Quotation Collection

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors are finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle

• education
• reading
• books

Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence. James Allen

• thought
• achievement
• accomplishment

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The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie

• risk
• chance

What people require for a good life – and many smart people have written books on this subject – are meaning and purpose. I personally have never met a self-centered person who was happy or content. The happy people I know are serving something greater than themselves – a cause, a religion or a family. Charley Reese

• purpose
• happiness