Never ascribe to malice that which is
by Napoleon

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

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

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

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 let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

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

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

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

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

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

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

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

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

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

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

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

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

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

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

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

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Better late than never.
- Proverb

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

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

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

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

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

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

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

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