Occasions Quotes

• All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, May, Lips

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strength, Strong, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Communication, Opportunity

  "Technical Support Essentials: Advice to Succeed in Technical Support". Book by Andrew Sanchez, p. 79, December 30, 2009.

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Time, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

  Brooke Westcott

  Inspirational, Leadership, Courage

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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Insanity

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Strange, Affair

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

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• A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Religious, Islamic

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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not

  Coco Chanel

  Two, Champagne Drinking, Drinking Champagne

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• We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Focus, Vision

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

  Charles Simmons

  Life, Time, Greatness

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.315

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• We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

  George Carlin

  Fashion, Needs, Shapes

  "Stand-up comic - Interview". The Progressive Vol. 65 Nbr., July 7, 2001.

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• I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Insane, Mental Health

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, p.118, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Order, Demand, Littles

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• Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

  Oswald Mosley

  Jobs, Men, Mind

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.238, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• New occasions teach new duties.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Duty, Teach

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Art, Science

  Moses Maimonides, Hippocrates (1987). “Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates”

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• On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he was writing-after a pause came the reply, 'Perhaps seven.'

  Arthur Eddington

  Smart, Writing, Science

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• He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

  John Owen

  Encouragement, Sin, Neglect

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Parent, Generations

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Party

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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