People Quotes - Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository

Category: People.

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Khalil Gibran
1883 — 1931

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

To be poor may be a misfortune, but it is not a fault.

The men of action are, after all, the uncommon instruments of the men of thought.

Looks will get you there, but a personality will keep you there.

There are three ways a man can be ruined: women, gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

Everyone complains about his memory, but no one complains about his judgment.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

Lao-Tzu
600? — 540? B.C.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Titus Livy
60? B.C. — 17

He who looks you in the eye is not truly listening. It’s the one who looks away that is truly paying attention.

Good laws derive from evil habits.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

All of us are stars and deserve the right to twinkle.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller
1880 — 1968

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he likes.

Robert South
1634 — 1716

Desire is the very essence of man.

There’s none so blind as they who won’t see.

Many wealthy people are little more than the janitors of their possessions.

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