Keeping Quotes
2075 Keeping quotes by 1572 unique authors
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Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the…
— Saint Basil
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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing…
— John Muir
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I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.
— Harold B. Lee
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Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.
— Charles M. Schwab
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no…
— Walt Disney
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I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we…
— Will Rogers
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Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.
— Kenneth Cole
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It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself…
— Walter Cronkite
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For…
— Epictetus
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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By…
— Annie Dillard
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It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind…
— Mooji
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Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in…
— Gary Ryan
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Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping…
— Gary Ryan
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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before…
— Jeff Goodell
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is…
— Alain Badiou
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The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the…
— Joseph Heller
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It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself,…
— Charles de Lint
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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of…
— George Bernard Shaw
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My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.
— Susan Crandall
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