Avoid Quotes

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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. — Denis Waitley
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid. — Bo Sanchez
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. — Mark Twain
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public… — Thomas Jefferson
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but… — Walter Savage Landor
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid… — Mikhail Bakunin
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… — Abraham Maslow
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. — M. Scott Peck
I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance,… — Colin Powell
If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices. — Mother Teresa
You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You… — Red Auerbach
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to… — Wilt Chamberlain
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. — Bill Cosby

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