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Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
Be an Original, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat, dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The search after the great men is the dream of youth,
and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will bankrupt ourselves in
the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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