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Lest Quote of the Day

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

Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop

Related topics: Wisdom

Control thy passions lest they take vengeance upon thee.
- Epictetus

Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster

On His Blindness:
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- John Milton (1608-1674)

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

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson

Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown

Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown

You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee

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

I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee

I Hope You Dance
- the Lee Ann Womack song

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless

Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Never give up.
- Anonymous

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

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

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

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