Wise John Churton Collins Quotes

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

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

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

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold

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

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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 great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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