Valuable Quotes - Page 24

• The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

  Liam Payne

  Inspirational, Life, Experience

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• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true

  Ralph Marston

  Strong, Moving, Focus

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• Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

  Ginger Rogers

  Cheese, Assets, Whole

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

  John Steinbeck

  Freedom, Fighting, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

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• The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Aids, Palate

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• Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Age, World

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something. But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

  Dave Chappelle

  Suicide, Suicidal, Giving

  "Dave Chappelle Knows 'There's Not Too Many People That Don't Think I'm Crazy'" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 11, 2014.

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• Our family adopted Paulie from a shelter as an 8-week-old puppy. We've had him for 11 years, and I think it was valuable for the kids to learn to be responsible for a pet. It's a wonderful thing for families - the unconditional love you get from a pet is something you carry with you for the rest of your life.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Love You, Kids, Unconditional Love

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• Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.

  Willy Ley

  Space, Trying, Substance

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• He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Quality, Mutts

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.169, Univ of California Press

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• Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.

  Greg Plitt

  Bodybuilding, Mind, Muscles

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• To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Government, Nsa

  "• Edward Snowden Interview Transcript FULL TEXT: Read the Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM" by Gabriel Rodriguez, mic.com. June 10, 2013.

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• Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Enemy, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.274

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• The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Simple

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

  George Washington

  Integrity, Accomplishment, Gains

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.308

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• The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much), and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.

  Robert Townsend

  Class, Two, People

  "Up the Organization".

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• Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

  James D. Watson

  Religious, Technology, Cells

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• Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Reflection, Mind

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• One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Often Is, Mind

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• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Persistence, Men, Monkeys

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Character, Color

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• All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, People, Enforcement

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.14

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• In choosing an opening plan players think most of all of harmonious development for the pieces, but sometimes leave the development of the queen out of their considerations. Yet the Queen is the most valuable and important piece and the whole outcome can depend upon how successfully she plays her role.

  Alexander Kotov

  Queens, Player, Thinking

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• You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable

  Andrew McMahon

  Blessing, Past, Eight

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