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Credible Quote of the Day

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

To be persuasive, we must be believable;
to be believable, we must be credible;
to be credible, we must be truthful.
- Edward R. Murrow

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Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy

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

Truthful words are not beautiful;
beautiful words are not truthful.
Good words are not persuasive;
persuasive words are not good.
- Lao Tzu

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

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

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

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

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