Keeping Quotes

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

Success, Together, Working

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

Government, Business, Help

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

Life, Faith, Yourself

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin

Art, Acting, Coughing

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friend, Everything, Master

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams

United, Shall, Arms

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt

Dreams, Time, Live

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, True, Relation

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Family, Good

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Sunshine, Friends, Leaving

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
Hillary Clinton

Jesus, Forgive, Said

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

Age, Politics, Political

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
Bob Dylan

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma Bombeck

Sun, Off, Ourselves

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent

War, Evil, America

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

Happiness, Person, Another

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

Another, Painting, Diary

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre

Freedom, Secret, Lies

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker

Change, Learning, Learn

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Pope John Paul II

Maturity, Matter, Personal

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion, Stuff, Quiet

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce

Jealous, Lost, Worth

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving

Nature, Good, Mind

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
Hillary Clinton

Peace, Between, Last

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen

Nature, Time, Everything

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Small, Seems

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes

Old, Makes, Getting

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King

Marriage, Nature, Fighting

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.
Stevie Nicks

Yourself, Girl, Sexy

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