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Tempered Quote of the Day

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

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sydney Harris

Related topics: Spiritual Life Human-Nature Psychology

Let the word go forth from this time and place,
to friend and foe alike,
that the torch has been passed
to a new generation of Americans -
born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
- John F. Kennedy

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

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

We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

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