Engagement Quotes - Page 2

• Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Life, Friendship, Thank You

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

  Helen Garner

  Book, Thinking, People

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• All things do go a-courting,
  In earth, or sea, or air,
  God hath made nothing single
  But thee in His world so fair.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Air, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.695, Harvard University Press

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• Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

  Bill Hybels

  Thinking, Years, Church

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• Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Important, Want

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.30, Heinemann

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• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Civilization, Imagination

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Progress, Diplomatic Relations, Imperfect

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• There is no instinct like that of the heart.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Heart, Intuition

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• Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

  Joan Blades

  Mother, Believe, Issues

  "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.

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• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

  Felix Adler

  Relationship, Fashion, Inspirational Love

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

  William Wordsworth

  I Love You, Birthday, Marriage

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• A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

  Kin Hubbard

  Marriage, Girl, Long

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• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Henry Van Dyke, “Time Is”

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• No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

  Jack Welch

  Inspiring, Leadership, Running

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• I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

  Winona Ryder

  Depressing, Years, Remember

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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.108, Penguin

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• Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that

  Michael Leunig

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

  Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.131, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 26, 2014

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• For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

  Rosemonde Gerard

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

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• The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.65, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• My heart to you is given:
  Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  I Love You, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Marriage, Fashion

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1972). “Love letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839-1863”

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