What’s Your “Refined” Quote?
What are some of the best quotes you’ve heard over the years that spell “R-E-F-I-N-E-D” to you? Post yours as a comment to be considered for approval and inclusion here. Here are a few to start it off:
- “Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and simple minds talk about other people”
- “Life is what happens to you while you’re working for your future”
- “The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them”
“You are only as good as your word.”
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
“No matter how many times you push the elevator button, it will not come any faster.. not until the right time comes..”
“Education is a large step at achieving a bright future or would you rather be stuck in the dark?”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
Buddha
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.
~Johann Casper Lavater
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act , but a habit.”
~Aristotle
‘Dress badly and appears a bad dress, dress real good and appears a woman’ … That’s my line!
by Coco Channel
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Truely a great man.
‘Express your mind by your way’ and ‘Be the best as you are’.