Retain Quotes

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the… — Abraham Lincoln
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star… — E. M. Forster
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy. — Vernon Howard
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. — Charles Caleb Colton
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when… — Rajneesh
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those… — Silouan the Athonite
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. — Benny Hinn
We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess. — Unknown Author
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread. — Unknown Author
The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility… — John Frankenheimer
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with… — Erich Fromm
We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBMÂ® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge,… — Charles Koch
'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in… — Penelope Lively
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have… — Demosthenes
Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations;… — Malik ibn Anas
These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such… — John Yu

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