Astonish Quotes

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill

Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao

It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

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

It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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