Three Quotes - page 7

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius)
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches. View quote
Roberto Durán
Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, "tell the truth." If I got three more words, I'd add: "All the time." View quote
Randy Pausch
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. View quote
Smedley Butler
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Three things are to be looked to in a building that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness. View quote
Winston Churchill
When I warned the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken some neck. View quote
Winston Churchill
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Love is three quarters curiosity. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. View quote
Voltaire
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. (Christopher Morley)
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. View quote
Laozi
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. View quote
Matt Groening