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May you find great value in these Sons quotes and sayings.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
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I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
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
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
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
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
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
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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
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
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
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
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Better late than never.
- Proverb
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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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