"One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune."

-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#Motivational Quotes #Character Quotes #Important Quotes

“The hard reality is that the omelette has been made and you cannot get your egg back.”
“Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.”

Source : Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.5, Univ of California Press
“Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.”
“A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 4, 13,
“As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.”
“I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.”

Source : "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.
“Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.”

You may also like: