Discussion Quotes

A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- 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

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

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

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

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

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never quit.
- Anonymous

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

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

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

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

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

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

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

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

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

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

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

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

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

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

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

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

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

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

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

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

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

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