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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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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
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- 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
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
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
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- 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
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
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