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A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
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Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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
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
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
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
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
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
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