Afford Quotes

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

Related topics: Motivational Success

If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

A man is rich in proportion to
the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well.
They must have worked for it.
I only feel angry when I see waste.
When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
- Mother Teresa

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer

When we make college more affordable,
we make the American dream more achievable.
- William J. Clinton

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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