"What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are."

Mckay, David O. | Learning | 1 bookmarks

"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."

Givens, Charles J. | Failure | 5 bookmarks

"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears."

Benson, Arthur Christopher | Fear | 3 bookmarks

"There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away."

Christie, Agatha | Conversation | 2 bookmarks

"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."

Twain, Mark | Losers and Losing | 6 bookmarks

"Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss."

Riley, Pat | Losers and Losing | 4 bookmarks

"Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past."

Percy, Walker | Grief | 4 bookmarks

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

Aurelius, Marcus | Losers and Losing | 6 bookmarks

"Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice."

Churchill, Winston | Communism and Socialism | 1 bookmarks

"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

Shakespeare, William | Losers and Losing | 3 bookmarks