Break Quotes

• If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

  T. Harv Eker

  Moving, Break Through, Practice

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 20, 2012

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• It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Improvement

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mom, Mother, Wisdom

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  Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.53, Bantam

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• Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

  James Agee

  Time, Preparation, Tunes

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Color, Sea, Waves Breaking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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• If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Strong, People

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

  Byron Katie

  War, Stress, Break Out

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• The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Break Up, Glasses, Fools Day

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• Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Ocean, Sea, Stones

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 1 (1842)

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• We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

  Bradley Whitford

  Graduation, Believe, Chains

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Break Up, Work

  "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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• If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Hope

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• Life is short, break the rules.

  Mark Twain

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, No Regrets

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• Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

  William Hazlitt

  Commitment, Keeping Promises, People

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• The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Home, Past

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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