What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez
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Top ranked:
| Quote | Autor | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record... | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | 5.0 |
| We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 5.0 |
| We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. | Agnes Repplier | 5.0 |
Recently ranked:
| Quote | Autor | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| We must conquer war, or war will conquer us. | Ely Gulbertson | 3.0 |
| Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste. | Saadi | 2.0 |
| What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. | Hansell B. Duckett | 1.5 |
Picked randomly:
| Quote | Autor | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship. | Real Live Preacher | |
| When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. | Marquis de la Grange | |
| When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced... | Brendan Behan |
Commonly ranked:
| Quote | Autor | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into... | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | 3.1 |
| Walking is also an ambulation of mind. | Gretel Ehrlich | 3.0 |
| Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. | Thomas Jefferson | 3.0 |