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Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
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Quotations are dead unless a spur for inquiry.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations are slippery things, really.
A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -
always completely out of its original context -
and sometimes not an accurate representation
of the author's original words, let alone his intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
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