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Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Related topics: Wisdom Cynical
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Your worst days are never so bad
that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.
And your best days are never so good
that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Anonymous
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
You have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative
of the dignity of my high vocation,
and its many responsibilities.
Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way
to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
- Mother Teresa
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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