Saint Francis de Sales Quotes
Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

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Never Quotes

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

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

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

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

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

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

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

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

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

I attain Inner Peace by Intending my future, and never Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

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

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never quit.
- Anonymous

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Never give up.
- Anonymous

The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

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

That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach

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

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