Rare Things Quotes

• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Letting Go, Kindness, Struggle

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.131, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Character is much easier kept than recovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Integrity, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

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• To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Great Friend, Great Idea, Oneself

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.

  Ken Watanabe

  Dream, Perfect, Vision

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

  Confucius

  Wise, Philosophical, Men

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• Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Giving, Gains

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• Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

  Jean Anouilh

  Beauty, God, Autumn

  "Becket". Play by Jean Anouilh, Act 1, 1959.

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• Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Memories, Anticipation

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1947). “The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology”

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• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Women, Eyebrows, Way

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• Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

  Deb Caletti

  Confused, Eye, Simple

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• To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, World, This World

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• It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

  Matthew Ashford

  Fun, Having Fun

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• Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

  Junot Diaz

  Confused, Being True, Ifs

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.321, Faber & Faber

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• One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.

  Betty Neels

  Fall, Different, Matter

  Betty Neels (2012). “At Odds with Love”, p.108, Harlequin

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• everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

  Olivia Robertson

  Humor, Fancy, Humour

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• If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Achievement, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.234, Xist Publishing

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• It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

  Debra Messing

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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• And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

  William Joyce

  Teacher, Lucky, Louisiana

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• It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles.

  Francois Rabelais

  Common, Trouble, Vulgar

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