The man who dies rich, dies disgraced
ANDREW CARNEGIE
ANDREW CARNEGIE
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A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owing real estate.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie tall oaks from little acorns grow.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie That best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand.
OshoOsho Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.
Michael ScottMichael Scott In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more of a stepping off point.
Chadwick BosemanChadwick Boseman If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Kurt CobainKurt Cobain To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I’ve got.
Kurt CobainKurt Cobain