Bears Quotes

• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Pearson Education

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Gratitude

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• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

  Phillips Brooks

  Forgiveness, Faults, Vengeful

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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• Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Thinking, Order

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

  Toni Morrison

  Smile, People, Annoyed

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Believe, Men

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

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• Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dance, Stars, Long

  Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by Francis Steegmuller)

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• And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Football, Games

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• He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

  Philip Massinger

  Suicide, Lying, Valiant

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  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Positive, Sports

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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• If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

  Nhat Hanh

  Uplifting, Hope, Believe

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• To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Reality, Crowns

  1601 Address to parliament. Quoted in G R Elton Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1648 (2nd edn, 1968), p.134.

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• Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  Aristotle

  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Success, Patience

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• A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

  A. A. Milne

  Fitness, Exercise, Trying

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.106, Egmont UK

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  To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

  George Mason

  Strength, Peace, Gun

  George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.

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• Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

  Corazon Aquino

  Inspirational, Faith, Patience

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• A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

  John Ciardi

  Change, Ideas, Growth

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