Quotes of Magnify - somelinesforyou

“ There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ There is no one who does not exaggerate! ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. ”

- Edward Young

“ Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ”

- Isaac Stern

“ We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination. down our earth to rake. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ I don't exaggerate - I just remember big. ”

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

“ It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility. ”

- George Santayana

“ Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ”

- Andrew V. Mason

“ Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. ”

- Deborah Tannen

“ To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. ”

- Johann von Goethe

“ Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Luck is good planning, carefully executed. ”

- Unknown

“ You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it. ”

- Henry Moore

“ It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift. ”

- Nadia Boulanger

“ Luck is good planning, carefully executed. ”

- Unknown

“ I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Chance works for us when we are good captains. ”

- George Meredith

“ Motivation triggers luck. ”

- Mike Wallace

“ Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. ”

- Susan M. Dodd

“ Your luck is how you treat people. ”

- Bridget O’Donnell

“ Half of them are suicides or accidents, Martha. Don't exaggerate. ”

- Clint Eastwood

“ One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare. ”

- Mark Twain

“ To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities. ”

- Bernard Weisberger
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