Quotes of Baltasar Gracian

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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

- Baltasar Gracian

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“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ Be Brave, Be Bold! Never allow fear to dictate your choices. Use your VOICE & trust in your abilities. ”

- Rosalie Bardo

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ Anything that makes weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ”

- Swami Vivekananda

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ Our children will be counted, and justice will be served. Our babies deserve a fair chance at life. We are our children’s groundbreakers; therefore, we cannot give up. We might run out of breath but we must have the willpower when moving forward to fight for our children’s voices to be heard. Bullying is not accepted ”

- Charlena E. Jackson