tattoo quotes about strength

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Author Unknown



Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield



To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana



Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~Hugh Sidey



Beware the fury of a patient man. ~John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680



Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ~Roger Caras



To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed. ~Edna O'Brien



Precaution is better than cure. ~Edward Coke



Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner



Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf



Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~Syrus



Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. ~George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," Shooting an Elephant, 1950



Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. ~Lewis Mumford



Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt



In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. ~Imbesi's Conservation of Filth Law



If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ~Arnold Palmer