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561 quotesWhen people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Complaints and Complaining
Ernest Renan
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Risk
Agnes Repplier
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Variety
Jean Paul Richter
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
Life and Living
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Failure
Anthony Robbins
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Mercy
Frederick W. Robertson
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Excellence
Anita Roddick
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Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
Improvement
Will Rogers
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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Change
Jim Rohn
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Maturity
Jim Rohn
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There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
Influence
Jim Rohn
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Whatever good things we build end up building us.
self-esteem
Jim Rohn
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And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Death and Dying
Christina Rossetti
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Science and Scientists
Jean Rostand
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Admiration
Jean Rostand
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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Belief
Leo Rosten
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We see things as we are, not as they are.
Appearance
Leo Rosten
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Confession
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Events
Salman Rushdie
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The best thing in life aren't things.
Value
John Ruskin
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Happiness
Bertrand Russell
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A committee of one gets things done.
Committees and Meetings
Joe Ryan
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Patience
Saadi
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Wisdom
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Happiness
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun