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Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou 
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Never give up.
- Anonymous
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Never quit.
- Anonymous
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
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
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