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Cute Dogs Quotes

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cute dog quotes “I talk to him when I’m lonesome like; and I’m sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.” – W. Dayton Wedgefarth

“If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.” – Andy Rooney

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” – Samuel Butler

“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.” – Max Eastman

“If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.” – Will Rogers

“They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.” – Jerome K. Jerome

“The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.” – Steve Bluestone

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger Caras

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.” – Christopher Morley

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” – Robert Benchley

“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.” – Konrad Lorenz

“Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.” – Albert Payson Terhune

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.” – Milan Kundera

“I named my dog Stay so I can say, “Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay.” – Steven Wright

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” – Robert A. Heinlein

Famous Short Quotes

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“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” –Pablo Picasso

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. –W. Clement Stone

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. –Bill Cosby

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb

“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. –John Bowring

“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. – Eugene McCarthy

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot

Courage is a kind of salvation. –Plato

“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” – Russell Simmons

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

Thanksgiving Quotes

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The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell

So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin

Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope

thanksgiving quotesWhat we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, “No One Diets on Thanksgiving,” 26 November 1981

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart. ~J.A. Shedd

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck

Quotes on Humor

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“Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It’s the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one’s fellow human beings.” – Maya Angelou

“A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.” – Barbara Walters

“He who laughs, lasts.” – Mary Pettibone Poole

“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

“There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.” – Eva Hoffman

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” – Bill Cosby

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.” – Oscar Wilde

“When humor goes, there goes civilization.” – Erma Bombeck

“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” – Hugh Sidey

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” – Frank A. Clark

“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Funny Quotes“Comedy is acting out optimism.” – Robin Williams

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” – William Arthur Ward

“Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.” – Allen Klein

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.” – Mel Brooks

“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.” – Langston Hughes

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.” – Christopher Morley

“If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.” – Jennifer Jones

“Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.” – Victor Borge

“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.” – Leo Rosten

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” – Langston Hughes

“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.” – Eric Sevareid

“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.” – Jacob August Riis

Fear Quotes

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius

A chicken doesn’t stop scratching just because worms are scarce. ~ Grandma Axiom

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ~ James F. Bell

Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death. ~ Betty Bender

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation — it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. ~ Les Brown

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. ~ Jean Bryant

Fear QuotesWhen one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. ~ Buddha

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. ~ Dale Carnegie

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ~ Roger Craig

A fighter has to know fear. ~ Cus D’Amato

It all changed when I realized I’m not the only one on the planet who’s scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, “Are you scared, too?” “You bet your sweet life I am.” “Aha, so that’s the way it is for you, too.” We were all in the same boat. That’s probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, “Who else feels like this?” the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way. ~ Stan Dale

The first and great commandment is, “Don’t let them scare you.” ~ Elmer Davis

Fear is the biggest motivator. ~ Bill Dixon

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~ Donald Downes

My worst fear is that I’ll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

He without fear is king of the world. ~ E. E. Eddison

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

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. ~ Ed Foreman

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit. ~ Marvin Gaye

Wise Quotes about Love

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A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days. – Tim Allen

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. – Mother Teresa

Love is the history of a woman’s life; it is an episode in man’s. – Germaine De Stael

Love makes life so confusing but without love would you want to live? – Unknown

Romance is the icing, but love is the cake. – Unknown

Age does not protect you from love. But, love, to some extent, protects you from age – Jeanne Moreau

Love either finds equality or makes it. – John Dryden

Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. – Henry Ward Beecher

Art Quotes

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– “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

– “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

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

– “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

– “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner

– “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

– “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler

– “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch

– “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci

– “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita

– “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell

– “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann

– “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso

– “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse

– “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault

– “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

– “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

– “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

– “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

– “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand

– “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker

– “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde

– “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

– “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore

– “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide

– “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds

– “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker

Perseverance Quotes

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. ~Henry Ward Beecher

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker

He conquers who endures. ~Persius

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault

You can’t go through life quitting everything. If you’re going to achieve anything, you’ve got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters

I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. ~Erika Harris

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author Unknown

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown

Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying

I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~Charles F. Kettering

One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent – that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. ~William James

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~André A. Jackson

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis

Coffee Quotes

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Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. – Drew Sirtors

Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong. – Dutch Proverb

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. – Turkish Proverb

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. – Turkish Proverb

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. – Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. – Dutch Proverb

A morning without coffee is like sleep. – Anonymous

Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. – Voyager

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. – Flash Rosenberg

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee – Anonymous

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. – Anonymous

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. – Henry Ward Beecher

Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. – Alexander Pope

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. – Anonymous

Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. – Jessi Lane Adams

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. – Eddie Izzard

Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend. – Anonymous

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller

I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy. – Anonymous

I like my coffee strong and my women weak. – Alexander Pappas

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. – Alphonse Allais

Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister. – Bob Irwin

Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack. – Herman Friele

Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever. – David Letterman

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee. – Carly Simon

Coffee: Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love. –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago. – Anonymous

Coffee and love are best when they are hot. – German Proverb