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Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Related topics: Positive Optimism
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,
and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to
propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Footprints in the sand...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Pay attention.
Don't let resentments or pessimism answer for you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
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
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
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
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
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
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
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
"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 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
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better late than never.
- Proverb
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
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a constant opponent,
and an overpowering adversary if attacked directly.
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life -
a parry here, a feint there - always engaged,
but never in the direct line of life's heaviest blows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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