Quotes of Jean Baptiste Colbert

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

- Jean Baptiste Colbert

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“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

“ You don't need a million dollars in the bank. You just have to have passion, hustle and drive ”

- Daymond John

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ 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

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ God's plans for you are always good and purposeful. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. ”

- Anthony de Mello

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth