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May you find great value in these Except quotes and sayings.
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
You have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
I believe in equality for everyone,
except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
I have no dress except the one I wear every day.
If you are going to be kind enough to give me one,
please let it be practical and dark
so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge,
that has ever been gathered at the White House -
with the possible exception of
when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F. Kennedy
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
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