Contagious Quotes - Page 11

• Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Example, Doe

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• You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

  Curt Siodmak

  People, Superstitions

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sick, Together, Vices

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• Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

  Rick Hillier

  Powerful, Optimism, Leader

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• Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

  George D. Prentice

  Courage, Cowardice, Liable

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• There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

  Amit Ray

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

  James Madison

  Mind, Public Opinion, Different

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.510

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• Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Liberty, Emulation, Example

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• Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

  Catherine Doherty

  Faith, Shows

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Mary Achterhoff (1992). “Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections”, Servant Pubns

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• Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

  William James

  Character, Mean, Organization

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Laughter, People

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation with a smile instead of scowl, or by giving warm praise instead of icy indifference. By our being understanding instead of abrupt, others, in turn, may decide to hold on a little longer rather than to give way. Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Irritation, Giving

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• But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Children, People

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• Creative energy manifests in the 'aura' of the environment - the distinct atmosphere, quality and 'air of the place.' It has a contagious effect on people. When we walk into the environment, we know immediately whether or not the energy is present. Most of us need communities as sources of motivation and vitality; and in keeping with the basic movements of energy in nature, people charge one another in positive and negative ways.

  Shaun McNiff

  Motivation, Air, People

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