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I make it a policy to try never to
by Margot Dalton

I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton

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What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot

You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie