Golden Quotes

• Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

  Henry Miller

  Gratitude, Time, Perspective

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Home, Age

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

  Roberta Flack

  Eye, Opportunity, Prize

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• You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.

  George Carlin

  Gun, Boys, Forever

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

  Rosa Parks

  Kindness, Want, Way

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• Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Fields, Breeze

  Jack Kerouac (2006). “Book of Sketches”, p.22, Penguin

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Confidence, Money

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• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

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• When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won't think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money. They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.

  Gracie Allen

  Thinking, Secret, Trying

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

  Jennifer Beals

  Compassion, Sake, Steps

  WCIU Interview, May 04, 2011.

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• The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Strong, Heart

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.120, tredition

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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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• Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Silence

  Bob Monkhouse (1991). “The complete speaker's handbook”

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• We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

  Joni Mitchell

  Peace, Hippie, Garden

  "Woodstock" (song) (1969)

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• Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

  Og Mandino

  Positive, Good Morning, Success

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• we're all golden sunflowers inside.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Happiness, Contentment, Sunflower

  Allen Ginsberg (2013). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.196, Penguin UK

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• No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Different, Matter

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• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Technology, Years

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• There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Yellow, Light

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, Silence, May

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspiring, Graduation, Opportunity

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• Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Leaving, Entering

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• You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

  Diana Ross

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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

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• Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Vices

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• Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul's roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Blessed, Roots

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 585), 1895.

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