Adequate Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Better late than never.
- Proverb

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

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

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

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

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

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

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

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

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

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

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

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

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

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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