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Welcome to these Top Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge,
that has ever been gathered at the White House -
with the possible exception of
when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F. Kennedy
We must make it clear that a platform
of "I hate gay men and women'
is not a way to become president of the United States.
- Jimmy Carter
Well, when you come down to it,
I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I look forward to these confrontations with the press
to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things
that come to me as president.
- Jimmy Carter
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
I am not the Catholic candidate for President.
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President,
who happens also to be a Catholic.
- John F. Kennedy
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
Any man who wants to be president
is either an egomaniac or crazy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Campaign behavior for wives:
Always be on time.
Do as little talking as humanly possible.
Lean back in the parade car
so everybody can see the president.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University
and learned within 24 hours to be ready
to speak at the drop of a hat,
and I learned something more, the trustees were expected
to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
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
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
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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