Quotes Around The Zodiac: Leo

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QUOTES AROUND THE ZODIAC - LEO
July 23 - August 21/22
July 23, 1944 Lisa Alther:

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting my fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.


July 24, 1898 Amelia Earhart:

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ... Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.


July 25, 1902 Eric Hoffer:

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.


July 26, 1875 Carl Gustav Jung:

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.


July 27, 1674 Isaac Watts:

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.


July 28, 1902 Sir Karl Popper:

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.


July 29, 1805 Alexis de Tocqueville:

Equality is a slogan based on envy.


July 30, 1898 Henry Moore:

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to every minute of the day for your whole life And the most important thing is - it must be something you cannot possibly do!


July 31, 1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr.:

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.


August 1, 1818 Maria Mitchell:

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.


August 2, 1878 Aino Kallas, Finnish writer:

Inspiration? - Without the short ecstasy of inspiration every artistic talent would mean a real life-long slavery of work. After love, the ecstasy of artistic creativity is the greatest human happiness one can have.


August 3, 1905 Maggie Kuhn:

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.


August 4, 1859 Knut Hamsun:

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil, fate.


August 5, 1850 Guy de Maupassant:

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.


August 6, 1715 Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues:

Few men would be happy if others had the determining of their occupation and pleasures.


August 7, 1860 Grandma Moses:

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.


August 8, 1884 Sara Teasdale:

It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.


August 9, 1922 Philip Larkin:

Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can treetrunk off.


August 10, 1874 Herbert Hoover:

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.


August 11, 1833 Robert G. Ingersoll:

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.


August 12, 1866 Jacinto Benavente:

I don't write plays for the audience, but educate audience for my plays.


August 13, 1927 Fidel Castro:

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.


August 14, 1867 John Galsworthy:

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.


August 15, 1769 Napoleon:

The heart of a statesman must be in his head.