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Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

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No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series

 

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung

Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death

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

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein

Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau

When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell


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