Constant Quotes

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  The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

  Billy Graham

  Life, Faith, Forgiveness

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• Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Karma, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

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• Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, Intelligent, Inevitable

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• Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

  Harrison Ford

  Tunnels, Light, Rejection

  "Life lessons 9 successful people learned from failing" by Erica Murphy, www.businessinsider.com. July 20, 2015.

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• The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Events, Caprice, Flux

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

  George Crabbe

  Complaining, Gains, Farming

  'The Parish Register' (1807 pt. 1, l. 273

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• Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

  Propertius

  Faithful, Mistress, Bent

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• What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

  Simon Newcomb

  Teacher, School, Training

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

  Eric Sevareid

  Voice, Worry, Never Quit

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• Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

  Lucretius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

  Ann Coulter

  Proposal, Democrat, Policy

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• Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Clever, Lying, Rise To Power

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• Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

  Learned Hand

  Life, Answers, Action

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  Walter Pater

  Philosophy, Culture, Spirit

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, Process

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• Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

  Paul Lynde

  Topics, Comedy, Conversation

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• Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, People, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• The only constant in life is change

  Heraclitus

  Life Is

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• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Life, Choices

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• Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

  Denise McCluggage

  Change, Hanging On, Sin

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• Change is the only constant.

  Heraclitus

  Life, Change, Change For The Better

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• Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Giving

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• Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Anxiety

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