Quotes by Red Skelton

If by chance some day you're not feeling well
and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done
and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart,
then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton

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If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon

For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)

We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson

It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.
All is system and gradation.
Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West

As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen

The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The people are the foundation of the nation.
Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth:
the release of the strength of the common man.
- Jimmy Yen

Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa

I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz

To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous

We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

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 way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

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