Thing Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Thing Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

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

The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein

I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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