(709 quotes found)
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
Flavia Weedn
“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.”
Dalai Lama
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.”
Mark Twain
“Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.”
Turkish Proverb
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”
Dave Barry
“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.”
Chinese Proverbs
“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”
Charles F. Kettering
“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck -- and, of course, courage.”
Bill Cosby
“Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?”
Carrie P. Snow
