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Astonished Quote of the Day

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

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

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Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill

The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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