Optimist Quote

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my
sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean quotes

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“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can
start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson quotes

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“Smile when it hurts most.”
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“May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love
waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your
tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.”
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“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a
while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
Alex Tan quotes
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“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that
every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow
vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to
be.”
John Heywood quotes (English Playwright and Poet, 1497-1580)
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“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never
think a negative thought.”
Peace Pilgrim quotes (American Teacher and Spiritual leader and Peace
Prophet, 1908-1981)

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“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
AzSilver Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and
Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can
be done rather than saying it can't be done.”
Bo Bennett quotes
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“May the pain you have known and the conflict you have
experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new
situation with courage and optimism.”
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“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is
droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854 -1900)

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“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the
pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is
twice the size it needs to be”
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“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist
is one who hopes they are.”
Chauncey Depew quotes
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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it
to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward quotes
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“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push.
A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things
are tough.”
Richard M. DeVos quotes
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller quotes
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“Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a
pessimist who is always right”

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“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness”
Mark Twain quotes
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“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use
being anything else”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch
eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.”
Robert Brault quotes
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“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist
stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”
Kahlil Gibran quotes
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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much;
if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist
because of will”
Antonio Gramsci quotes
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“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Susan J. Bissonette quotes

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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my
ship.”
Louisa May Alcott quotes
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“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the
optimist has a better time on the trip.”
Daniel L. Reardon quotes

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“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
William James quotes
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“A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a
philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the
clouds at all--he's walking on them.”
Leonard L. Levinson quotes

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“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
Colleen Wilcox quotes

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“A pessimist is an optimist with experience”
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't
pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life
can restore your faith in yourself.”
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“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Oscar Wilde quotes
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“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise
person is colorblind.”
Albert Schweitzer quotes
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“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.”
Nicholas Murray Butler quotes

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“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.
If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity
of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde quotes
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“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your
house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is
inconvenience.”
Robert Fulghum quotes

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“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the
possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your
weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.”
Paul J. Meyer quotes

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optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
Author: Don Marquis
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful,
including what is ugly.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human
destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am
optimistic as to man.
Author: Albert Camus
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Author: William Faulkner
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Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro
football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that
I'm going to complete every pass.
Author: Ron Jaworski
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent
working.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
Kundera
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Author: Reginald B. Mansell
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... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of
reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw,
the seed of death.
Author: Anne Perry
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I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best
for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I
meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.
I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
Author: Alice Potter
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because,
whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he
himself appears convinced.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to
Cape Canaveral.
Author: Anonymous
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any
more games by being anything else.
Author: Earl Weaver
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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Author: Paul Fussell
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A
smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are
tough.
Author: Richard M DeVos
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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the
gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It
should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Author: Robert Collier
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Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright
side of things.
Author: Anonymous
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Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Author: Walter Winchell
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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be
postponed.
Author: Kin Hubbard
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Author: Charled A. Beard
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Author: James Branch Cabell
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Author: Don Marquis
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Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-
brown glasses.
Author: Charles Eliot
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Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more
than a thousand pounds a year.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old
optimist.
Author: Mark Twain
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more
of it remains.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the
morning.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being
anything else.
Author: Winston Churchill
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think
a negative thought
~Peace Pilgrim
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.
~ Helen Keller
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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist
who is always right
~ Unknown
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a
philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the
clouds at all - he's walking on them.
~ Leonard Louis Levinson
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An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~ Susan J. Bissonette
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~The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present,
but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others
have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the
future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a
pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is
color-blind.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done
rather than saying it can't be done.
~ Bo Bennett
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness
~ Mark Twain
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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser
in case you thought optimism was dead.
~ Robert Brault
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at
the thorns, oblivious to the rose
~ Kahlil Gibran
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to
change; the realist adjusts the sails.
~ William Arthur Ward
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A
smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are
tough.
~ Richard M. DeVos
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being
anything else
~ Winston Churchill
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An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture,
whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is
one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something
else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights
prevail over the shadows.
~ Felix Adler
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I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he
starts.
~ Thomas A. Buckner
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
~ James Branch Caball
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects.
~ Norman Cousins
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
~ Havelock Ellis
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant-the digitalis of failure.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the
optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder
tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
~ Karl A. Menninger

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Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if
they're right.
~ James Reston
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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and
good people will be drawn to you.
~ Mary Lou Retton
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It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
~ Lucimar Santos De Lima
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An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.
~ Unknown
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Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
~ Mark Twain
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly
being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
~ George F. Will
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A
pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~ Bill Vaughan
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The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees
danger in every opportunity.
~ Winston Churchill
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May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced
give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation
with courage and optimism.
~ Unknown
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. "
~ Winston Churchill
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The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish
enough to believe the best is yet to come.
~ Peter Ustinov

Ability Quote

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )

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“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
Harry F. Banks quotes

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“We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt”


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“A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.”
Donald Kircher quotes

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“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
Rosalynn Carter quotes

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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz quotes (American Football coach, 1937-1980)

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“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )
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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin quotes (French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1848-1903)

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“The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal”


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“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”
Anthony Robbins quotes (American advisor to leaders)

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor
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Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach
1917-, American Basketball Coach
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
Arthur James Balfour
1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Agatha Christie
1891-1976, British Mystery Writer
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''
Oswald Chambers
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author
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Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

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“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

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“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”

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“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux quotes (French Historian, Novelist and Statesman, 1901-1976)

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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
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“The difference between one man and another is not mere ability - it is energy”
Thomas Arnold quotes

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“If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage”
Ashleigh Brilliant quotes (English Author and Cartoonist, b.1933)
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“Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.”
Charles Luckman quotes (US architect and industrialist 1910-1999)

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“The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
American Hockey Player
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce
American soldier
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman

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“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. quotes
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“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
George Allen quotes (American football Coach. Noted for his hard-driving work ethic. 1922-1990)

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“The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”
Alexander Haig quotes (American General, b.1924)
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“Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.”
Nitin Nohria quotes

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“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
Philemon Corrie Ten Boom quotes (Dutch Evangelist , 1892-1983)

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“The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.”
Jack Brymer quotes

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“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)

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“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Laurence J. Peter
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The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Earl Pitts
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
John G. Pollard
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
John Ruskin

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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce”
Virginia Gildersleeve quotes
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“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
Charles M. Schulz quotes (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

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“Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture”
John Abbott quotes

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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

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“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
Rene Descartes quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)

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“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.”
Charles M. Schwab quotes (American industrialist 1862-1939)

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“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
John Wooden quotes (American , b.1910)

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“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room”
Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

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“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
John Wooden quotes (American , b.1910)

Husband Quote

“There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.”
Hoosier Farmer quotes

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“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )

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“The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“When a husband brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.”
Molly McGee quotes

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“When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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“All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.”
Franklin P. Jones quotes (American Businessman, 1887-1929)

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“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
Martin Luther quotes (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)

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“My husband said it was him or the cat... I miss him sometimes.”

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“'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
Ogden Nash
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A woman who knows how to compose a soup or a salad that is perfectly harmonious in flavour ought to be clever at mixing together the sweet and harsh elements of a man's character, and she will understand how to charm and keep forever her husband's heart and soul.
Berjane

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck
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He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.
Katherine Dunham
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin McLane Spock

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I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
Julie Benz

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If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.
Richard Bach

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Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
-- Hoosier Farmer
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

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My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it.
Dottie Archibald

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My husband says I feed him like he's a god: every meal is a burnt offering.
Rhonda Hansome

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No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
Elsa Einstein

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People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck
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Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa

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That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.
George Eliot

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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone De Beauvoir

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What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him.
Alan Beck

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic.”
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“The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)

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“When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.”
Hitopadesa quotes

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“One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

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“When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.”

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“I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.”
Marie Corelli quotes

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“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
Agatha Christie quotes (English Detective, Novelist and Playwright, 1890-1976)

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“A good wife makes a good husband”

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“Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.”
Angelina Jolie quotes (American Actress, b.1975)

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
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Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
Virgil
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Pure love produces pure nonsense.
Jonathan Klinger
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
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When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
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Love is first friendship and then commitment.
Jacques Pierre Ribault
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You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Julie de Lespinasse
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction
Antoine de Saint-

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“If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.”
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)

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“Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.”
Marquis De Sade quotes (French nobleman and Novelist whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term sadism. 1740-1814)

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“A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it”
H. H. Munro quotes (Burman born English Novelist and short-story Writer (under pseudonym Saki), 1870-1916)

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“At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world”
Elbert Hubbard quotes (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)

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“Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.”
W. C. Fields quotes (American Comic and Actor, 1880-1946)

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“Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.”
Rita Rudner quotes (American Writer and Comedian, b.1955 Miami, Florida, USA)

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“A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes (English Romantic Poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. 1792-1822)

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“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”
Simone de Beauvoir quotes (French Writer and feminist, 1908-1986)

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“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)
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“My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.”
Rita Rudner quotes (American Writer and Comedian, b.1955 Miami, Florida, USA)

Wives Quote

“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)

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“I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.”
Rodney Dangerfield quotes (American Comedian, 1921-2004)

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“A good wife makes a good husband”

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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
Harold Macmillan quotes (British politician, 1894-1986)

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“All married women are not wives”
Japanese Proverb quotes

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“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”
Thomas Fuller quotes (British Clergyman and Writer, one of the most prolific authors of the 17th century. 1608-1661)

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“There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes (Russian moral Thinker, Novelist and Philosopher, notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics. 1828-1910)

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“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
Thomas Fuller quotes (British Clergyman and Writer, one of the most prolific authors of the 17th century. 1608-1661)

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“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first”
Billy Sunday quotes (American Evangelist, 1862-1935)

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“It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.”
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
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"Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!" "And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"
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A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say "Wit, whither, wilt?"
Winnifred C. Jardine
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“All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little”
Oliver Goldsmith quotes (Irish born British Essayist, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1730-1774)
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“An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.”
Ogden Nash quotes (American Writer of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse. 1902-1971)

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"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell”
Douglas Jerrold quotes (English Humorist, Playwright and Journalist, 1803-1857)

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“This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
Sacha Guitry quotes (French Actor and Playwright, 1885-1957)

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“Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes”
Thomas Dewar quotes

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“My wife's in judge of me, Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be, I ain't been home since Friday night, And now my wife Is comin' after me”
John Entwistle quotes

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“A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.”
Jacob Epstein quotes

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“Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology”
Muriel Spark quotes

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“We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily body’s needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.”
heloise1 Demosthenes quotes (Considered to be the greatest orator of ancient Greece 384-322)

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She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.
William Harrison Ainsworth

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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

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Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.
William Barnes
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And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush to show I've little further now to go.
William Barnes
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My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met! And has that thought been shared by thee? Ah, no! that smiling cheek Proves more unchanging love for me Than labor'd words could speak.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.
George W. Bethune
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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Bible

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So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well.
Robert Williams Buchanan

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In thy face have I seen the eternal.
Baron Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen

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Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
Robert Burns
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
William Congreve
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What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine?
William Cowper
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The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
George Crabbe
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Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.
George Crabbe
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In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife.
Charles Dibdin
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It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens
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You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms, With all the tenderness of wifely love.
John Dryden
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Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
Benjamin Franklin
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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller
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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
Kirk Douglas
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip Edinburgh
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke
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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho Marx
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She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.
Bill Cosby
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A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
Proverb
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria

Choice Quote

Denis Waitley
There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them.
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Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety
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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
Shaquille ONeal quotes
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“There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only
reward is that it's easy.”

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“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.”
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“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling quotes (English Writer, author of Harry Potter, b. b.1965)

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“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.”
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“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
Robert Fritz quotes
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“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
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“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels”
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“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what
leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483
B.C.)
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“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist,
551-479 BC)

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“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
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“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 quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.”
Alexander Solzenitsyn quotes
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“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 quotes (American United Nations Diplomat, Humanitarian and First
Lady (1933-45), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president. 1884-1962)

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“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or
evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which
he wants to be.”
Ayn Rand quotes (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)
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“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,
that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903- 1977)

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“Life is a sum of all your choices.”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for
Literature, 1913-1960)

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“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 quotes (Ghanaian diplomat, seventh secretary-general of the United Nations, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.)
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“Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.”
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)
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“Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will
forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a
difference, if you choose to do so.”
J. Michael Straczynski quotes (American Producer and director for the television
industry, b.1954)

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“Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of
the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise”
Stephen R. Covey quotes

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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will
and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to
choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering
them for the rest of our lives.”
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)

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“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.”
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“We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.”
Thomas Merton quotes (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in
Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)

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“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a
choice. To be or not to be.”
pjc1190 Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and
Novelist. b.1961)

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“It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.”
Michellee Jean Nidetch quotes

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“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness
to choose life.”
Leo F. Buscaglia quotes (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love,
1924-1998)
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“Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.”
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“We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.”
Gary Collins quotes
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“I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.”
Marlo Thomas quotes (American Actress, b.1937)
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“I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra quotes (Spanish writer, author of the masterwork 'El
quijote', 1547-1616)
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“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn
them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull',
b.1936)

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“Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took
the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

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“Don't you ever wonder maybe if you took a left turn instead of a right you
could be someone different?”
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“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the
choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes (American United Nations Diplomat, Humanitarian and First
Lady (1933-45), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president. 1884-1962)
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“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will
best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its
environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they
holding you back?”
W. Clement Stone quotes (American best selling Author and Founder of Combined
Insurance Co (now a part of Aon Corp.), 1902-2002)
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and
Poet. 1883-1931)

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“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain
of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
kburie Jim Rohn quotes (American Speaker and Author. He is famous for motivational
audio programs for Business and Life. )

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John Wayne: Quotes about Choice
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned
something from yesterday.
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Kahlil Gibran: Quotes about Choice
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Frank Swinnerton: Quotes about Choice
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the
most superior being of our acquaintance.
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Leo Buscaglia: Quotes about Choice
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to
choose life.
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Edgar A. Guest: Quotes about Choice
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are
the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind.
Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you
are.

Music Quote

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller

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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~Leopold Stokowski
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~Berthold Auerbach

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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
~Thomas Carlyle

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
~Mencius

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Without music life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~Gustav Mahler

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Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
~Michael Torke

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And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

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He who sings scares away his woes.
~Cervantes

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

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Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
~Benjamin Disraeli

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Music is what feelings sound like.
~Author Unknown
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There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron

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Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
~Henri Rabaud

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Music is the poetry of the air.
~Richter

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If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Sydney Smith

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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
~William P. Merrill
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If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
~Doménico Cieri Estrada
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Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~Ludwig van Beethoven
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I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
~H.A. Overstreet
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My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
~Edward Elgar

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Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
~Charlie Parker

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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
~William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
~Henry Ward Beecher
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Play the music, not the instrument.
~Author Unknown
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
~Robert Fripp
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[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
~John Chesson
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Music's the medicine of the mind.
~John A. Logan

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You are the music while the music lasts.
~T.S. Eliot

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Music is the universal language of mankind.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~Ezra Pound

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He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.
~Robert Browning
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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
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The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.
~Oliver Herford
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What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.
~Meyer Davis, about his orchestra
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~Victor Hugo

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...where music dwells
Lingering - and wandering on as loth to die...
~William Wordsworth, "Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge"
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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
~Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Music is an outburst of the soul.
~Frederick Delius
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
~Oscar Wilde

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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
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Music is what life sounds like.
~Eric Olson
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If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. ~John Cage
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Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
~Arnold Bennett

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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
~Robert G. Ingersoll

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Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
~Alphonse de Lamartine
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
~William Cowper
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When words leave off, music begins.
~Heinrich Heine

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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
~Leo Tolstoy

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There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.
~Robert Browning
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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
~Aaron Copland

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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
~John Dryden

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The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
~Leonard Bernstein
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Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory -
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
~Benny Green

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
~Artur Schnabel
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The pause is as important as the note. ~Truman Fisher

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The city is built
To music, therefore never built at all,
And therefore built forever.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
~Lawrence Duncan

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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
~Confucius
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Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country.
~Edmund G. Brown
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Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art.
~Joseph Addison
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My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.
~Liberace
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
~Ronald Reagan
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The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker
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Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
~Leigh Hunt

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
~Harlan Howard
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An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.
~Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
~Charles Ives

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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

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Music is love in search of a word.
~Sidney Lanier

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It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
~Victor de LaPrade

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
~Jean Paul Richter

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Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
~William Green
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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
~Simon Rattle
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Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
~Helmut Walcha

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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. ~Lily Tomlin

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The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
~S.A. Sachs

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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.
Louis Armstrong

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Richard Wagner
I write music with an exclamation point!
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Friedrich Nietzsche
In music the passions enjoy themselves
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Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels
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William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love; play on.
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Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Henry Giles
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
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William Congreve
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
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Thomas Carlyle
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Louis Armstrong
What we play is life.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"

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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ~Robert Benchley
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No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ~W.H. Auden, Time, 29 December 1961
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You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Laurie Anderson