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A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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.
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People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
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Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
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When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
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
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
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
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never give up.
- Anonymous
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
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
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
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
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
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
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