Makes Quotes

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Thought Intention Happiness

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

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

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

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

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

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

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

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

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

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes

It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte

We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus

Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most important promises are
the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we makes to ourselves
are the things that assure us
we have the capacity
to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter

The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume

Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein

Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda

Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
- Lewis Carroll

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys
on a minor planet of a very average star.
But we can understand the Universe.
That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho

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