Easy Quotes

• All things are difficult before they are easy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 560, 1732.

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• It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Reading, Writing, Hard

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• It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

  Publilius Syrus

  Ears, Accusation, Wells

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• It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

  Toussaint Louverture

  Cutting, Tree, Liberty

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• Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Virtue, Form, Persecution

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• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Play, Feels, Singing The Blues

  "Crosstown Traffic". Book by Charles Shaar Murray, 1989.

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  Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  Aristotle

  Life, Success, Wisdom

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Motivational, Helping Others

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• The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Ideas, Life Is

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• Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

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• Nothing worth having comes easy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Difficult Times, Hard Work

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• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Blow, Rich Or Poor

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Pain, Divorce

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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  I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Teacher, Fun

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• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Goal, Innovation

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “A discourse on ancient and modern learning. The drummer; or, The haunted house. The Free-holder. Of Christian religion”, p.198

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• What if we just acted like everything was easy?

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Attitude, Everything Happens For A Reason, Life Is Hard

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Greed, Literature, Want

  Elbert Hubbard (1909). “The Doctors: A Satire in Four Seizures”

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• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

  Laozi

  Difficult And Easy, Effectiveness, Risk

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

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  Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Learning, Experience

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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