Quotes for September 2949 quotes · 38 authors

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

• A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 39 votes · 85 reads

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• A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 82 reads

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 6 votes · 83 reads

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• A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 194 reads

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• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 115 reads

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• Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 127 reads

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• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 121 reads

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• Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 134 reads

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• Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 14 votes · 101 reads

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• Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 39 votes · 73 reads

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• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 39 reads

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• High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decision

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 124 reads

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• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know,

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 75 reads

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• I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.0 · 15 votes · 24 reads

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• I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 14 reads

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• I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 22 reads

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• I think the best place to work in football is England.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 100 reads

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• I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.6 · 63 votes · 75 reads

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• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 42 reads

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• In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 51 votes · 70 reads

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• In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 113 reads

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• Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 72 reads

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• It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 17 reads

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• Life is a dream walking death is a going home.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.6 · 58 votes · 110 reads

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 88 reads

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• Man is more powerful than matter.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 47 reads

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• Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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  Ivan Turgenev

  WriterRussian1818 · 19th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 88 reads

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• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 121 reads

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• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 95 reads

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• Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 43 reads

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• On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 29 reads

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• That man is idle who can do something better.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 46 votes · 71 reads

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• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 20 votes · 80 reads

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• The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.2 · 59 votes · 102 reads

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• The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, c

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 17 votes · 165 reads

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• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 74 reads

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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  3.1 · 7 votes · 78 reads

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• The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 53 votes · 15 reads

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• The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 51 votes · 77 reads

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• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 151 reads

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• There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 77 reads

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• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 31 votes · 197 reads

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• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 24 reads

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• We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 20 reads

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• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 138 reads

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• Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 174 reads

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• With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 105 reads

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• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.1 · 40 votes · 193 reads

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