New One-liners

The Formula One race from Montréal was red flagged for a good two hours and right now we’re running behind the safety car. I used the time to dig up a few more one-liners for you. Enjoy.

  • “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” - Dalai Lama
  • “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” - Dalai Lama
  • “Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” - Dalai Lama
  • “Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” - Dale Carnegie
  • “Most of us have for more courage than we ever dreamed possible.” - Dale Carnegie
  • “You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.” - Dale Carnegie
  • “The cure for boredom in curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker
  • “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” - Douglas Adams
  • “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “What one has to do usually can be done.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “You always admire what you really don’t understand.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” - Elvis Presley
  • “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “A politician divides mankind into two classes: Tools and enemies.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “He who has a why to live can bear with almost any who.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “There are no facts, only interpretations.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.” - G.K. Chesterton
  • “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” - George Bernhard Shaw
  • “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.” - George Bernhard Shaw
  • “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” - George Bernhard Shaw
  • “Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.” - George Bernhard Shaw
  • “Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.” - George Carlin
  • “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” - George Washington
  • “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” - Goethe
  • “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” - Goethe
  • “I have nothing but respect for you - and not much of it.” - Groucho Marx
  • “I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.” - Groucho Marx
  • “Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.” - Groucho Marx
  • “Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, and I’m going to be happy in it.” - Groucho Marx
  • “Advertising is legalized lying.” - H.G. Wells
  • “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” - H.G. Wells
  • “Our true nationality is mankind.” - H.G. Wells
  • “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” - Henry Ford
  • “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” - Henry Ford
  • “The only real mistake is the one from where we learn nothing.” - Henry Ford
  • “Vision without execution is just hallucination.” - Henry Ford
  • “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t - you’re right.” - Henry Ford

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