont Quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a Champion." ~ Muhommad Ali

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   tobey100posted 14 years ago

   You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'. -Homer Simpson

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      Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      "You will See it when you believe it." ~ Dr Wayne Dyer

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   logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

   "Boom, goes the dynomite!"  Unknown

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      Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      He who refuses to do the arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
      - John McCarthy
      
      

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      tobey100posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      

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   tobey100posted 14 years ago

   Oh, Oh, I just thought of the best one of all......
   
   "We've got to pass the bill in order to know what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi

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   Taleb80posted 14 years ago

   "Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness." ~ Mark Twain

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      Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.
      - Horace Friess

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         Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." - Andrew Carnegie

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            Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
            -Eleanor Roosevelt

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               Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

               Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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   Taleb80posted 14 years ago

   "Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading." ~ William Zinsser

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   Extinct Soulposted 14 years ago

   Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
   - Benjamin Franklin

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      CarolineVABCposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      “Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”- E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)

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   memoretonposted 14 years ago

   In all you ways acknowlede Him and He will direct your path.... Book of Proverbs.

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    Denise Handlonposted 14 years ago

      I love this forum thread but it's late at night and my mind is blank.     ----Denise 
    
    (I'll be back this weekend, long work hours will keep me away until then).

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       Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Waiting for your kind visit Mrs. Denise.

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    GmaGoldieposted 14 years ago

    "The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places."  ~Author Unknown

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       Denise Handlonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       

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    Extinct Soulposted 14 years ago

    Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
    - Joey Adams

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    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” Coco Chanel

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       Rajab Nsubugaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       "In order to be different one has to be irreplaceable." Rajab Nsubuga

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          Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Be original! Imitation is suicide..  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    If you can't raise your standards, don't lower those of others. ~ D Joubert

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       Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       “Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered”
       - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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    Joesy Shmoesyposted 14 years ago

    Be who you are and say what you feel, because those that matter don't mind, and those that mind don't matter.  - Dr. Suess

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       Joesy Shmoesyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Ooops, over excited. That's DR SEUSS.

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    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    "The most influential person you will talk to all day is you. Be very careful about what you say to you!" - Zig Ziglar

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    Extinct Soulposted 14 years ago

    Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
    - Max Frisch

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       Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." - Aldous Huxley

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          Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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             Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.~James Baldwin

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             Preethi Anushaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             one who conquers himself is far more greater  than a worrier who conquers the whole world - Goutham Buddha

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    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. -Lou Holtz

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    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    "Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake." - William James

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    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    Procrastination is just a big word for laziness that hasn't yet taken place.

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    theseusposted 14 years ago

    You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
    -- George Bernard Shaw

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    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    "We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." - Albert Einstein

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    logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

    "God must love stupid people, he made so many of them!"  Unknown

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    theseusposted 14 years ago

    “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
    -Oscar Wilde-

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    Taleb80posted 14 years ago

    "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." - Dietrich Bonheoffer

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    classicalgeekposted 14 years ago

    Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. --Henri Bergson

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.    Abraham Lincoln

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    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, stupidity is the refusal to except that knowledge.  -- Unknown

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    Extinct Soulposted 14 years ago

    The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
    - Nicholas Chamfort

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    sligobayposted 14 years ago

    Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump

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    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    Monkey see and monkey do.

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       Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
       -Charles Darwin

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    Dale Nelsonposted 14 years ago

    There is only one beautiful child in the world and every parent has one - unknown

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Charles Caleb Colton

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. Edwin Schlossberg

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
        Kin Hubbard

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    Disturbiaposted 14 years ago

    "I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention." — Diane Sawyer

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. Jef Mallett

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       Extinct Soulposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       “Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.”
       - Susan Taylor

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          theseusposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          "Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power."
          
          -Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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       Taleb80posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       "You can make your life what you wish if you learn to make your thoughts work for you." ~ Wayne Dyer

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    Bellamieposted 14 years ago

    "Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see."
    ~~Roy Rogers

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    Bellamieposted 14 years ago

    "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."
    ~~~Joey Adams

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    Bellamieposted 14 years ago

    "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
    ~~~Abraham Lincoln

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
    You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
    You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
    You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
    You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
    You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
    You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
    You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
    You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
          William J. H. Boetcker, 1916 (often attributed to Lincoln)

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
    
        Robert Heinlein

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    Pearldiverposted 14 years ago

    No Person with personal, ethical values can be inspired by Laziness!
    - Pearldiver

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    jayjay40posted 14 years ago

    It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?  ~Ronald Reagan

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       toknowinfoposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.  ~Thomas Jefferson

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
        Jean Cocteau

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    You always pass failure on the way to success.
     
        Mickey Rooney

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
        Thomas A. Edison

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       theseusposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       "Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted".
       -  David Bly

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    char4u.composted 14 years ago

    "Only a life lived for others is a life worth living."- Albert Einstein

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    Alhamoraposted 14 years ago

    “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” - Mother Teresa

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    Dale Nelsonposted 14 years ago

    Dough  - Homer Simpson

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       LeslieAdrienneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Confidence in an unfaithful  man in time of trouble is like a broken foot or a foot out of joint.

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