Plowing Quotes - Page 2

• It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

  Bill Cosby

  Education, World, May

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• I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

  Rachel Nichols

  Book, Night, Thinking

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• All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.

  Tony Robbins

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Successful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 11, 2012

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• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

  Charles Edison

  Dollars, Raw Materials, Action

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• What I'm saying is that until somebody steps up and actually has a forceful attack on Donald Trump and actually takes him down a notch, Donald Trump is just going to keep plowing through.

  Sean Hannity

  Steps, Step Up, Trump

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wisdom, Struggle, Fighting

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• When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

  Alice Paul

  Peace, Women, Ubuntu

  "The Women’s Deliberation Movement" by Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• ... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

  Anne Bancroft

  Lonely, Journey, Family And Friends

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• the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Rosary, Firsts, Praying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1313, Library of Alexandria

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Levels

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, More Time, Conventions

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wisdom, Freedom, Rain

  Frederick Douglass (2014). “Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Perseverance, Persistence, Waiting

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• We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspiration, Ambition, Play

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• I kind of missed the whole running into each other thing. Provided a lot of excitement." "I don't miss that," I admitted, bending over and rummaging through my bag for my notebook. "That was really embarrassing." "It shouldn't have been." "Easy for you to say. You're the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing." Cam's mouth opened. Oh my God, did I really just say that? I had.

  J. Lynn

  Notebook, Running, Missing

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• I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Two, Half, Might

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.156, Penguin Group

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• We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]

  Rick Riordan

  Peppers, Shut Up, Sadie

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Struggle, Tyrants, Progress

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Spring, Home, Humility

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.185, Hamilton Books

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• First and foremost is to not allow the reestablishment, if you will, of an extremist sanctuary that can export the kind of terror that ended up with terrorists taking down the World Trade Center and plowing into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. That's the point: We started this war because the Sept. 11 attack came from this area. And we do not fight alone, but with some 40 allies who share that view.

  David Petraeus

  War, Fighting, Views

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• She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Moving, Water, Way

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• The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, People, Peaceful

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• Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

  Hilaire Belloc

  Real, Writing, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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