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It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
Some are reputed sick and some are not.
It often happens that the sicker man
is the nurse to the sounder.
- Henry David Thoreau
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency
the reputation which carried him into it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Positive thinking has acquired a bad reputation -
which I believe to be totally undeserved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
War will exist until that distant day
when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
The God of Children and Fools:
There once was a man way up high,
who sat on his chair in the sky.
he called down to fool us,
and said he would rule us,
until we woke up bye and bye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until
we have been stuck, incapacitated,
or blown off course for awhile.
- David Whyte
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I can never be what I ought to be
until you are what you ought to be.
This is the interrelated structure of reality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.
Freedom is like that. It's like air.
When you have it, you don't notice it.
- Boris Yeltsin
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is
an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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