Engelse Spreuken en Uitdrukkingen

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• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
• A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
• After all is said and done, more is said than done.
• All for one and one for all.
• All that glitters is not gold.
• An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
• Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
• Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?
• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
• Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• Education is not the filling of a pail but rather the lighting of a fire.
• Enjoy when you can and endure when you must.
• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
• Getting something done is an accomplishment, getting something done right is an achievement.

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• Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
• I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than by an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep.
• I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
• If you are going through hell, keep going.
• If you can actually count your money then you are not a rich man.
• If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror.
• In the end it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
• In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
• Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life.
• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

• Knowledge is power.
• Life is a play, it’s not its length but its performance that counts.
• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
• Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.
• Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another.
• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
• Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
• Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral that they can imagine.
• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
• Only a fool learns from his own mistakes, the wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
• Only those who keep trying eventually win.
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
• Respect yourself and others will respect you.
• Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
• Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
• Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
• Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
• The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday and tomorrow.
• The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
• The customer is never wrong.
• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
• The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own.
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
• The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to get rid of it.
• The only way to have a friend is to be one.
• The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
• The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
• The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
• To the soul there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible
• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
• We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves.
• We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.
• We don’t stop playing because we grow, we grow old because we stop playing.
• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
• When making your choices in life, do not forget to live.
• What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.
• Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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