Quotable "Quotes"

I'm proud to present a selection of some of the famous quotes (usually by famous people; but some of them may be the not-so-famous) compiled by me. Maybe the sequential order in which the quotes appear could've been sorted, somewhat (which I didn't feel the need to do, the lazy pig that I'm). Nevertheless, all of them are quite thought provoking, and some of them may even change the way you think, if I may say so (there are some that certainly changed my perception of certain things; and if the same thing happens to you, do let me know through your comments). Ok, the preamble ends here.


i> "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles" (Charlie Chaplin).

ii> "A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults" (Don Corleone, taken from the novel "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo)

iii> "Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invented the plane and the pessimist the parachute" (Gil Stern).

iv> "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you're constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised" (George Will).

v> "The biggest enemy of future success is past success" (picked up this one from an Azim Premji interview).

vi> "People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first" (David H. Comins)
(this is precisely the reason why I've made it a point to mention the source of every quote that I've put down here :-)

vii> "You'll never achieve 100% if 99% is okay" (Will Smith).

viii> "Whatever level you reach, getting better never stops" (Sachin Tendulkar, in the adidas advertisement).

ix> "There are low moments in every player's (read person's) career. That doesn't mean I'll lock myself in and brood" (Sourav Ganguly, in a times of india interview)

x> (this is the wittiest of the lot) "They say marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning" (Clint Eastwood).

xi> "I'm always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it" (Pablo Picasso).

xii> "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity" (Leo Tolstoy).

xiii> "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy" (Cynthia Nelms).

xiv> "Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're usually right" (Henry Ford).

xv> "Temptation usually comes in from a door that has been deliberately left open" ( Arnold Glasow).

xvi> "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong" (Edward Gibbon).

xvii> (one of my favourites)"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" (Sydney J. Harris).

xviii> "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear" (Mark Twain).

xix> "To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born" (AP Gouthev).

xx> "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed" (T. Roosevelt).

Well....the list ends here but I've a few more of these up my sleeve; and I'll keep my eyes and ears open (as I seldom do) so that I can pounce on any more quotable quotes (of good quality; and they also have to undergo the arduous task of trying to get my approval, or meeting with international standards....it's the same thing actually:-). As soon as I successfully compile another list, the first thing I'm going to do is post it here, so don't you guys worry :-)