Seldom Quotes
1113 quotes by 730 authors
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
— James Francis
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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself…
— Peter Russell
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Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep…
— Philip Gulley
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We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of…
— Sasha Cagen
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We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a…
— Sasha Cagen
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I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight…
— John Gierach
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Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.
— William Feather
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We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef…
— Dale Carnegie
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It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth…
— Samuel Johnson
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
— Lafcadio Hearn
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As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
— Clarence Day
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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
— Saul Williams
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A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
— John Foxe
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Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always…
— Ellen Glasgow
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Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at…
— Napoleon Hill
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One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Income seldom exceeds personal development.
— Jim Rohn
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