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May you find great value in these Adequate quotes and sayings.
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
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 interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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 let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- 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
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Better late than never.
- Proverb
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas 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
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
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
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
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
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
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
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
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
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