#attributed

Ego is the world's worst narcotic ↗

— Mekael Shane

#human-nature #humor #spiritual #life

Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#procrastination #procrastination

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed-to-poe #persistence #persistence

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#education #england #may #neglect #portion

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attributed #british #dinner #great #great success

I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#cholesterol #directly #eat #energy #feel

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#any #attributed #believe #columns #day

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #change

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#beauty

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. ↗

— Leon C. Megginson

#change #charles-darwin #darwin #intelligence #misattributed