937 Kept Quotes for You to Enjoy

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. Robert Half

Failure Laziness Secret Only Fails Person Goes Ingredient Who Kept

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' Ann Richards

Government Saying Me Remember Think Everyone Clean Remember Me Opened Like House She Read Did Want Them Really Tombstone Kept

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

Politics Fight Better Safety Made Men Free Miserable Important Own Nothing Unless Willing No Chance More He Himself His Than Person Personal Being Which Who Creature Chance Kept

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. Lewis Carroll

Life Great Learning Joy Opportunities Laughter Too Harmony Our Danger Solemn Seek Spirit Thus Wit Look Exercising Mockery While Apart Them Should Full Deeper Things Kept Amusement

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. Sitting Bull

Broken Man Red Whites Kept Treaty

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Thomas Fuller

Memory Mind Preserved Monuments House Wherein Thereof Treasure Kept

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. Louis L'Amour

Time Waiting People Year Books Say Jobs Kind Restaurant See People Say Record Absolute Read Nonsense Hear Hear People Friends Dentist Offices Often Which While Places Many Twenty-Five Applying Kept

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. Bob Feller

Time Me Father Parents Country Half Year Busy Corn Rule Kid Would Would-Be Running Followed Hay Dawn Tractor Mitt His Dusk Behind Pitching Cut Juvenile Barn Baseball Kept

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part. Brian Eno

Surrender Balance Technically Become Few Control Situation Controlling Incredibly Neglected Adept Carried Ourselves Thousand Thousand Years Take Part Years Surrendering Then Treasured Last Kept

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Heinrich Heine

Book Reading Dreamed Boredom Fell Sheer Dull Asleep Kept

The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication. Karan Patel

Teacher School Days Memory Unfinished School Homework Numerous Extremely About Days Involved Any Heavy Incident Recall Medication Kept Funniest Stretch

Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal. Orison Swett Marden

Beautiful You Struggle Soul Creative Better Mind Will Expectation Conviction Live Something Better Things Condition Goal Very Intelligent Efforts Grand Upward Your Await Large Things Kept

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Simone de Beauvoir

Inferiority Become Situation Fact Individual He Does Inferior Kept

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Steve Jobs

Business Beatles Negative Other Others Sum Total Guys Tendencies Check Balanced Greater Parts Were Than Model Each Four Kept

Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making. Michelle Phan

When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats. Stan Musial

Walk Bat Our Later Bats Out Stealing Wee Through Had He Disappearing Come Dodgers Got Dugout Louis Walker Stole St. Louis Where After Rack Turns Figure Baseball Found Right Played Kept

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. William Cowper

Home Has-Been Roam How How Much Been Dunce Sent Much Kept

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you. Anne Sweeney

Work Day Great Me You Mind Great Day Paper Pen Great Ideas Excitement Ideas Because Occur Been Years Lot Off Hit Just Turn Turn-Off Pad Your Team Things Night Kept

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy. Charles Spurgeon

Love God Speak Better Long Mercy Before Preach Believe Others Some More Directly Tender Had Perhaps Him Were His Than Done While Us Should Who Found Received Kept

I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I said that the tallest doll needed to be on the end, and my little friend said to me, 'Oh, you're just so bossy.' I remember thinking that wasn't a good thing. But I kept insisting the doll had to be on the end anyway. Condoleezza Rice

Good Me You Remember School Old Thinking Insisting Having Bossy Good Thing Had Remember When Tallest Said Were Doll Years Dolls Friend End Oh Just Where Different Anyway Little Display Event Thing Kept Needed

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