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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Washington.
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
I am determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Washington, where an insignificant individual
may trespass on a nation's time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Washington is a city of
Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
There are a number of things wrong with Washington.
One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Since new developments are
the products of a creative mind,
we must therefore stimulate and encourage
that type of mind in every way possible.
- George Washington Carver
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Compassion blooms where there is no expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Where there's life, there's hope.
- Terence
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
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