We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Persistence
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words will never hurt me.
- schoolyard rhyme
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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