Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes. ”

- Steve Backley

“ Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well! ”

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele