Temporary Quotes - Page 3

• Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

  J. C. Ryle

  Trials, Conflict, Crosses

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

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• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Change, Teacher

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• Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Sad Love, Love Is, Literature History

  FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Dec 18, 2011

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

  William Arthur Ward

  Failure, Delay, Detours

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• ...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.' If you just can't make that work for you, refocus your attention...Turn your attention in a totally different direction for the time being. Replace the distressing thoughts with other ideas. Distract yourself.

  Price Pritchett

  Gratitude, Ideas, Style

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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mistake, Talking, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.363, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

  Bill Johnson

  Loss, Victory, Eternal

  Bill Johnson (2014). “Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth”, p.34, Chosen Books

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• Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

  George Harrison

  Stills, Ifs

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• The box is only temporary.

  Sylvia Plath

  Boxes

  Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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• Take solace, take comfort.
  Your problems, too, will go away one day. They're temporary.
  The only thing that is permanent in nature is in your heart.
  Recognize that and be fulfilled.
  Fulfill the possibility that was declared the day you were born,
  the moment you took your first breath.

  Prem Rawat

  Heart, One Day, Going Away

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• I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.

  Miuccia Prada

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

  Martin Luther

  Justice, Lasts, Ends

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Memories, Long, Mind

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• Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.

  Gautama Buddha

  Forever, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

  Christine Comaford-Lynch

  Fear, Ignorance, Philanthropy

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• One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.17, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

  Seth Godin

  Mistake, Sweat, Decision

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• Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it's not just because wealth might be lost; it's because wealth will always be lost. Either it leaves us while we live, or we leave it when we die. No exceptions....Realizing its value is temporary should radically affect our investment strategy.... According to Jesus, storing up earthly treasures isn't simply wrong. It's just plain stupid.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Stupid, Treasure

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• Most of my work is very temporary, very provisional. You can take it with you or you can leave it. Which is a tough sell for art. Because part of what art is supposed to do is make you immortal, either by making it or owning it.

  Jack Pierson

  Art, Tough, Immortal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

  Stacie Orrico

  Inspirational, Life, Song

  Song: More to Life, Album: Stacie Orrico

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