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Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
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Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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