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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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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
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
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
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never quit.
- Anonymous
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 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 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
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, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
I attain Inner Peace by Intending my future, and never Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
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
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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