Never tell people how to do things.
by George S. Patton

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

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Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton

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

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

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

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

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

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

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

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

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

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

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

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

Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Never give up.
- Anonymous

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

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

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

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

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

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

The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Better late than never.
- Proverb

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

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

Never quit.
- Anonymous

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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

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