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It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
by Henry Ward Beecher

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night;
a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both,
more bewitching than either.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Not Quotes and Sayings

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

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

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung

Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

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

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie