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Let these quotes by Samuel Smiles help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
Related topics: Motivational
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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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
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
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
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 only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never give up.
- Anonymous
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 bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
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
Never quit.
- 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
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
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 walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
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
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
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
A state of expectancy is a great asset;
a state of uncertainty -
one moment thinking "perhaps"
and the next moment thinking "I don't know" -
will never get desired results.
- Ernest Holmes
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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)
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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)
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