"We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#Friendship Quotes #Done Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
“When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.”

Source : "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1949.
“The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.”
“Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born.”
“My department is to get actors to do stuff.”
“American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.”
“Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.”
“I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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