Live By Quotes - Page 38

• When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

  Michael Ende

  Lying, Deceit, Manipulation

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Chocolate, Slim

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• Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Change, Humble

  "Unexpected Intimacy: Everyday Connections that Nourish the Soul". Book by Cindy Gabriel, p. 117, 2008.

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• Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

  Grandma Moses

  Life, Positive, Work

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

  James M. Barrie

  Revenge, Opponents, Conflict

  Rectorial Address at St Andrew's, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922

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• On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

  William Bartram

  Inspirational, Thank You, Gratitude

  William Bartram (1955). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Ignorance, Fighting, Men

  'Four Essays on Liberty' (1969) 'Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century'

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• Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Science, Thinking

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Witty, Happy Mothers Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Passion, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.264

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• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  Barbara Bush

  Success, Congratulations, Teaching

  "Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired" by Lauren DeBellis Appell, www.foxnews.com.

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• And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

  Donald Cargill

  Inspirational, Eye, Glorious

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• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Separate Reality”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

  Norman Douglas

  Mean, Thinking, Keeping Promises

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• Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

  Arthur Golden

  Girl, Stupid, Silly

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• To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

  William James

  Life, Change, Philosophical

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• I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

  Jewel

  Integrity, People, Brave

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• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Baptist Teacher for Sunday-school Workers : Vol. 36", (p. 483), August 1905.

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• I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

  Carole Lombard

  Jobs, Men, Red Lipstick

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• Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Uplifting, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Freedom, Women

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• Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Fear, Warrior, Artist

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.14, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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