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Welcome to these Pinches Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
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
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
Know that you can have whatever you want,
when you ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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