Inspirational Quotes
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
— Daniel H. Burnham
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
— Steve Jobs
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
— Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
— J. Arthur Thomson
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
— Charles Dickens
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner’s manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
— Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
— Malayan Proverb
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
— Arthur Ashe
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
Hoi Polloi
(noun)
[hoi' pah-LOI]
1. the common people; the masses: "We may have less down time, but today, the hoi polloi have access to services and technology that kings of the past did not even dream of."
Origin:
Approximately 1837; from Greek, ‘hoi’: from the + ‘polloi’: the people, literally, the many, from ‘polys.’
In action:
"Well, call me over-excited. Call me sentimental too. Call me worse if you want: I’ll only keep lobbing it back till I get bored. But with all of this in mind I’m going to embrace Saturday’s amazing match as a reason to be cheerful about my homeland. As a game of football it reaffirmed everything the FA Cup is meant to be about, all the adventure, drama and unpredictability inherent in a sudden death competition that, in its early stages at least, gives the hoi polloi a chance to tumble the aristocracy. For all the erosion of its status in recent years, no other nation embraces its knock-out competition and those fantastic qualities the way we do."
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