Quotes of Event - somelinesforyou

“ Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. ”

- Patrick Henry

“ Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ”

- Bruce Barton

“ Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white". ”

- Bing Crosby

“ Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium. ”

- Sarah Hughes

“ Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ”

- Viktor E. Frankl

“ If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ”

- Abigail Van Buren

“ War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ”

- Georges Clemenceau

“ A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ Where there is great love there are always miracles. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. ”

- Bible

“ For courage mounteth with occasion. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline. ”

- Henry Parry Liddon

“ It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal. ”

- George L. Morrisey

“ We are very pleased with our results for the quarter, achieved as they were in a challenging economic climate, and encouraged by the turnaround we enjoyed at several of our key businesses. ”

- Rupert Murdoch

“ In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ”

- Julius Caesar

“ Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ”

- Colin Powell

“ Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ”

- Horace

“ They say miracles are past. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ”

- Morris West

“ Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. ”

- John B. Sheerin

“ Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. ”

- Unknown
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