Ninety Quotes

• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Past, Forget

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• Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

  Cory Lidle

  Ninety Nine, Air, Land

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• Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

  David Hasselhoff

  Ninety Nine, People, Call Me

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• Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  Buddy Hackett

  Cocky, Ninety Nine, Voice

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• Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

  Tom Clancy

  Wall, College, People

  Tom Clancy (2004). “The Teeth Of The Tiger”, p.157, Penguin

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• Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Son, Tree, Boss

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

  Mindy Kaling

  Adventure, Littles, Subway

  "The Funny Side of Love". nymag.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

  M. F. Husain

  Ninety Nine, People, Stills

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• Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Science

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• And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 27, 2016

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Baseball, Home

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• I really didn't say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Silly, Mlb, Dumb

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Mar. 1986

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• Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Positivity, Ninety Nine, Soul

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• Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Ninety Nine, Advertising

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• Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

  Kevin Bacon

  Five, Percent

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• People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

  Dick Van Patten

  Snakes, People, And Love

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• Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Invisible, Percent, Who You Are

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• Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Ninety Nine, People

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

  Chris Evert

  Focus And Concentration, Games, Tennis

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• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Law, Members

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