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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton

Success, High, Measure

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Power, Win, Down

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, Deep, Why

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Why, Reason

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams

Beautiful, Enough, Garden

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success, High, Top

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Good, Sense

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Life, Worth, Lucky

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success, High, Hit

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Voltaire

Excellent, Top, Middle

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac

Mother, Heart, Deep

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Richard Dawkins

Respect, May, Agnostic

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley

Write, Themselves, Influence

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling

Life, Fear, Rock

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Love, Crazy, Children

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
Donald Trump

Time, Business, America

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Common, Labor

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington

Education, Religion, Politics

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Zedong

Different, Small, Big

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin

Great, Mistakes, Pride

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard

Between, Lies, Strangers

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Denis Waitley

Integrity, Before, Line

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins

Good, Design, Evil

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac

Bring, Pleasure, Pearls

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Heart, Free

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
Charles Stanley

Life, Christian, Word

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
Robert H. Schuller

Whole, Top, Middle

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

Wise, Learn, Line

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. Nixon

Life, History, Crisis

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell

Technology, Students, Top

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