Phyllis Bottome Famous Quotes
"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome Quotations
"Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed."
Buddha
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.
George Whitehead
"Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me."
Gravestone from the 1800 s
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."
Josh Billings
"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."
James Allen
"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."
Robert Half
"I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive."
Mark Twain
"He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."
Thomas Jefferson