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Quotes about Consistency and Friendship
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Related topics: Wisdom

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

 

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette

A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell

When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton

To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel

I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela

We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill

Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass

Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

From far beyond this life,
I hear the call.
From place beyond all place,
I feel the call.
From time before all time,
I know the call.
From one before all ones,
I am the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare

Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous

Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll

Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho

Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear

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

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill

Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck


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