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Welcome to these Stick Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Related topics: Love Government Political
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words will never hurt me.
- schoolyard rhyme
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- 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
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
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