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mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
self-improvement principles improving-yourself
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. Benjamin Haydon
self-improvement obscure strive
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Baltasar Gracian
self-improvement positive-change clear
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. Brian Tracy
self-improvement progress trouble
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. Berthold Auerbach
self-improvement world doe
A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it. Alfred Korzybski
self-improvement martial-arts personal-development
Take what's useful, discard what is not. Bruce Lee
self-improvement size persons
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry Dale Carnegie
self-improvement improvement should
I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head. Anne Robinson
self-improvement good-enough be-good
Being good enough never is. Debbi Fields
youth young
Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young. David Rakoff
youth
In [my] youth I was smacked around. Arnold Schwarzenegger
youth
The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life. Dick Clark
youth hold-fast
Hold fast to youth and beauty. Elizabeth Arden
youth tenacity charming
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions. Agnes Repplier
youth social made
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities. Charles Fourier
youth said
It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said. Anton Chekhov
youth indignation
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. Chris Evans
youth-of-today effort tables
Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly. Dean Koontz