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May you find great value in these Prevention quotes and sayings.
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Related topics: Wisdom
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
I predict future happiness for Americans
if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people
under the pretense of taking care of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
On His Blindness:
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
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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