proverbs 14

Proverbs, fourteen

 
 

Here are some sayings or proverbs. What do they mean? Do you agree with them? Give examples from real life.
 
 
131. “Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.” Dave Gardner, comedian
 
 

132. “The world is not divided between ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’, but ‘can dos’ and ‘can’t dos’.” Miguel de Cervantes, Writer
 
 

133a. “I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” Pearl Buck, Novelist

133b. “Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.” Samuel Johnson, Essayist, Lexicographer

133c. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
 
 

134. “You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Great
 
 

135. “There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.” Jim Rohn, author, speaker
 
 

136. “Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with. Good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with.” Brian Tracy, author, speaker
 
 

137. “We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own . . . Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do…Sanity means tying it to your own actions.” Marcus Aurelius
 
 

138. “To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.” John Glenn, astronaut
 
 

139. “The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” Roger Bannister, Athletic Runner 
 

140. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” Helen Keller

 
 

 
 

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