Perished Quotes

If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus

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We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Government of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from this Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln

If the Great Way perishes, there will be morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise, great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another,
there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu

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

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

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

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

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

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

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