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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Harry S. Truman.
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
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Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job:
it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
I feel no need for any other faith
than my faith in the kindness of human beings.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it
that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S. Buck
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
When life seems overwhelming, just step back for a day.
Consider what is most important.
Focus on the crucial issues in your life.
Just let the rest of your upsets go.
You can't fix the whole world, but you can still make a difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You CAN do what you are committed to do -
regardless of how difficult it seems.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- 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
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for
grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- Charles Darwin
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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