Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Half of maturity consists of knowing when and how to be immature.[Chris Bowyer] Quote:Business today consists in persuading crowds.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.[Robert Frost] Quote:Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.[Aristotle] Quote:The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.[Mark Twain] Quote:Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.[George Berkeley] Quote:Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.[Albert Camus] Quote:Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson] Quote:Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.[George Santayana] Quote:Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. [Alan Corenk] Quote:My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. [Aristotle] Quote:The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. [Peter Drucker] Quote:The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. [Alfred Lord Tennyson] Quote:The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. [Alfred Lord Tennyson] Definitions of: consistDefinition: To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.Definition: To be composed or made up; -- followed by of. Definition: To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in. Definition: To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with. Definition: To insist; -- followed by on. |
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