Thing Quotes

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Courage, Done

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings

Love, Yourself, Earth

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe

Forget, Wish, Remembered

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Society, Live, Mean

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey

Integrity, Real, Knowing

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Charlie Chaplin

Used, Imagine, Saddest

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
Joel Osteen

Good, Remember, Somebody

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Destiny, Matter, Chance

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur

Dreams, Sleeping

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
Eminem

Love, Music, Best

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

Time, Try, Cannot

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia

Put, Difficult, Position

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
Michael Jordan

Greatest, Basketball, Perfect

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck

Life, Old, Tell

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
Eminem

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy

Bad, Saying, Find

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley

Trust, Best, Blessed

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius

Knowledge, Hold, Allow

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour

Anger, Him, Before

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old, Getting, Older

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran

Lust, House, Comfort

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon

Show, Gave, Answer

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs

Great, Different, Path

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn Monroe

Children, Else, Another

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Black, Whether, White

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama

Today, Smart, Short

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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings

Until, Stick, Stamp

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