"Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one."

-- Alexander Pope

#Self Quotes #Giving Quotes #Advice Quotes

“Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.”
“No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.”

Source : Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright
“It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.”

Source : Charles Robert Maturin (2016). “Melmoth the Wanderer”, p.282, Charles Robert Maturin
“Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.”
“How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot." "That's universal?" "No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow." Amy moved.”
“Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.”
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”

Source : Marabel Morgan (1986). “The Electric Woman”
“The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.”

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