Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 9541.

  • W. M. Thackeray Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Buddha Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the goo
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Lee Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
    Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Dhammapada Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Ban Ki-moon Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Buddha Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • E. Joseph Cossman Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
    E. Joseph Cossman
    American author
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Napoleon Hill Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill James Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Voltaire Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Susan Sarandon Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
    Susan Sarandon
    American actress and activist (1946 - )
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  • John Gay Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Napoleon Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Arthur Erickson Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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