Temporary Quotes

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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell
Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again.… — John Wooden
At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and… — Subhas Chandra Bose
All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night. — Leon Brown
Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever. — Leon Brown
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike
Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that… — Dalai Lama
Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a… — Chuck Knox
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they… — Samuel Johnson
Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent… — Woodrow Wilson
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be… — Abraham Lincoln
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal. — Edgar Cayce
Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls. — George Harrison
No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out… — Paul Brunton
I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart,… — Josh Groban
It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity,… — Marlo Morgan
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the… — Michael Josephson
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal. — Robert Kiyosaki
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this… — Abraham Lincoln
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison

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