Best Invested Proverbs
291 Invested quotes by 258 unique authors
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Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived…
— Mark Victor Hansen
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For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw…
— Alice Munro
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Maybe you’ve invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But…
— Joel Osteen
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
— Pat Conroy
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For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed…
— James Branch Cabell
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
— Oscar Wilde
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They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.
— Lee Strobel
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I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys…
— John Green
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
— Alain de Botton
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The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we…
— Cheryl Strayed
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As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.…
— James A. Baldwin
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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
— Steven Pressfield
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It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is…
— Susane Colasanti
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God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.
— T.D. Jakes
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Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and…
— Rajneesh
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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth…
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
— P T Barnum
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Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But…
— Howard Schultz
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To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years,…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
— Chris Argyris
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...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul"…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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