Constant Quotes - Page 28

• O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

  Amy Carmichael

  Victory, God Love

  Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.411, CLC Publications

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• I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Clear Goals, Effort

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• Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

  David Abram

  Thinking, Animal, Body

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• Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

  Medard Boss

  Memories, Dwelling, Fundamentals

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• Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.

  Caroline Knapp

  Sex, Garden, Giving

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• Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.

  Tom Wesselmann

  Art, Goal, Growth

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• I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Thinking, May

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.34, Bantam

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• Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Belief, Secrecy

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [113]

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• It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Voice, Belief

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.108, Open Road Media

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• We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Competition, Words Of Wisdom, Who We Are

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Betrayal

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making thousands of constant decisions - focused, professional tenacity - day after day of keeping commitments to yourself and to those you make promises to. If you fail, it's all your fault. If you succeed, you deserve all the credit.

  Mark Kostabi

  Success, Art, Commitment

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• A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Men, Should

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Beautiful, Stars, Guides

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• Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

  John Locke

  Ideas, Movement, Time Management

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• Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

  P. T. Barnum

  Home, Nails, Lasts

  P. T. Barnum (2006). “Art of Money Getting: Easyread Edition”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Moving, Half

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

  Ed Vargo

  Sports, Jobs, Perfect

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• But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the air, the sun in order to grow, to expand, to flow. To remain alive it needs a constant flow; if it becomes stagnant it becomes slowly slowly a dead phenomenon.

  Rajneesh

  Order, Wind, Sky

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• You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.

  Garry Kasparov

  Strong, Believe, Winning

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.81, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Angel, Men

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• There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Miracle, Done

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) Easter Day, 25 March 1627

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• Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Fighting, Cutting, Genius

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

  Louis Aragon

  Truth, Errors, May

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• God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Pain, Choices

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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