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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Despite.
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Our creator is the same and never changes
despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world.
Even if we gave Him no name at all,
He would still be there, within us,
waiting to give us good on this earth.
- George Washington Carver
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.
- Robert Todd Carroll
My ideas have undergone a process
of emergence by emergency.
When they are needed badly enough,
they are accepted.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes
in every waking moment of their lives
to remind them that the lie of their inferiority
is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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