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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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If a man does his best, what else is there?
- 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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- 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
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
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
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
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 cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
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
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