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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

End, Become, Matter

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Time, Judge, Children

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

Love, War, Hard

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Time, Failure, Again

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

Deep, Happen, Once

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, End, Thinking

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain

Friends, Young, Old

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans

Life, Everyone, Discourage

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Great, Single, Small

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin

After, Days, Fish

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill

War, Wars, Giants

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, War, Children

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer

Yourself, Soul, Rather

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau

Lost, Understand, Until

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde

Science, End, Romance

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

Work, Today, Children

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Started, Talking, Quit

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey

Spiritual, Deep, Feeling

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby

Else, Coffee, Everyone

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca

Life, Live, Once

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken

Black, Times, Normal

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

Humility, Wish, Plan

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau

Learning, Forget

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Time, Live, Understand

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill

Food, Care, Greatest

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