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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Quotation.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations are dead unless a spur for inquiry.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
Quotations are slippery things, really.
A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -
always completely out of its original context -
and sometimes not an accurate representation
of the author's original words, let alone his intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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."
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- 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
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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