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Adequate Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Adequate Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

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Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

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

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

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 accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

Never quit.
- Anonymous

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

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

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give up.
- Anonymous

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

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