Quotes for January 1150 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 11: the anniversary does not move.

• A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 163 reads

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• A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

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  Louisa May Alcott

  AuthorAmerican1832 · 19th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 37 reads

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• A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.9 · 18 votes · 121 reads

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• Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 135 reads

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• Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it - and some of your spouse's family does too.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 7 votes · 94 reads

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• Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 91 reads

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• Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 152 reads

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• Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.5 · 35 votes · 112 reads

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• Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 63 reads

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• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.6 · 52 votes · 23 reads

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• I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 168 reads

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• I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 98 reads

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• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 40 reads

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• If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 1 reads

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• If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 47 reads

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• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.1 · 41 votes · 186 reads

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• It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 164 reads

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• Look, I'm outspoken.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.9 · 51 votes · 92 reads

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• Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 13 votes · 180 reads

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• Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 111 reads

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• No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 104 reads

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• No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.1 · 22 votes · 80 reads

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• No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 4 reads

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• No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

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  Gustav Krupp

  BusinessmanGerman1870 · 19th century

  4.8 · 50 votes · 64 reads

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• Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 125 reads

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• Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 32 votes · 105 reads

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 51 votes · 156 reads

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• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 59 votes · 109 reads

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• So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 52 votes · 62 reads

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• Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 53 votes · 199 reads

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• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 195 reads

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• States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.2 · 55 votes · 26 reads

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• Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 29 reads

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• The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 62 reads

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• The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 163 reads

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• The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really t

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 55 votes · 51 reads

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• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 126 reads

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• The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 148 reads

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• The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 135 reads

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• The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  3.2 · 45 votes · 177 reads

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• The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.9 · 59 votes · 43 reads

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• The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 69 reads

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• There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice.''

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 15 votes · 111 reads

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• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.0 · 7 votes · 139 reads

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• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 66 reads

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• We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 132 reads

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• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 36 reads

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• When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.5 · 50 votes · 66 reads

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• You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 34 votes · 0 reads

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