Permit Quotes

• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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• God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

  Peter Marshall

  Encouragement, Religious, Blessed

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• Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Desire, Increase

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• Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

  Mark Twain

  Pirate, Sailing, Good God

  Mark Twain (1875). “Old Times on the Mississippi”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Pain, Hate

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• Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

  John Wooden

  Effort, Fear Of Failure

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• We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

  Brigham Young

  Motivational, Family, Success

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• Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Beach, Ocean, Vacation

  "The Beach Book". Book by Gloria Steinem, 1963.

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• Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  Edward Bernays

  Giving, Looks, Moments

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• The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, Doe

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• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Positive, Congratulations

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Inspirational, Fear, Men

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• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

  Francis of Assisi

  Begging You, Order, Names

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• Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, First Impression

  "Ivanov". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  Oliver Tambo

  Country, May, Economic

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• We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, History, World History

  Speech to the Forth Worth Chamber of Commerce, delivered 22 November 1963

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• While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Eye

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• Science does not permit exceptions.

  Claude Bernard

  Doe, Exception

  1855^6 Lessons of Experimental Pathology.

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• Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".

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• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  Gary Cooper

  Funny, Girl, Horse

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• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sublime, Treasure, Poverty

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• One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  John Fowles

  Love, Time, Couple

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Imagination, Obstacles, Power Of Positive Thinking

  Norman Vincent Peale (2012). “The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People”, p.13, Random House

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• Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

  Og Mandino

  Children, Flower, Pieces

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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• Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Children, Hate

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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