Prolonged Quotes

If the human race wishes to have a
prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity,
they have only got to behave in a
peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Winston Churchill

Related topics: Government Political Peace

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
- Jack London

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey

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

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

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

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

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

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

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

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

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up.
- Anonymous

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

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

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

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

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

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

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

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

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

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

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

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

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

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

A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

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

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

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