“An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 204 of 709
“Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.”
“Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.”
“Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.”
“[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.”
“As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.”
“Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.”
“Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.”
“Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.”
“Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.”
“We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.”
“At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.”
“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.”
“I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.”
“Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.”
“The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine”
“People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.”
“I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.”
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.”
“The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.”