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May you find great value in these Earnest quotes and sayings.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The Buddha
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Humility must always be the portion of any man
who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers
and the sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe
for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel.
Along with all men of good will,
I salute the young state and wish it well.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
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
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
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
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
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