Quotes for November 2948 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 29: the anniversary does not move.

• A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 23 votes · 53 reads

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• Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.7 · 20 votes · 64 reads

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• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 187 reads

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• All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.6 · 59 votes · 105 reads

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• And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 200 reads

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• Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.4 · 31 votes · 117 reads

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• Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 31 votes · 69 reads

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• Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 17 votes · 71 reads

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• Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 51 votes · 133 reads

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• Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  4.2 · 44 votes · 86 reads

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• Forgotten is forgiven.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 43 votes · 120 reads

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• Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 47 votes · 140 reads

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• Freedom exists only with power.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 100 reads

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• How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 58 reads

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• Indecision is the seedling of fear.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  5.0 · 62 votes · 141 reads

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• India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language to be in touch. Then India's industrial situation is similar to us. Both have big companies but are dominated by small and medium-sized

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 107 reads

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• Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.6 · 11 votes · 24 reads

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• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 120 reads

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• It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 18 reads

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• It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 84 reads

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• It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 78 reads

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• Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.6 · 24 votes · 115 reads

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• Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.4 · 53 votes · 143 reads

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• Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 61 reads

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• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.4 · 28 votes · 99 reads

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• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 113 reads

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• Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 142 reads

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• Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 52 reads

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• Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.4 · 62 votes · 18 reads

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• So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 120 reads

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• Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.0 · 60 votes · 139 reads

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• The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.6 · 23 votes · 187 reads

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• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.0 · 57 votes · 133 reads

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• The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.6 · 57 votes · 170 reads

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• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 188 reads

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• The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 8 votes · 78 reads

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• The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 90 reads

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• The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 32 votes · 23 reads

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• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 85 reads

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• This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 157 reads

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• Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.4 · 21 votes · 119 reads

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• War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 136 reads

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• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 61 reads

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• We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 37 votes · 156 reads

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• We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 183 reads

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• What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 134 reads

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• Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 94 reads

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