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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational Success
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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