Quotes Quiz Flashcards
“It all comes…”
“It all comes down to the big D: D for discipline.”
-Mrs. Asselta
“Good lives are…”
“Good lives are made so by discipline.”
-Sophocles
“Only the truly…”
“Only the truly disciplined person is free.”
“I’ve never known…”
“I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart didn’t appreciate the grind the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for, needs the discipline.”
-Vince Lombardi
“Character cannot be…”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through the experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
-Helen Keller
“Knowledge makes a…”
“Knowledge makes a bloody entry.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
“Experience: the most…”
“Experience: the most brutal of teachers, but you learn…do you learn!”
-C.S. Lewis
“The educated differ…”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
-Aristotle
“Know…”
“Know thyself.”
-Sophocles
“Criticize a conceited…”
“Criticize a conceited man, and he will hate you for it. Criticize a wise man, and he will respect you for it.”
-Proverbs
“Gratitude is not…”
“Gratitude is not only the parent of all virtues. It is the greatest of all virtues.”
-Cicero
“The way of…”
“The way of a sluggard is hemmed in as with thorns. The path of the diligent is a highway.”
-Proverbs
“One of the…”
“One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man’s paralyzing trauma is another man’s invitation to take control of his life. One woman’s grounds for insanity is another woman’s goad to a dramatic shaping of oneself.”
-Rosellen Brown
“If you think…”
“If you think you can’t, you won’t.”
-James Allen
“A man is…”
“A man is three persons: the person he thinks he is, the person others think he is, and the person God knows he is.”
-Samuel Johnson
“Speak not for…”
“Speak not for the fools hearing. He will despise the wisdom of your words.”
-Proverbs
“Whether you think…”
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
-Henry Ford
“Nothing great was…”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Seek not to…”
“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but seek to believe that you may understand.”
-St. Augustine
“Life ends. Art…”
“Life ends. Art is forever.”
-John Keats
“Preach the gospel…”
“Preach the gospel. Use words if necessary.”
-St. Francis
“If it is…”
“If it is to be, it is up to me.”
“Men are masters…”
“Men are masters of their own fate.”
-William Shakespeare
“If you tell…”
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
-Mark Twain
