Making Quotes

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

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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

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

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

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

What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass

I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain

If your home is not a place where you can truly
kick-back and be yourself - both physically and emotionally -
consider making some changes in your way-of-life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy

I made no resolutions for the New Year.
The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning
and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
- Anais Nin

I love fools' experiments.
I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin

There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill

This is my ultimate fantasy:
watching QVC with a credit card
while making love and eating at the same time.
- Yasmine Bleeth

The basic thing nobody asks is
why do people take drugs of any sort?
Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?
I mean, is there something wrong with society
that's making us so pressurized,
that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
- John Lennon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

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

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

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

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

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

It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley

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

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

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

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

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

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

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

Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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