"A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized."

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Lazy Quotes #Three Quotes #Action Quotes

“I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.”

Source : "Jimmie Johnson Interview: Respect Is The Thing I Want The Most". Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.sbnation.com. September 14, 2011.
“If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.”

Source : "Pitbull's Rise To Fame Has Been 'An Education'". www.mtv.com. September 02, 2009.
“his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.421, A&C Black
“As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Then you will be better able to help others -those who are working, in their turn, to find a safe harbor from the storms that rage about them.”
“I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.”
“"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish."”

Source : "Introduction to Astronomy" by F. R. Moulton, New York, (p. 199), 1906.
“It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.”
“Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.”

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