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In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Government Political

Contest Quotes and Sayings

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

You Quotes and Sayings

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain

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

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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

People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell

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

Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous

When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle

You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

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

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain

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

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain

Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

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

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

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

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

The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie