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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy

Attitude, Forward, Gratitude

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

Rock, Stand, Style

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

Life, Men, Lose

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis Waitley

Life, Future, Become

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius

Time, Strong, Place

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Character, Human

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo

Against, Boat, Reaction

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf

Truth, Business, Fight

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
George W. Bush

Money, Government, Country

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot

Experience, Human, Philosophy

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis

History, Show, Nor

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison

Political, Wrong, Opinion

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Samuel Butler

Feeling, Country, Morality

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
Carre Otis

Life, Beautiful, Karma

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Julian Casablancas

Greed, Injustice, Inventor

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice Walker

History, Injustice, Level

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert

Mean, Everything, Country

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
Dean Koontz

Movies, Two, Said

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides

Virtue, Gold, Silver

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke

Cannot, Another, Greater

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Mason Cooley

State, Reputation, Behind

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Robert Hall

Fire, Water, Ask

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
Stanislav Grof

Hope, Crisis, Real

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

Long, Dead, Run

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Doug Coupland

History, Live, Understand

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
Lily Tomlin

Funny, Hard, Might

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
Michael J. Fox

Love, Learning, Today

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.
Paul Ryan

Age, Saying, Around

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.
Suze Orman

Respect, Here, Situation

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Benjamin F. Wade

Men, Power, Travel

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