“Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.”
Herbert Hoover
Category: Quotes to Consider
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Quote to Consider: The Power of Scapegoating
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Quote to Consider: Permission to Fail… Granted
“The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. … When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.”Eloise Ristad
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Quote to Consider: The Loaded Compliment
“Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.”Kin Hubbard
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Quote to Consider: Reality’s Sharp Edges
“Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.”C. S. Lewis
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Quote to Consider: Your Will or Your Won’t?
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.”Henry Ward Beecher
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Quote to Consider: Before Pointing the Finger
“It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent… they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness, or some provocation.”Robert Hugh Benson
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Quote to Consider: The Greater Compliment
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”George Macdonald
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Quote to Consider: Strong Boss or Weak?
“Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.”W. Somerset Maugham
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Quote to Consider: As Good As Sex
“The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger…. And if you’re in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it’s just as good as sex.”Lou Centlivre
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Quote to Consider: What Money Can’t Buy
“It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can’t buy.”George Horace Lorimer