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12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time — Franklin P. Adams
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words,… — Marian Wright Edelman
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat;… — Og Mandino
A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized… — Napoleon Hill
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it… — C.S. Lewis
Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the… — Rabindranath Tagore
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words… — Victoria Alexander
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame… — Blaise Pascal
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. — Winston Churchill
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. — Mencius
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. — Audrey Hepburn
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments… — Philip Yancey
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with… — Alan Alda
When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am… — H. L. Mencken
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the… — Lewis Mumford
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn… — Morgan Freeman
What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words. — Walt Whitman
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it… — Susan Boyle
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle
She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose. — Dorothy Parker
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who… — Cesar Chavez
This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We… — Cesar Chavez

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