Beautiful English Quotes

[Persiana]

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Only by great risks can great results be achieved.i

Xerxes the Great Persian Emperor of Achaemenid Empire​

 

[Persiana]

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.i

Sidney J. Harris
American journalist

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[Persiana]

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.i

Gail Sheehy
American writer and lecturer​

 

[Persiana]

To escape criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.i

Elbert Hubbard
American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher​

 

[Callisto]

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'

Friedrich Nietzsche ,German philosopher

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[Callisto]

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte, political leader of France

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[Callisto]

He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.

Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher

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[Persiana]

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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.i

Dalai Lama
spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
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[Persiana]

Every man dies, but not every man really lives.i

William Wallace
Scottish knight and patriot​

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[Persiana]

You cannot be buried in obscurity, you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.i

Cyrus the Great
The first Persian Emperor and the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty​

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[bloody]

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one
Voltaire a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher
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[bloody]

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere
Voltaire a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher
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[bloody]

The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing
Voltaire a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher
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[Nereid]

A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom​

- Dan Rather​

 

[Persiana]

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.i

Damon Runyon
American writer and journalist
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[Persiana]

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.i

Nelson Mandela
South African anti-apartheid activist and former president
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[Persiana]

You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?i

Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer​

 

[Persiana]

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.i

George Orwell
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[Persiana]

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.i

Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist​

 

[Persiana]

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.i

Gamaliel Bailey
American journalist and abolitionist​