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May you find great value in these Exception quotes and sayings.
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
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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
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
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
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
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
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
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
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
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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 have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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
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 can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
I believe in equality for everyone,
except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill
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
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
Most of us seldom let the outrageous
part of ourselves out to play.
Notice that I didn't say "never," I said "seldom."
Halloween is one of those exceptions.
While there are certainly many "bah humbug" houses on our street,
more than half the houses wear an acknowledgement of Halloween -
and nothing about Halloween is NOT outrageous.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
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