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116 quotesYou must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Goals
Charles C. Noble
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A short absence is the safest.
Absence
Ovid
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Age and Aging
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
Fear
Wendell Parsons
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Writers and Writing
Blaise Pascal
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Uncategorised
Blaise Pascal
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Wealth
Charles Peguy
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
Psychiatry
Laurence J. Peter
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The happier the moment the shorter.
Happiness
Pliny The Elder
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Life is too short to learn German.
Life and Living
R. Porson
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Short judgments make long friends.
Friends and Friendship
Proverb
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
Pleasure
Proverb
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Short prayers reach heaven.
Prayer
Proverb
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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
Politicians and Politics
John P. Roche
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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
Heroes and Heroism
Will Rogers
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Memory
Will Rogers
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Writers and Writing
Bertrand Russell
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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
Life and Living
Harrison Salisbury
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
Example
Seneca
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Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
Cost
William Shakespeare
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Focus
Sydney Smiles
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty
Socrates
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Proverbs
Sophocles
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Talent
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
Anecdotes
Jonathan Swift
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun