Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Henry David Thoreau A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Charles Dickens A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • James Allen A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Charles Darwin A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Sigmund Freud A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Richard Nixon A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Lucius Accius A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
    Lucius Accius
    Roman tragic poet and literary (170 - 86)
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  • William Booth A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Bill Gothard A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • John Stuart Mill A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Cam Newton A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Hubert Humphrey A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Robert Byrne A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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