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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
by Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Fear Courage
Quotes by Edmund Burke
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke 
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No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
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
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- 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
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
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
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
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
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
The secret to a joyful life is Simplicity -
saying NO to the latest this and the most glamorous that -
saying NO to chasing an overly-demanding career -
saying NO to the stressful demands upon your time and energy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
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
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
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