The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
- Grenville Kleiser
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If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
- A. Neilen
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Happiness ... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
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Pleasure is a reciprocal; no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please.
- Lord Chesterfield
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He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
- Bible
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
- Blaise Pascal
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
- Chinese proverb
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When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
- Anonymous
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One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
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The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
- Vi Putnam
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
- Dick Gregory
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Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least.
- Charley Willey
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seeks a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
- Frances Ridley Havergal
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The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
- Lionel Barrymore
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There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
- Henry Drummond
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Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
- Chinese proverb
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True happiness consists in making others happy.
- Hindu proverb
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All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
- Lord Byron
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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Norman MacEwan
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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
- Charlotte Bronte
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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
- Jane Porter
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
- Agnes Repplier
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Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
- Spanish proverb
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A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
- English proverb
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
- Maria Edgeworth
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Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world ... when we buy it for someone else.
- Paul Flemming
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To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
- Jane Porter
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Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.
- Stuart Cloete
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Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell, 0 storms! Farewell.
- Louise Imogen Guiney
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
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1 am happy and content because I think I am.
- Alain-Rene Lesage
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All happiness is in the mind.
- Anonymous
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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
- Alice Meynell
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
- Cicero
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The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.
- Barbara Pletcher
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
- William Lyon Phelps
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Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
- Paul Bourge
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He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
- Thomas Fuller
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
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We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
- Joseph Joubert
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
- Bernard de Fontenelle
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It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.
- Anonymous
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A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I went back to being an amateur, in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work, routine sets in, and that's the death of work and life.
- Ada Bethune
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The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
- John D. Rockefeller III
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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
- Francis Bacon
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Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
- Harriet Martineau
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
- William Ralph Inge
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
- Arthur Christopher Benson
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey
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If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"
- Frederick H. Ecker
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To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.
- Frederick E. Crane
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Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
- Sir Theodore Martin
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Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.
- David Grayson
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Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.
- M. C. Mcintosh
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
- Honore de Balzac
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There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
- Gelett Burgess
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Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
- Robert Burton
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
- Leo C. Rosten
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
- Samuel Johnson
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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
- Bertrand Russell
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.
- E. Merrill Root
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.
- John Burroughs
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Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
- William Butler Yeats
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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
- John Ruskin
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Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
- Jane Howard
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
- Anita Baker
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
- Johann von Goethe
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My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
- Anna Quindlen
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Anne Ridler
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What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
- Jean Illsley Clarke
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Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.
- Robert J. Havighurst
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Where thou art, that is home.
- Emily Dickinson
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Parenting, at its best, comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic, involuntary, unconditional love.
- Sally James
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If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
- A. Edward Newton
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There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water.
- Ivy Baker Priest
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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
- Stella Benson
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.
- Julia Child
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An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
- Ouida
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My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet, I kiss her feet.
- Marguerite Wilkinson
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Margaret Fuller
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No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
- Lydia M. Child
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He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
- Anonymous
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If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut-our home.
- Nathaniel Cotton
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
- Douglas Jerrold
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A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
- Diana, Princess of Wales
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He who would be happy should stay at home.
- Greek proverb
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Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.
- Shere Hite
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Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.
- Shirley Abbott
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All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.
- Saint Mary Margaret d'Youville
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There's a thread that binds all of us together, pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.
- Rosamond Marshall
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
- Han Suyin
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
- Phyllis Bottome
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In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.
- Donald Law
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Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
- Zona Gale
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.
- Bernie S. Siegel
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
- Doris Lessing
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Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
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Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
- Sue Patton Thoele
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Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."
- Anonymous
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The best things in life aren't things.
- Ann Landers
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
- B. C. Forbes
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
- Bette Davis
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I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have awaited my call, nor does any earthly blessing seem to have been wanting ... I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness that have fallen to my lot; they amount to fourteen.
- Abd al-Rahman
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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
- Marilyn Monroe
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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
- William Barclay
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Hope costs nothing.
- Colette
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Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.
- Bertha Damon
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Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
- Prince
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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
- Clement R. Attlee
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
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Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde
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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
- Chuck Noll
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
- Aristotle
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Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money, "making it" or success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
- B. C. Forbes
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- EH. Bradley
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Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
- Gail Parent
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An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.
- Lady Isabel Burton
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There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
- Olive Schreiner
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
- Sophocles
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
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Better be happy than wise.
- Anonymous
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- Colette
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With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.
- Chinese proverb
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
- Helen Keller
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- Sophocles
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The genius of happiness is still so rare, is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.
- Ellen Key
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
- Doris Lessing
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Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.
- John Masefield
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
- Joseph Joubert
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
- Rumer Godden
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
- Johann von Goethe
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
- Norman Bradburn
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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
- Andre Maurois
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Bertrand Russell
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
- Joseph Joubert
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And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself; may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
- Horace
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Behold, we count them happy which endure.
- Bible
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The will of man is his happiness.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
- Charlton Ogburn
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
- Anonymous
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Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
- Anonymous
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Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
- Anonymous
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
- Bertrand Russell
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It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.
- Zeno
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.
- E. R. Stettinius
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No man can be merry unless he is serious.
- G. K. Chesterton
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Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
- Virgil
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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
- Robert Henri
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
- Anatole France
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
- Dennis Wholey
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- The Dalai Lama
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Anonymous
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
- John Gunther
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
- G. K. Chesterton
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To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
- W. H. Auden
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
- Charles L. Morgan
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
- Sigmund Freud
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
- Pearl S. Buck
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
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Everyone only goes around the track once in life, and if you don't enjoy that trip, it's pretty pathetic.
- Gary Rogers
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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
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The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
- Anonymous
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Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late.
- Robert R. Updegraff
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Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.
- Bernadette Roberts
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Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
- Channing Pollock
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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.
- Joseph Farrell
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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
- E. V. Lucas
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
- Thornton Wilder
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
- Arthur Rubinstein
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
- John Stuart Mill
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
- Sophocles
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
- Stendhal
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M. Schulz
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People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
- Ken Keyes
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
- Anonymous
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For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
- Bette Howland
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Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Tom Walsh
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?
- Jane Austen
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Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.
- Anonymous
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No pleasure without pain.
- Anonymous
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But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
- Oriana Fallaci
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Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.
- Anonymous
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
- Pearl Bailey
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So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
- Carl Jung
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
- Anonymous
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
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Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.
- Don Marquis
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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
- John Stuart Mill
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
- Chuang-tzu
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Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
- George Sand
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There are men who are happy without knowing it.
- Vauvenargues
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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
- Emily Dickinson
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Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?
- William Lyon Phelps
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
- Colette
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Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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We are all happy, if we only knew it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
- Emily Dickinson
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Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
- Mark Twain
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better.
- Laurie Anderson
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
- Margaret Atwood
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The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.
- Ella Baker
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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
- Melody Beattie
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
- Maxim Gorky
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
- Christian Bovee
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
- Doug Larson
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Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
- Lady Marguerite Blessington
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If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.
- John Lancaster Spalding
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The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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My heart is like a singing bird.
- Christina Georgina Tossetti
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.
- William Lyon Phelps
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
- Joseph Roux
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
- Gabrielle Roy
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
- Anne Rice
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No man is happy unless he believes he is.
- Publilius Syrus
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
- Johann von Goethe
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
- Katharine Hepburn
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We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
- Pierre Corneille
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Happiness is not the end of life; character is.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
- H. L. Mencken
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
- Agnes Repplier
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We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
- Ken Keyes
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That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
- Jane Austen
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
- Bernard de Fontenelle
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
- Katharine Hepburn
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Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.
- Judy Tatelbaum
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He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
- Thomas Fuller
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That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.
- Euripides
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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
- Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
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Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
- Samuel Johnson
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Life delights in life.
- William Blake
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I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
- Joseph Roux
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?
- Anonymous
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As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy, mate�no one cares if you ain't."
- Ralph Ricketts
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I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life�even when it's a kick in the teeth.
- Paula Adler
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Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard
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Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
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When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.
- Graham Wilson
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I look better, feel better, make love better, and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.
- George Burns
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number.
- Beccaria
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What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
- Richard Owen Cambridge
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
- George William Curtis
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
- Douglas Jerrold
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We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
- La Rochefoucauld
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
- Margaret Oliphant
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill
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Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
- Mme. Jeanne P. Roland
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle. Unless you die of something.
- Guindon Cartoon
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You can't lose weight without exercise. But I've got a philosophy about exercise. I don't think you should punish your legs for something your mouth did. Drag your lips around the block once or twice.
- Gary Owens
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To improve your memory, lend people money.
- Anonymous
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Health food makes me sick.
- Calvin Trillin
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She is such a health food nut, she thinks a grape is wine in pill form.
- Elmer Pasta
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
- Ben Franklin
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Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.
- Jacob Braude
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I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
- Erma Bombeck
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Lord, if you can't make me thin� can you make all my friends fat?
- Judy Hampton
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If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged but not until I get down to size eight.
- Henriette Montel
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My husband lost a lot of weight on a new diet, and I resent it. It's simple, he just doesn't eat when I'm talking.
- Wendy Morgan
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I've been on every diet in the world. The best one is the BBC diet: Buy Bigger Clothes.
- Gary Owens
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
- Vicki Baum
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Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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I won't say I'm out of condition now� but I even puff going downstairs.
- Dick Gregory
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I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
- Anonymous
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Your medical tests are in. You're short, fat, and bald.
- Tom Wilson
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The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.
- Franklin P. Jones
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My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.
- Anonymous
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My doctor said I look like a million dollars� green and wrinkled.
- Red Skelton
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They say the Japanese don't experience menopause or hot flashes. If that's the case, why are they the number-one fan-producing country in the world?
- Wendy Morgan
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doctor to stout patient: You've been swallowing your food again.
- Anonymous
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Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.
- Robert Orben
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For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
- Lily Tomlin
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I don't give my weight. I weigh a hundred and plenty.
- Wendy Morgan
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His idea of exercise is walking to his vitamins.
- Casey Fenton
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Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.
- A. P. Herbert
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There must be something to acupuncture� after all, you never see any sick porcupines.
- Bob Goddard
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Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.
- Bob Rubin
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I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.
- Rita Rudner
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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
- W. C. Fields
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I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
- Joan Rivers
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I'm not that much into working out. My philosophy�no pain, no pain.
- Toni Anderson
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
- Walter Mattbau
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Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.
- Barbara Enberg
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Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.
- David Letterman
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He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
- Arabian proverb
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
- Bulwer-Lytton
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Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
- Mary Baker Eddy
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The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
- Wendell Phillips
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The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
- Voltaire
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
- A. P. Herbert
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It is a long lane that has no turning.
- Old saying
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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
- Eric Hoffer
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous
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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
- Thornton Wilder
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson
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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
- La Rochefoucauld
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One need not hope in order to undertake; nor succeed in order to persevere.
- William the Silent
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Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
- George Herbert
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.
- Alexander Pope
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I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
- Martin Luther
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- Francis Bacon
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Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
- Satya Sai Baba
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One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.
- William F. Lynch
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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
- Norman Cousins
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Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
- Robert Schuller
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The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
- Leston L. Havens
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Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
- Carl Sandburg
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'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.
- Emily Dickinson
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It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
- Harriet Martineau
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller
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None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.
- William Hazlitt
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Wonder ... music heard in the heart, is voiceless.
- Rosemary Dobson
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To all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
- Bible
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Everybody lives for something better to come.
- Anonymous
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson
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At first we hope too much; later on, not enough.
- Joseph Roux
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Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain
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He who does not hope to win has already lost.
- Jose Joaquin Olmedo
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We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
- John F. Kennedy
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Bertrand Russell
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Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
- Charles Sawyer
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Tom Bodett
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In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
- Samuel Johnson
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Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller
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Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
- LeRoy Douglas
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.
- Harvey Milk
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Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
- Robert Burton
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It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
- Helen Keller
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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
- Mother Teresa
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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
- Ouida
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And thou shalt be secure because there is hope.
- Bible
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Hope! Of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley
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Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope.
- John Armstrong
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Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
- Dr. Karl Menninger
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
- Bernie S. Siegel
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We must have hope or starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck
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When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
- Hal Lindsey
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hope is the last thing ever lost.
- Italian proverb
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Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
- Catherine de Hueck Doherty
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Now the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope.
- Bible
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Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
- Anonymous
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My faith is important. I have nothing without it.
- Kathy Ireland
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Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come.
- Sydney Smith
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There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
- Vauvenargues
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Hope is the parent of faith.
- C. A. Bartol
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Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
- George lies
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No hope, no action.
- Peter Levi
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Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
- Thomas Fuller
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
- William Sloane Coffin
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Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
- John Armstrong
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Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
- Anonymous
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Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
- Jeremy Collier
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Eric Hoffer
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
- Pliny, the Elder
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Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle
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Hope is but the dream of those that wake.
- Matthew Prior
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Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.
- L. J. Cardinal Suenens
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Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.
- Anonymous
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Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
- Anonymous
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The miserable have no medicine but hope.
- William Shakespeare
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Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
- Johann von Goethe
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Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
- Emil Brunner
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All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
- Julian of Norwich
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
- Jacques Cousteau
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Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.
- Mary Todd Lincoln
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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
- Orison Swett Marden
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"Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.
- Robert Orben
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Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
- Robert Burton
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Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.
- Julia Dorr
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Patience is the art of hoping.
- Vauvenargues
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- Tertullian
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All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas
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Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
- Vincent NcNabb
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
- John Milton
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
- Baruch Spinoza
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I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.
- Thomas Jefferson
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When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
- Charles L. Allen
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There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
- Clare Boothe Luce
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Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
- George Weinberg
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Other men see only a hopeless end, but the Christian rejoices in an endless hope.
- Gilbert M. Beeken
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Never despair.
- Horace
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One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
- A. J. Cronin
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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
- Bertrand Russell
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
- Sir Walter Scott
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
- Lin Yutang
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Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."
- Anonymous
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While there's life, there's hope.
- Terence
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When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.
- O. Carl Simonton
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Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
- John F. Kennedy
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
- Gary Herbert
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Samuel Johnson
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Hope is a risk that must be run.
- Georges Bernanos
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Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
- Dr. Karl Menninger
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
- Thomas Hobbes
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Hope is a satisfaction unto itself, and need not be fulfilled to be appreciated.
- Dr. Fred O. Henker
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
- Ambrose Bierce
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To hope is to enjoy.
- Jacques Delille
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Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean.
- Paul Moon James
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- Victor Hugo
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
- Vaclav Havel
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
- Honore de Balzac
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
- G. K. Chesterton
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Honor begets honor, trust begets trust, faith begets faith, and hope is the mainspring of life.
- Henry L. Stimson
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Hope is a song in a weary throat.
- Pauli Murray
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Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.
- Katherine Paterson
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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits a lighter ray.
- Oliver Goldsmith
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Grass grows at last above all graves.
- Julia Dorr
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The happy ending is our national belief.
- Mary McCarthy
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Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
- Cynthia Nelms
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
- Alexander Pope
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Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
- Petronius
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True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings.
- William Shakespeare
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Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
- Euripides
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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.
- Hafez
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Faith, hope, and charity-if we had more of the first two, we'd need less of the last.
- Anonymous
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In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
- O. Carl Simonton
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
- Gloria Steinem
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The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
- Orison Swett Marden
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The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
- Louis L'Amour
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous
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I always entertain great hopes.
- Robert Frost
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To hope is not to demand.
- Anonymous
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
- Jesse Jackson
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Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
- G. K. Chesterton
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The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
- Daniel Berrigan
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Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
- Martin Marty
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It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
- Nancy Thayer
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
- Jonathan Swift
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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
- Dorothea Brande
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
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We live on the leash of our senses.
- Diane Ackerman
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
- Stevie Wonder
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True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.
- Ross Parmenter
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
- Konrad Adenauer
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A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
- Anonymous
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
- Margaret Atwood
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You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.
- Sheila Ballantyne
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Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
- Solomon
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A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.
- Bob Kail
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
- Dorothea Brande
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
- Joyce Carol Oates
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
- Cynthia Ozick
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming. But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
- Adelaide Proctor
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Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to "image forth."
- Dane Rudhyar
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I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.
- Charleszetta Waddles
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To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
- Cicero
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
- Dante
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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
- George Eliot
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
- English proverb
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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on," and leads us thus to the grave.
- Mme. de Maintenon
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
- Alexander Pope
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Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
- Proverbs
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Who against hope believed in hope.
- Romans
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The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
- Walter Scott
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
- Thales
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Prisoners of hope.
- Bible
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
- Friedrich von Schiller
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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
- Cardinal de Retz
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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
- John Lyly
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There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
- Josh Billings
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There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
- Goethe
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
- Goethe
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If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.
- Tehyi Hsieh
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
- Irene Peter
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The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.
- Konrad Adenauer
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers
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A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.
- Anonymous
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
- Cicero
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all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
- e. e. cummings
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The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
- Sacha Guitry
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It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
- John Lyly
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And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
- Goethe
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
- Amelia Barr
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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
- Jane Fonda
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Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.
- Irene Peter
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My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
- Anna Sewell
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
- Russell W. Davenport
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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
- Dorothea Brande
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
- Elizabeth Goudge
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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
- Gene Brown
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after generation.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
- Baltasar Gracian
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Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
- Mary Kay Ash
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
- Anatole France
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An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.
- Henry S. Haskins
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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
- Mary Astor
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God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.
- Dr. J. A. Holmes
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To some people, the impossible is impossible.
- Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
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Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
- Sheila Ballantyne
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Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.
- Valery
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At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
- Cherie Carter-Scott
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
- Coco Chanel
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.
- Sonia Johnson
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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
- Baltasar Gracian
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
- Johann von Goethe
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
- Irene Peter
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
- Graham Greene
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Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher von Braun
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I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
- Lily Tomlin
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I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.
- Geraldine Page
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
- Yogi Berra
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I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.
- Sir Laurence Olivier
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What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
- Bobby Mercer
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We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.
- Betty Friedan
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People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
- John Lennon
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I don't know what humor is.
- Will Rogers
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
- Edward Gibbon
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When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.
- Anonymous
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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
- Fred Allen
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It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.
- John P. Loughrane
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I learn by going where I have to go.
- Theodore Roethke
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
- L. E. Landon
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One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
- Sophocles
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No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
- Rita Mae Brown
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
- Daniel Boorstin
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
- Susan Sontag
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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
- Freya Stark
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The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.
- John Holt
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Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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The work will teach you how to do it.
- Estonian proverb
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Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
- Louisa May Alcott
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
- Agnes de Mille
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
- Thornton Wilder
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.
- Cicero
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Ignorance never settles a question.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise.
- Thomas Gray
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
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I feel there are two people inside of me-me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
- Kim Basinger
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I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
- Tallulah Bankhead
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Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.
- Flannery O'Connor
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Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.
- Eva Peron
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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
- Mary Caroline Richards
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Instinct is untaught ability.
- Alexander Bain
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Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
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Trust your gut.
- Barbara Walters
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It is our business to go as we are impelled.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
- Dr. Alexis Carrel
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
- George Bernard Shaw
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.
- Holmes
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I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.
- Barbra Streisand
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
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Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
- William James
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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Instinct is the nose of the mind.
- Madame de Girardin
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
- Henry Miller
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
- Sigmund Freud
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.
- Carolyn Kenmore
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I feel there are two people inside me-me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
- Kim Basinger
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To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
- George E. Woodberry
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We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
- Shakti Gawain
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By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.
- Shakti Gawain
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The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive, inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.
- Herb Goldberg
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Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.
- Raquel Welch
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
- Rollo May
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
- Lydia M. Child
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Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.
- Stanley Kubrick
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Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew
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When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.
- Federico Fellini
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.
- Richard Iannelli
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I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
- Sydney Smith
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Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
- Henry Clay
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You cannot know what you cannot feel.
- Marya Mannes
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We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
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I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
- Ingmar Bergman
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Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
- John Sterling
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Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
- Emily Blackwell
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
- William James
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
- Jerome S. Bruner
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A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.
- Llewelyn Powers
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Calculation never made a hero.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
- James Ramsey Ullman
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All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
- Blaise Pascal
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Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
- Kahlil Gibran
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Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
- Aldous Huxley
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Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
- Lillian Hellman
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Systems die; instincts remain.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
- William James
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Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.
- Latin proverb
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
- Denis Diderot
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
- Don Marquis
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
- George Santayana
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
- Michael Burke
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.
- French proverb
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
- D. H. Lawrence
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- William Butler Yeats
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The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
- Henri Bergson
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Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.
- Michael Novak
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No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
- Vauvenargues
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Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
- Peter Cooper
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
- George Santayana
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I follow my heart, for I can trust it.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are no rules. Just follow your heart.
- Robin Williams
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
- Thomas Carlyle
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Great thoughts always come from the heart.
- Vauvenargues
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It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.
- Blaise Pascal
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The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
- Blaise Pascal
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
- Fulton Oursler
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Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
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When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
- Samuel Butler
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The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
- William James
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What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.
- Sir Arthur Eddington
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If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
- Cher
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Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
- Randolph Bourne
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
- Nadia Boulanger
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Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
- John Wesley
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The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.
- Oscar Wilde
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We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.
- Brenda Ueland
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Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
- Louis Pasteur
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You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
- Ingrid Bergman
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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- Anonymous
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
- Nikki Giovanni
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy, perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.
- Margaret A. Ribble
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Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.
- Robert Henri
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But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
- Vincent van Gogh
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Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
- Henry S. Haskins
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We shall keep our horizon perfectly, absolutely, crystallinely open, ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.
- John Mistletoe
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
- Mario Cuomo
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None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
- Luigi Pirandello
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I write out of instinct.
- Jerome Weidman
All men by nature desire to know.
- Aristotle
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I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
- Robert Benchley
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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
- Karl Popper
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Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
- Lord Chesterfield
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President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.
- Lt. Col. Oliver North
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Ten lands are sooner known than one man.
- Old saying
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The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.
- Samuel Butler
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There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.
- Mongkut, King of Siam
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
- Rex Stout
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There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
- Cyril Joad
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We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
- Rutherford D. Rogers
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
- William Blake
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
- Thomas Fuller
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
- Will Durant
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Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
- Albert Schweitzer
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A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
- Samuel Johnson
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Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.
- Arthur Hugh Clough
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If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
- Thomas Huxley
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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- Thomas Huxley
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The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.
- Alexander Pope
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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Robert Lynd
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I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
- Clarence Darrow
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
- Gloria Steinem
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We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
- Carolyn Wells
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The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.
- Martin H. Fisher
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All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
- William Hazlitt
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas Huxley
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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
- Will Rogers
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In all affairs, love, religion, politics or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell
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Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon
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Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
- Samuel Johnson
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To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
- Northrop Frye
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They know enough who know how to learn.
- Henry Adams
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Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.
- Anonymous
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I take all knowledge to be my province.
- Sir Francis Bacon
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
- Sir Francis Bacon
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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil ignorance.
- Diogenes
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He that increaseth knowledge increascth sorrow.
- Bible
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One cannot know everything.
- Horace
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson
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He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.
- Lao-Tsze
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It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble; it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.
- Negro Saying
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
- Proverbs
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Then I began to think, that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.
- Rabelais
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare
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And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
- William Shakespeare
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Know thyself.
- Socrates
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
- Cary Grant
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Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
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In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.
- Sir James Mathew
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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
- William Stafford
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It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
- Solon
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Jeremy Bentham
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Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- Francis Bacon
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That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.
- Lord Diplock
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The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
- Lord Darling
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Trudeau: Yes, well, there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me. . . ."
- Bible
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When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."
- Anonymous
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
- Douglas MacArthur
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Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
- Karl Llewellyn
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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
- Anonymous
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Show me the man and I'll show you the law.
- David Ferguson
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A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
- Barten Holyday
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No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
- Finley Peter Dunne
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
- Cicero
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The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.
- R. I. Fitzhenry
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost
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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
- Martial
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Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
- Ambrose Bierce
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In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
- F. Lee Bailey
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Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
- Edward Bond
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Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
- Montaigne
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The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every new time will give its law.
- Maxim Gorky
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Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
- Danish proverb
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
- Felix Frankfurter
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A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
- Samuel Butler
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A vague uneasiness; the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
- Ugo Betti
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
- Robert Frost
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Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
- Hermann Hesse
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Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.
- Legal maxim
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An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
- Laurence H. Tribe
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- H. L. Mencken
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
- Gertrude Stein
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The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
- Anonymous
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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
- Ulysses S. Grant
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Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
- Hart Pomerantz
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
- Felix Frankfurter
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
- W. S. Gilbert
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France
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In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
- Louis Nizer
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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.
- J. P. Morgan
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The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
- Roscoe Pound
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An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
- Finley Peter Dunne
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
- Wendell Phillips
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
- Charles Dickens
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The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
- Learned Hand
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Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
- Spanish proverb
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
- Laurence Ferlinghetti
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A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
- G. K. Chesterton
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After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
- Italian proverb
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All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber
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And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
- A. E. Housman
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I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
- Sam Levinson
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Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.
- Henry James
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Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
- A. E. Housman
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Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
- Bernie S. Siegel
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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
- Alexander Smith
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for.
- Earl Warren
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Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.
- Bible
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I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.
- F. McKinney Hubbard
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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
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If there is another world, he lives in bliss If there is none, he made the best of this.
- Robert Burns
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If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.
- Thomas Hardy
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If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
- Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
- Thomas Wolfe
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Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
- Anonymous
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
- Sir James M. Barrie
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
- Tennessee Williams
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Thomas Walker
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Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
- O. Henry
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
- Ogden Nash
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler
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Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
- Lewis Mumford
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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
- Frances Cornford
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
- Sebastien Chamfort
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Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
- Oliver Goldsmith
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Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.
- John Keats
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Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
- Aesop
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
- Thomas Robert Malthus
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Real life is to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
- Bertrand Russell
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Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
- Dan Chopin
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
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The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.
- Paul Tillich
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
- Charles Darwin
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
- John Morley
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled.
- Henry Adams
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The loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough, and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.
- A. E. Housman
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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
- Ernest Hemingway
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
- Alexander Pope
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
- Jacob Bronowski
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There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
- Robert Orpen
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This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
- Robert W. Service
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
- George Bernard Shaw
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We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.
- Thornton Wilder
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When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
- Jonathan Swift
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
- Joseph Joubert
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Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
- Robert Frost
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
- Virginia Woolf
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Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.
- Louis Ginsberg
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
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The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- T. S. Eliot
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
- Samuel Johnson
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, to wretches such as I.
- Robert Burns
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I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
- Aldous Huxley
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Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
- Thomas la Mance
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The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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People in the West are always getting ready to live.
- Chinese proverb
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You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
- Elia Kazan
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Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
- Josiah Royce
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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
- Henry Miller
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
- Samuel Johnson
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Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
- Sigmund Freud
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
- William Law
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
- William Butler Yeats
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You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
- Cardinal Newman
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Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
- Marcus Aurelius
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If you're on the merry-go-round, you have to go round.
- Kent Thompson
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
- George Orwell
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
- Thomas Merton
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
- Thomas Carlyle
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Albert Camus
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Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.
- Sharon Riis
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Such as we are made of, such we be.
- William Shakespeare
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
- Thomas Hardy
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Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
- Brooks Atkinson
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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
- T. S. Eliot
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
- Marcus Aurelius
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We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living.
- Voltaire
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
- Stephen Leacock
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There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
- Coco Chanel
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
- Adlai Stevenson
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
- Walter Scott
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell
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One man in his time plays many parts.
- William Shakespeare
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
- Goethe
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One returns to the place one came from.
- Jean de la Fontaine
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
- Lionel Trilling
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love - for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
- Max Ehrmann
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At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.
- Aldous Huxley
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
- Winston Churchill
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
- Oscar Wilde
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It is better to wear out than to rust out.
- George Whitefield
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My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
- Josh Billings
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
- Madame de Stael
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All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
- Kenneth Tynan
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The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
- Comtesse Diane
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Real life seems to have no plots.
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler
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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)
- Jules Laforgue
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Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
- Margaret Mitchell
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We're all in this together - by ourselves.
- Lily Tomlin
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Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savour you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want, more than all the world, your return.
- Mary Jean Irion
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A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
- John Keats
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Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
- Dennis Trudell
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It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- Oscar Wilde
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell
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We are most alive when we're in love.
- John Updike
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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that's Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it, Lily, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love�but to persist in love.
- Sue Monk Kidd
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Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
- Wayne W. Dyer
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Love is like pi�natural, irrational, and very important.
- Lisa Hoffman
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What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
- Pearl Bailey
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I love humanity but I hate people.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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To live is like to love�all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
- Samuel Butler
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Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
- Kahlil Gibran
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Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
- George Sand
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To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
- Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross
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Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
- Lily Tomlin
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The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
- Samuel Johnson
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
- Rupert Brooke
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
- Henry Miller
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.
- Marcel Proust
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What I cannot love, I overlook.
- Anais Nin
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself�to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
- Leo Buscaglia
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Erich Fromm
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We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
- Louisa May Alcott
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W. H. Auden
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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The essence of love is kindness.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
- Albert Schweitzer
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
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Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.
- Emily Dickinson
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
- Erich Fromm
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
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Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
- George Sand
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I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved�whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.
- Fred Rogers
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Where love is, no room is too small.
- Talmud
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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound.
- William Shakespeare
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Tom Bodett
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Thomas Mann
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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence.
- Carl Sandburg
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There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.
- Anonymous
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
- Cesare Pavese
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Love is letting go of fear.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
- Christopher Morley
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Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Jeanne Moreau
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And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
- L. Frank Baum
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Love's like the measles�all the worse when it comes late in life.
- Douglas Jerrold
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Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
- Vittorio Conte Alfieri
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Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
- Hans Christian Andersen
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Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.
- Anonymous
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Anonymous
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We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!
- Ausone de Chancel
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It matters not how long we live, but how.
- Francis Bailey
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
- Sir James Matthew Barrie
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It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.
- St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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Life is but a day at most.
- James Drummond Burns
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One life�a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all.
- George M. Cohan
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For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our whole life is like a play.
- Ben Jonson
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No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)
- Erasmus
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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A useless life is an early death.
- Goethe
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All that a man hath will he give for his life.
- Bible
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- La Bruyere
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Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
- James Joyce
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Christian life consists in faith and charity.
- Martin Luther
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Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life.
- Matthew
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My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends� It gives a lovely light.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits�and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?
- Omar Khayyam
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Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least, good friends, we know; So live and laugh, nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
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I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
- Seneca
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His saying was: live and let live.
- Friedrich von Schiller
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Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
- William Shakespeare
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May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The white flower of a blameless life.
- Tennyson
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Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.
- Eugene F. Ware
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Men know life too early, women know life too late.
- Oscar Wilde
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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
- Alexander Woollcott
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
- Lord Byron
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The walls are the publishers of the poor.
- Eduardo Galeano
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
- Kenneth Tynan
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Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond; and must be polished e'er he shines.
- John Dryden
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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.
- David Lodge
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Literature is my utopia.
- Helen Keller
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
- Cyril Connolly
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
- Joseph Roux
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Oh! Let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.
- Hilaire Belloc
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Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".
- Dudley Young
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The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.
- Silas W. Mitchell
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The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.
- Hilaire Belloc
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The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
- Muriel Rukeyser
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Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.
- Dr. Thomas Bowdler
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!
- Helen Terry
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When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
- Edouard Bourdet
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When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
- Walter Savage Landor
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The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.
- Frank O'Connor
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
- Stendhal
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
- Albert Camus
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
- Mark Twain
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.
- George Moore
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Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
- Anonymous
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
- Alexander Pope
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In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.
- Annie Dillard
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To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.
- Harold Nicolson
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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
- George Meredith
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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
- Randall Jarrell
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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
- Richard Hughes
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Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.
- W. Giese
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
- Thornton Wilder
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Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.
- Anton Chekhov
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One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.
- Anthony Powell
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
- Aldous Huxley
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The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
- Margaret Atwood
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
- Stephen Leacock
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
- John Arbuthnot
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
- Virginia Woolf
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In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
- Andre Maurois
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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
- Anonymous
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
- Dean William R. Inge
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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
- Hugh Blair
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Helen Keller
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
- Stephen Leacock
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The republic of letters.
- Mouere
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
- Oscar Wilde
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.
- Ordway Tead
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Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.
- Mason Cooley
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
- Robert Frost
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.
- Buckminster Fuller
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Speech is civilization itself.
- Thomas Mann
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
- Walter Bagehot
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.
- Rebecca West
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He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy, and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.
- James Morris
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He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
- Sydney Smith
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
- Bernard Berenson
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
- G. K. Chesterton
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Communication is and should be hell fire and sparks as well as sweetness and light.
- Aman Vivian Rakoff
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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
- Peter F. Drucker
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You never say a word of yourself, dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.
- Sydney Smith
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
- American Indian proverb
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People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
- Alice Duer Miller
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
- Agnes Repplier
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
- Seneca
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
- Samuel Johnson
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John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.
- Samuel Johnson
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She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Too much agreement kills a chat.
- Eldridge Cleaver
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You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.
- M. Dale Baughman
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
- Margaret Halsey
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While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.
- Walter Lippmann
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
- Karl Menninger
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A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable, they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to disperse it in noises upon the air.
- Cyril Connolly
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- William Hazlitt
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Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine.
- Louisa May Alcott
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Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
- Edward Gibbon
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
- William Hazlitt
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
- La Rochefoucauld
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The less men think; the more they talk.
- Charles Montesquieu
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
- Lucille Ball
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Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
- Winston Churchill
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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
- Mary Daly
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Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
- Winston Churchill
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A brave man is seldom unkind.
- Pretty-Shield, Crow medicine woman
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
- Winston Churchill
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Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
- Maya Angelou
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis
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Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce
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Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
- Rollo May
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Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
- John F. Kennedy
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Nothing but courage can guide life.
- Vauvenargues
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Wealth lost-something lost; Honor lost-much lost; Courage lost-all lost.
- Old German proverb
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully
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In politics, guts is all.
- Barbara Castle
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In difficult situations, when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are safest.
- Livy
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Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
- Baltasar Gracian
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That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
- Ruby Dee
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
- Herodotus
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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
- Homer
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In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
- Horace
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The brave venture anything.
- Anonymous
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It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.
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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again, and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Fortune helps the brave.
- Virgil
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
- Publilius Syrus
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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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God helps the brave.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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Fortune befriends the bold.
- John Dryden
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Ovid
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Fortune favors the audacious.
- Erasmus
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Audacity has made kings.
- Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion
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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
- Georges Jacques Danton
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With audacity one can undertake anything.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
- Preston Bradley
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
- Jean Anouilh
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Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.
- Thomas Fuller
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Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
- Mary W. Stewart
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
- Annie Besant
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Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them.
- Ben Ames Williams
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
- Confucius
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
- Anais Nin
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Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!
- Joseph Conrad
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If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and [if] there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
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He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
- Plutarch
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He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
- Thomas Fuller
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He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
- Thomas Fuller
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Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
- Henry Miller
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Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
- John Dewey
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The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
- Joseph Farrell
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I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
- William J. Lock
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No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties, and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them.
- William F. Halsey
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The best way out of a problem is through it.
- Anonymous
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
- M. Scott Peck
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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
- James A. Garfield
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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
- Stanislaus
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A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that.
- Joseph Rickaby
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
- Arthur Christopher Benson
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As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
- Julius Caesar
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
- Frederic Chopin
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Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.
- William L. Sullivan
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Fools, through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
- Horace
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
- James Thurber
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It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
- James A. Michener
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
- Katharine Hepburn
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
- Moliere
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Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
- Anonymous
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
- T. S. Eliot
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Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.
- Anonymous
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None are so blind as those who will not see.
- Anonymous
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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Soldiers, strike the foe in the face!
- Florus
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Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.
- John McGraw
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Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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Courage is a quietness, not martial music made Born of facing up to life, even when afraid.
- Emily Sargent Councilman
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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfield
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
- Marcus Aurelius
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
- Horace
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
- Aesop
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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No blame should attach to telling the truth.
- Anita Brookner
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
- Merry Browne
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
- Pearl S. Buck
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You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.
- Suzette Haden Elgin
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You're only as sick as your secrets.
- Anonymous
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You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
- Benjamin Lipson
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It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.
- Marion Woodman
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We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
- Anonymous
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere, and does not know where to go.
- Georges Gurdjieff
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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
- Ann Landers
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If the word frankly or sincerely is not uttered in the first ten minutes-or let us speak openly-then you are not in the presence of a genuine businessman, and he will certainly go bankrupt.
- Francoise Mallet-Joris
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann von Goethe
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If I ever said in grief or pride, I tired of honest things, I lied.
- Edna Saint Vincent Millay
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Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
- Anne Shannon Monroe
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- Saint Augustine
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Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
- Arthur Guiterman
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There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
- Ellis Peters
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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
- Angela Thirkell
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An excuse is a lie guarded.
- Jonathan Swift
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.
- Grace Aguilar
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
- Hannah Arendt
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There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
- Ti-Grace Atkinson
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The real gift of love is self disclosure.
- John Powell
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We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
- Thomas Bernhard
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
- Erma Bombeck
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
- Alex Karras
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I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
- Leon Blum
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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
- Pearl S. Buck
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
- John Lancaster Spalding
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It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
- James Harvey Robinson
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The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe; the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art.
- Joseph H. Odell
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I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
- Gloria Steinem
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Valour is nobleness of the mind.
- Anonymous
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Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrows, is good; that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
- Dorothy Thompson
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This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
- Victoria Lincoln
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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- Michel de Montaigne
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One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointment, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.
- Colonel John S. Roosman
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Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
- Julian Weber Gordon
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes.
- Rollo May
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Anonymous
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
- Plautus
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
- Barbara De Angelis
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This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
- Euripides
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Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
- Dr. Kurt Goldstein
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Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
- General William T. Sherman
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To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that.
- Teresa of Avila
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
- John Cage
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
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One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
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Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.
- Winifred Gordon
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We must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
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Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
- Ovid
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
- Honore de Balzac
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, on the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
- Maxwell Maltz
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Faint heart never won fair lady.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
- Joseph Conrad
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
- John Dryden
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Ovid
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The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The weapon of the brave is in his heart.
- Anonymous
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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.
- Therese of Lisieux
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
- General William Westmoreland
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A bold heart is half the battle.
- Anonymous
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
- Plautus
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A man of courage never wants weapons.
- Anonymous
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A brave arm makes a short sword long.
- Anonymous
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Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live.
- John F. Kennedy
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Where life is more terrible than death, it is the truest valor to dare to live.
- Sir Thomas Browne
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live.
- Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.
- Giacomo Leopardi
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
- General Douglas MacArthur
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
- Jean Anouilh
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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
- Robert Cody
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
- George Horace Lorimer
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
- Bernadette Devlin
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs.
- Euripides
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It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
- Owen D. Young
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Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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Have the courage of your desire.
- George R. Gissing
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To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.
- Confucius
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No great thing conies to any man unless he has courage.
- Cardinal James Gibbons
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Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
- German proverb
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Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak, until the finish line is crossed.
- Stuart Walker
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
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There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but... they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
- Cookie Lavagetto
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Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
- Henry David Thoreau
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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You will never do anything in this world without courage.
- James Lane Allen
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker
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Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
- Alonzo Newton Benn
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One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
- James A. Worsham
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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
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The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.
- Robert J. McCracken
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
- Jessamyn West
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Knowledge without courage is sterile.
- Baltasar Gracian
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To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
- Georgia O'Keefe
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
- Sir James M. Barrie
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It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
- Joanna Field
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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
- Jeremy Collier
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It is brave to be involved.
- Gwendolyn Brooks
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One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
- James A. Worsham
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When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
- B. C. Forbes
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent van Gogh
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Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.
- Thomas A. Edison
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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Horace
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
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The brave venture anything.
- Anonymous
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The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
- Charles M. Schwab
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.
- Ralph J. Bunche
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
- Alexander Smith
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Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.
- Vladimir Zworykin
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What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann von Goethe
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We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
- Richard L. Evans
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Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
- Viscount Cecil
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He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.
- Randolph Bourne
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
- Sir Walter Scott
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Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
- Margaret Truman
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Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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When you're my size in the pros, fear is a sign that you're not stupid.
- Jerry Levias
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Fate loves the fearless.
- James Russell Lowell
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There is no such thing as bravery, only degrees of fear.
- John Wainwright
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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
- Charles Kennedy
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Dorothy Bernard
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- General George S. Patton
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Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.
- Stuart Walker
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
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Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- David Ben-Gurion
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Plato
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Courage is the right disposition toward fear.
- Anonymous
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Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
- Arthur Koestler
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Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
- Euripides
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
- Cyril Connolly
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
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To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.
- Rollo May
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There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
- Roscoe Snowden
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There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
- William Barclay
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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
- Confucius
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Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.
- J. B. Gambrell
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is, perhaps, cowardice.
- Charles Lamb
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Men perish by the sword, cowards by disease.
- Phillippus
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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendered.
- John Donne
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If you knew how cowardly your enemy is, you would slap him.
- Edgar Watson Howe
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Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
- Edgar Watson Howe
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
- George Eliot
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The coward despairs.
- Euripides
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
- Ernest Hemingway
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The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.
- John G. Neihardt
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All men would be cowards if they durst.
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
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Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
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You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.
- Joe Torre
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To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.
- Anonymous
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Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
- Penelope Leach
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It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
- James A. Michener
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
- Katharine Hepburn
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Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become, the better your chances of achieving success.
- Lois Korey
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.
- Jane Wagner
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I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail.
- Rona Barrett
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Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
- Franklin P. Jones
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
- Sallust
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Necessity does the work of courage.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
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I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
- Audre Lorde
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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
- George Orwell
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Many become brave when brought to bag.
- Norwegian proverb
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Courage mounteth with occasion.
- William Shakespeare
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When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
- Jewish proverb
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Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
- A. G. Sertillanges
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Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
- Alice Walker
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Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Optimism is the foundation of courage.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
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I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.
- Ralph Connor
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At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
- Edwin H. Chapin
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We would be cowards, if we had courage enough.
- Thomas Fuller
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A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
- Thomas Fuller
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Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
- Diane De Pottiers
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Despair gives courage to a coward.
- Anonymous
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No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
- Henry S. Haskins
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I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
- Horace Smith
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How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.
- Jerome P. Fleishman
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
- Joseph Addison
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He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
- Vauvenargues
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Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle, it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
- Frances Rodman
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We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
- David Seabury
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
- G. K. Chesterton
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All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
- General George S. Patton
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Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
- Rollo May
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Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
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Courage is its own reward.
- Plautus
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
- Plato
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Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway
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Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
- Sir James M. Barrie
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Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.
- Eugene E. Brussell
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- G. K. Chesterton
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Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
- Cicero
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Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
- Nigel Dennis
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
- Francois de Fenelon
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
- Samuel Johnson
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Courage is the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
- Douglas Malloch
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
- Plautus
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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
- Charles Kennedy
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There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
- Helen Keller
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
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If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
- Carl Sandburg
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
- Jean Anouilh
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Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
- Pierre Corneille
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Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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Freedom is not for the timid.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
- Plautus
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In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
- Brenda Ueland
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But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
- William Shakespeare
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Courage is always the surest wisdom.
- Wilfred Grenfell
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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
- Ruth Gordon
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There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.
- Margaret Atwood
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On many of the great issues of our time, men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
- William Benton
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Catch courage.
- Carolyn Heilbrun
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If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
- John Foster Dulles
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
- Erica Jong
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Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
- Terence
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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
- H. G. Bohn
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
- Victor Hugo
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The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
- Anonymous
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Act, and God will act.
- Joan of Arc
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So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.
- Epictetus
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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
- Dorothea Brande
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What God expects us to attempt, He also enables us to achieve.
- Stephen Olford
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God gave burdens, also shoulders.
- Yiddish proverb
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With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides, He provides.
- Frank N. D. Buchman
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The Bible tells us that a sparrow does not fall without God's notice. I know he will help us meet our responsibilities through his guidance.
- Michael Cardone
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Leap, and the net will appear.
- Julie Cameron
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
- Queen Elizabeth I
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
- John Ruskin
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Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
- Natalie Clifford Barney
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
- Liz Carpenter
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Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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Everyone will be taxed according to his means.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
- Judith M. Knowlton
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The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
- Talmud
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Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.
- Edith Ronald Mirrielees
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What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
- Louise Nevelson
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All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.
- Elizabeth Goudge
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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
- George Orwell
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The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
- Muriel Rukeyser
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A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
- George. C. Scott
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What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
- William Faulkner
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If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.
- Sheila Ballantyne
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The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
- Huston Smith
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Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.
- Thomas J. Watson
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The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
- Margot Asquith
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We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- Thomas Merton
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases, she gives us greater courage.
- Johann von Goethe
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rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it.
- Marcelene Cox
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In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
- Heart Warrior Chosa
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
- William Hazlitt
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
- Wendell Philips
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
- W. H. Murray
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In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
- General George S. Patton
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
- Vittorio Conte Alfieri
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
- Cicero
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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
- Leigh Hunt
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Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
- Ovid
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Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
- Jean Paul Richter
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Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
- Suetonius
Call no man happy till he is dead.
- Aeschylus
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Though this may be play to you, Tis death to us.
- Aesop
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Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.
- Anonymous
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In the midst of life we are in death.
- Anonymous
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Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
- Anonymous
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
- Lord Byron
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Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
- Charles Frohman
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
- Thomas Hobbes
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.
- Walter Scott
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The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
- Anonymous
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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
- Marcus Manilius
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There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more.
- John L. McCreery
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Strange�is it not?�that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
- Omar Khayyam
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I am dying, Egypt, dying.
- William Shakespeare
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
- Anonymous
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I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.
- Alan Seecer
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Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
- Alexander Pope
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To die:�to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
- William Shakespeare
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Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
- William Shakespeare
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Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
- William Shakespeare
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First our pleasures die�and then Our hopes, and then our fears�and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust�and we die too.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
- Tennyson
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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
- Tennyson
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
- Walt Whitman
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For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
- Oscar Wilde
Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.
- Robert Grant
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Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.
- Burt Lawlor
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The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Viktor Frankl
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Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
- W. H. Auden
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You are the one who must choose your place.
- James Lane Allen
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Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
- Viktor Frankl
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Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
- Angela Barron McBride
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Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker
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Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
- Timothy Fuller
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
- B. C. Forbes
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
- Sir William Osier
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
- Jose Ortega
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Life is the sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler
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The difficulty of life is in the choice.
- George Moore
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
- George Eliot
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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Decisions determine destiny.
- Frederick Speakman
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Choices are the hinges of destiny.
- Edwin Markham
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Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you chose to be with, and the laws you choose to obey.
- Charles Millhuff
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
- Joan Baez
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
- Pat Riley
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Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
- Madame Dudevant
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No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
- Charles Horton Cooley
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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
- Gertrude Stein
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Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
- Dorothea Brande
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
- Thomas Merton
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Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
- Pythagoras
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
- Jane Austen
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In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
- General George S. Patton
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Once the "what" is decided, the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."
- Pearl S. Buck
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
- Blaise Pascal
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
- Arthur Christopher Benson
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Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.
- H.W Andrews
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
- George Eliot
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Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
- Christopher Morley
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
- Sigmund Freud
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozel
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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
- Anonymous
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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
- Henry Ford
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
- Karl Kraus
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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
- Mark Twain
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People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. ... The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.
- Pauline Rose Chance
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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small, as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
- Bill W.
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History is a stern judge.
- Svetlana Alliluyeva
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I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
- Margaret Culkin Banning
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You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?
- Margaret Culkin Banning
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The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
- Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
- Anne Bradstreet
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One faces the future with one's past.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
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You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
- George Eliot
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The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.
- Doug Rader
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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
- Anna Deavere Smith
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There is no data on the future.
- Laurel Cutler
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The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
- Lewis Mumford
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Time has told me less than I need to know.
- Gwen Harwood
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I learn by going where I have to go.
- Theodore Roethke
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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
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We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
- Vauvenargues
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Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
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A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
- Arthur Radford
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She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit, rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
- Anne Perry
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When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
- Edith Hamilton
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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
- Harry S. Truman
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
- Charlotte Bronte
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
- Marge Piercy
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In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.
- Roger M. Blough
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Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though surefooted, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
- Fanny Burney
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Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
- Sydney J. Harris
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
- Sophocles
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The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
- Samuel Butler
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Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.
- Bobby Bragan
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
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Reason, with most people, means their own opinions.
- William Hazlitt
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Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable, animal.
- Alexander Hamilton
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
- Horace Mann
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If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.
- Dr. Logain Clendening
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Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
- Lillian Hellman
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Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
- Henry Clay
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It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter
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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
- Peter Cooper
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It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.
- Marcel Proust
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A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.
- Herbert J. Steifel
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He who reflects too much will achieve little.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
- Publilius Syrus
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The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.
- Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Deliberation often loses a good chance.
- Latin proverb
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
- Anatole France
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When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
- William B. Given
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We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
- L'Estrange
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If you think too long, you think wrong.
- Jim Kaat
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You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.
- Bobby Mercer
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The soul of dispatch is decision.
- William Hazlitt
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The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.
- H. Van Anderson
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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
- Lee Iacocca
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Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
- Harry A. Hopf
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Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.
- Brendan Francis
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Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
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There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
- Lee Iacocca
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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
- William Feather
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
- Wendell Phillips
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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Horace
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If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
- Ben Nicholas
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Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
- Saul Bellow
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The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart
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Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
- Sir Richard Livingstone
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger
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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
- Kathleen Raine
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If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
- Kenneth Burke
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You cannot have your cake and eat it.
- Anonymous
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
- Anne Bronte
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You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
- Anonymous
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There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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A door must either be shut or open.
- Anonymous
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Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
- Tallulah Bankhead
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You cannot serve God and Mammon.
- Bible
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
- French proverb
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When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.
- W. J. Slim
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
- Benjamin Franklin
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton
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You cannot have it both ways.
- Anonymous
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Of two evils, choose the less.
- Anonymous
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Of two evils, choose the prettier.
- Carolyn Wells
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Where bad's the best, bad must be the choice.
- Anonymous
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Both choices are painful, but only one is therapeutic.
- Albert M. Wells
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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
- Vauvenargues
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
- William James
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A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.
- John Foster
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
- Bertrand Russell
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Not to decide is to decide.
- Harvey Cox
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Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
- Gordon Graham
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
- William James
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In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
- Ivan Bloch
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There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.
- Herbert B. Prochnow
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You can only predict things after they've happened.
- Eugene Ionesco
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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No one knows what he can to do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
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Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
- Lillian Hellman
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After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached, but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.
- Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher
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No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
- Sir Arthur Helps
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
- James Russell Lowell
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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Optimism is an intellectual choice.
- Diana Schneider
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.
- Francis Bacon
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.
- Norbert Weiner
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
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What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
- William Graham Sumner
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We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.
- Emperor Hirohito
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Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.
- Harry S. Truman
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
- Henry Kissinger
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The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
- Bruno Bettelheim
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He who has a choice has trouble.
- Dutch proverb
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
- George Eliot
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They never die, who have the future in them.
- Meridel Le Sueur
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
- George Bernard Shaw
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One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
- Alexander A. Bogomoletz
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
- Luigi Pirandello
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The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
- Sir Alexander Paterson
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.
- Leon Uris
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
- Patti Smith
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
- George Eliot
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One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown, And three with a new song's measure, Can trample an empire down.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
- Katherine Mansfield
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Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
- Catfish Hunter
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If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
- Carolyn Kenmore
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For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Accurate information is a key part of motivation.
- Mary Ann Allison
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Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
- Merlin Olsen
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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
- Alexis Delp
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I tried to treat them like me, and some of them weren't.
- Bill Russell
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Baruch Spinoza
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I believe in using words, not fists.
- Susan Sarandon
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
- Abraham Lincoln
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The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
- Kate Capshaw
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
- Elizabeth Bowen
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
- Elizabeth Inchbald
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All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."
- Ted Williams
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Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
- Tom O'Connor
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Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
- Vauvenargues
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Love teaches even asses to dance.
- French proverb
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There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.
- John M. Wilson
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When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.
- Josh Gibson
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Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
- Basil W. Maturin
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I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
- Martin Luther
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It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
- Christopher Fry
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
- Pat Riley
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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
- Robert H. Jackson
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
- Jane Smiley
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All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler
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Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
- Elizabeth Harrison
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Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
- William Allen White
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
- Barbara Walters
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The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
- Mary Kay Ash
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To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
- Jack Nicklaus
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I want to do it because I want to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
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Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.
- Sylvia Porter
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
- Plato
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Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
- Blaise Pascal
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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
- Donald Trump
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Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.
- Plato
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Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
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It is the spur of ignorance, the consciousness of not understanding, and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
- John Pierce
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different, and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
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Love teaches even asses to dance.
- French proverb
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Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
- Satchel Paige
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It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause.
- Fred Astaire
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My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.
- Noel Coward
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
- Joseph Conrad
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It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
- Ouida
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One starts an action simply because one must do something.
- T. S. Eliot
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
- Nick Seitz
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There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful, rich and famous, but if those are our goals, we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
- Phyllis Whitney
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I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
- Juvenal
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
- Plato
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.
- Virginia Wade
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- Oscar Wilde
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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
- Eric Hoffer
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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
- Saint Augustine
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We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
- Louis L'Amour
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I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.
- Carmen Basilio
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I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.
- Soichire Honda
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Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
- Harrison Ford
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A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
- Edgar Watson Howe
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Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.
- Bradford Merrill
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
- Mark Twain
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If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.
- Mary Kay Ash
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Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
- Lady Marguerite Blessington
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I praise loudly; I blame softly.
- Catherine II
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There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.
- Mary Kay Ash
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To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
- Gail Sheehy
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Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
- Helen Hunt Jackson
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Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.
- Mary Kay Ash
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There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
- Selma Lagerlof
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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
- Mary Kay Ash
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What you praise you increase.
- Catherine Ponder
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What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.
- Eleanor H. Porter
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.
- Mary Kay Ash
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We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
- Cicero
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.
- Ada Levenson
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When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
- Brenda Ueland
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
- Pearl S. Buck
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.
- Blaise Pascal
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The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
- John Ruskin
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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
- E. M. Cioran
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We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
- Walter Savage Landor
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
- Barbara De Angelis
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
- Marge Piercy
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The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
- Sondra Anice Barnes
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald
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You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
- Marilyn Home
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Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
- John F. Milburn
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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
- Caroline Schoeder
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There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
- Eric Hoffer
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You can't underestimate the power of fear.
- Patricia Nixon
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There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.
- John M. Wilson
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
- O. J. Simpson
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A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.
- Tom Landry
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Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
- Angela Merici
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
- Abigail Van Buren
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Because it's there.
- G. H. L. Mallory
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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
- Daniele Vare
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It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
- Margot Asquith
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
- Hannah Arendt
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When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet.
- Ukrainian proverb
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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
- Angela Merici
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle-class is its future.
- Ayn Rand
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People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.
- John H. Glenn
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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we've learnt something from yesterday.
- John Wayne
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Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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You can never plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke
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One must care about a world one will not see.
- Bertrand Russell
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If you can look into the seeds of time and say, which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me.
- William Shakespeare
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The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Charles F. Kettering
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
- Edward Young
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The future comes one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius
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What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw.
- Euripides
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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
- Abraham Lincoln
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We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
- John Buchan
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The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
- Harry Lauder
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
- Robertson Davies
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
- Proverbs
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Light tomorrow with today!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
- Dagobert Runes
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
- Swedish proverb
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The future is purchased by the present.
- Samuel Johnson
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Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
- Walter Lippman
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I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
- Arthur Wing Pinero
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
- Andre Gide
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
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It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
- Anya Seton
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Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.
- Jakob Burckhardt
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There is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future.
- Lorraine Hansbury
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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
- Isak Dinesen
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The future comes one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson
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There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
- Alec Waugh
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
- Horace
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There is no data on the future.
- Laurel Cutler
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
- Bernard de Fontenelle
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The future is hidden even from those who make it.
- Anatole France
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
- Helen Keller
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
- Christian Bovee
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There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.
- Mary Beckett
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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
- Ruth Benedict
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I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.
- Louis L'Amour
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After all, tomorrow is another day.
- Scarlett O'Hara
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Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.
- Louis L'Amour
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He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
- Beilby Porteous
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden
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It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
- E. H. Harriman
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If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.
- James Petersen
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He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
- Thomas Fuller
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
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The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
- Tennessee Williams
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To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
- Francesco Guicciardini
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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
- Brendan Francis
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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
- Lucan
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We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
- Thomas E. Dewey
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
- William Allen White
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Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
- Ruth Benedict
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Put aside the need to know some future design and simply leave your life open to what is needed of it by the Divine forces.
- Emmanuel
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See how time makes all grief decay.
- Adelaide Proctor
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
- George Macdonald
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Take therefore no thought of the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
- Bible
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
- Edward Young
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Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
- Jimmy Lyons
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis
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The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
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The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
- Arthur Wing Pinero
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The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
- Thornton Wilder
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The future is the shape of things to come.
- H. G. Wells
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The future is the past in preparation.
- Pierre Dae
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To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
- John Dewey
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The future is hope!
- John Fiske
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The future is a great land.
- Anonymous
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The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
- Donald G. Mitchell
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Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
- Marilyn French
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
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I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.
- Bette Davis
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He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
- G. K. Chesterton
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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When I look to the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes.
- Oprah Winfrey
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
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You cannot plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke
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It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
- George Macdonald
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Charles F. Kettering
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.
- Anonymous
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Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life-its wonderful surprises.
- Mario Thomas
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When I look at the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
- Lord Dunsany
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- Simone Weil
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
- Dan Quisenberry
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By-and-by never comes.
- Saint Augustine
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The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
- Gene Brown
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Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
- Robert Browning
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For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
- Louis L'Amour
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I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
- Louis L'Amour
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If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
- D. H. Lawrence
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You learn to build your roads on today, because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
- Veronica Shoffstal
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Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
- Gelsey Kirkland
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
- Benjamin Whichcote
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The English of the Bible has a pithiness and raciness, a homely tang, a terse sententiousness, an idiomatic flavour which comes home to men's business and bosoms ... a nobility of diction and ... a rhythmic quality . . . unrivaled in its beauty.
- John Livingston Lowes
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The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.
- Bible
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That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
- Mark Twain
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The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
- William Blake
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The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
- Bible
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I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
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I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
- Bible
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The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Bible
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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Oh my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
- Bible
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A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.
- Bible
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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.
- Bible
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Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.
- Bible
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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.
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His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.
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Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.
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Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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Watchman, what of the night?
- Bible
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Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
- Bible
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The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- Bible
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For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
- Bible
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Borne the burden and heat of the day.
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The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
- Bible
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Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God: where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
- Bible
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We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
- Bible
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I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
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They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Bible
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Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
- Bible
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Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman.
- Bible
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When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.
- Jesse Jackson
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Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
- Bible
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Unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
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He that is not with me is against me.
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Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- Bible
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For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
- Bible
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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
- Bible
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I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.
- Bible
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The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
- Northrop Frye
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple
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Luctor et Emergo - I struggle and I come through.
- Notre Dame College of Saskatchewan
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Nothing recedes like success.
- Walter Winchell
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Perseverance, n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.
- Pindar
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
- Nancy, Lady As tor
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
- Alexander Chase
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What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
- William McFee
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Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
- Walt Whitman
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Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
- Malay proverb
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Success is that old ABC- ability, breaks and courage.
- Charles Luckman
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How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
- Mickey Rooney
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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
- Artur Rubinstein
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High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
- Tennessee Williams
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
- Victor Hugo
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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
- Voltaire
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The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
- Don Marquis
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It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
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Survival is triumph enough.
- Harry Crews
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It takes time to be a success, but time is all it takes.
- Anonymous
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There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
- Bliss Carman
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Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.
- Phyllis McGinley
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
- Irving Berlin
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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
- Kenneth Boulding
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
- Alexander Pope
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Success is not so much what you are, but rather what you appear to be.
- Anonymous
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is - try to please everybody.
- Herbert Bayard Swope
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Success has made failures of many men.
- Cindy Adams
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A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach
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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
- Earl Nightingale
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
- Seneca
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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
- Bob Brown
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If people knew what they had to do to be successful, most people wouldn't.
- Lord Thomson of Fleet
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
- Oswald Spengler
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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
- Vesta M. Kelly
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Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.
- Damon Runyon
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley
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Find a need and fill it.
- Ruth Stafford Peale
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The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
- Donald Riggs
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The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.
- Sarah Knowles Bolton
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The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
- A. Jackson King
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Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
- George R. Kirkpatrick
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Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out.
- Anonymous
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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love. ... Give it the best there is in you.... Seize your opportunities. ... And be a member of the team.
- Benjamin F. Fairless
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Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.
- L. G. Elliott
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Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
- John Stevenson
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I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up."
- Tom T. Hall
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The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Success is that old ABC-Ability, Breaks and Courage.
- Charles Luckman
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
- Henry Ford
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To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
- Charles Baudouin
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is-try to please everybody.
- Herbert Bayard Swope
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
- Agnes Repplier
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A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.
- William M. Punshion
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
- Sir William Osier
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I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
- Harry S. Truman
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
- General Colin L. Powell
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.
- Tennessee Williams
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Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
- William Maxwell Aitken
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Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Find a need and fill it.
- Ruth Stafford Peale
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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
- Swami Sivananda
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Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
- William A. Ward
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
- Malcolm Forbes
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Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
- Helen Hayes
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Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford
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So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
- Catharine Marshall
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Remember, the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.
- Macrina Wiederkehr
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The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured.
- Paul C. Packe
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The ability to form friendships, to make people believe in you and trust you is one of the few absolutely fundamental qualities of success. Selling, buying, negotiating are so much smoother and easier when the parties enjoy each other's confidence. The young man who can make friends quickly will find that he will glide, instead of stumble, through life.
- John J. McGuirk
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Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.
- Susan RoAne
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Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.
- Susan RoAne
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No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.
- John Craig
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
- Ben Johnson
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
- Sir Archibald Mclndoe
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Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
- Ralph C. Smedley
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That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.
- Mary Field Belenky
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A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
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You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
- Jennifer Capriati
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
- Ingrid Bergman
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie
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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.
- L. M. Montgomery
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The world belongs to the energetic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.
- Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Since everything is in our heads, we better not lose them.
- Coco Chanel
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There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
- Bliss Carman
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
- B. C. Forbes
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
- Ilka Chase
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Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.
- Martina Navratilova
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If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
- David V. A. Ambrose
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Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.
- James Caan
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The real difference between men is energy.
- Thomas Fuller
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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
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To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.
- Thomas A. Buckner
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
- C. Malesherbez
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Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
- Thomas N. Carruther
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Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
- Charles Buxton
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We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!
- George Matthew Adams
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
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Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited, they make a success of their lives.
- Walter Chrysler
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- General Douglas MacArthur
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The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
- Edwin Way Teale
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Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
- Thomas Eakins
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To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
- Walter Pater
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Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
- Edward B. Butler
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
- Vauvenargues
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Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
- Charles Buxton
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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
- Sir Edward Appleton
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Do it big or stay in bed.
- Larry Kelly
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done.
- Arland Gilbert
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If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful.
- Donald M. Kendall
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
- Christian Bovee
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
- William Hazlitt
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If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.
- John B. Gough
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
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No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.
- Frank Curtis Williams
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No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.
- Edgar Watson Howe
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Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
- James A. Worsham
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- Albert Camus
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Our team was surprisingly consistent this year. We closed with a seven-seven record. We lost seven at home, and seven on the road.
- Steve Wheeler
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All pro athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity.
- Gordie Howe
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I want you all to line up in alphabetical order, according to your size.
- Casey Stengel
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Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
- Johnny Bench
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They X-rayed my head and found nothing.
- Dizzy Dean
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