Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
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)
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Never give up.
- Anonymous
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
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
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
Never quit.
- Anonymous
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
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