There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
W. Clement Stone

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Robert H. Schuller

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest Hemingway

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
Jimi Hendrix

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim Rohn

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Deepak Chopra

I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato