Venerable Quotes

Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau

Related topics: Wisdom

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

A fool is one who goes on trusting;
a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience.
You deceive him, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you.
Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn.
His trust is tremendous; his trust is
so pure that nobody can corrupt it.
Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense.
Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you.
Whatsoever experience comes to you,
let it happen, and then go on dropping it.
Go on cleaning your mind continuously;
go on dying to the past so you remain in the present here-now,
as if just born, just a babe.
- Osho

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

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

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

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

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

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

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

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

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

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

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

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

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

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

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

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

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

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Never quit.
- Anonymous

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

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

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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