Quotes for August 244 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 2: the anniversary does not move.

• A friend is a present you give to yourself.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 67 reads

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.7 · 15 votes · 45 reads

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• Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 136 reads

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• Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.5 · 27 votes · 127 reads

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• Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  5.0 · 39 votes · 112 reads

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• Effective action is always unjust.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  4.7 · 37 votes · 137 reads

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• Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 78 reads

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• Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 5 votes · 54 reads

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• God hath entrusted me with myself.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.9 · 14 votes · 52 reads

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 8 reads

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• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 37 reads

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• Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyda

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  WriterAmerican1811 · 19th century

  4.2 · 18 votes · 123 reads

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• How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.9 · 17 votes · 120 reads

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• I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 123 reads

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• I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  5.0 · 39 votes · 53 reads

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• I'm married to Ferrari.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.6 · 32 votes · 186 reads

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• I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 42 reads

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• It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 121 reads

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• It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  5.0 · 22 votes · 131 reads

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• Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 117 reads

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• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  4.6 · 36 votes · 194 reads

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• Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 190 reads

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• No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 13 reads

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• One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 59 votes · 92 reads

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• Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 181 reads

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• Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.9 · 62 votes · 44 reads

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• The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 38 votes · 116 reads

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• The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.8 · 54 votes · 81 reads

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• The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 113 reads

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• The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 76 reads

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• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

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  Richard Strauss

  MusicianGerman1864 · 19th century

  3.7 · 45 votes · 102 reads

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• The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 63 reads

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• The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 56 reads

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• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 36 reads

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• Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 26 reads

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• We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 178 reads

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• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 100 reads

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• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 114 reads

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• Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 18 reads

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• Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 114 reads

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 55 reads

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• You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  3.9 · 28 votes · 45 reads

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• Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 42 votes · 126 reads

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