Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

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

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Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

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

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

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

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

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

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

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

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

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

Better late than never.
- Proverb

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

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

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

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

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

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