Every Occasion Quotes

• To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Gun, Strong Arms, People

  Richard Henry Lee (1978). “Letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican”, Univ of Alabama Pr

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• We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

  John Wooden

  Winning, Best Effort, Giving

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

  Stendhal

  Witty, Character, Thinking

  Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills.

  St. Vincent

  Self, Perfection, Saint

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Latin, Fall, Rights

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• The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Path, Courtesy

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• During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Britain, Late

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

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• What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

  Epictetus

  Life, Asking, Good Person

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• Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

  Orison Swett Marden

  May, Higher, Occasions

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• Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the
  first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no
  explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for
  intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of
  thought on every occasion.

  Chuck Jones

  Children, Men, Firsts

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• Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

  Robert Musil

  Hands, Clothes, Stupidity

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press

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• You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

  Robert E. Lee

  Children, Honesty, Mean

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Broken

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• Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Men, Practice, People

  "An Additional Number of Letters to the Republican". Letters by the Federal Farmer (pseudonym of Richard Henry Lee), Letter XVIII, teachingamericanhistory.org. January 25, 1988.

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• The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

  Ed Koch

  Friendly, Supportive, Media Training

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• Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest

  Natalie Portman

  Use, Mint, Starbucks

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• Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Friends, Mean, People

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• The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than the walls, the bolts, and the eunuchs of a persian harem. To this reason, another may be added of a more honourable nature. The Germans treated their women with esteem and confidence, consulted them on every occasion of importance, and fondly believed that in their breasts resided a sanctity and wisdom more than human.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wall, Eye, History

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.237, Modern Library

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• Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Book, Men, Talking

  Marvin Mudrick (1979). “Books are Not Life, But Then, what Is?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

  William E. Gladstone

  Cities, Political, Politics

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• On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Prayer, Light

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Simple, Thinking

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• Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

  Fred Barnes

  Stories, Bills, Excuse

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• You can eat an omelet at midnight, at lunchtime, all day long. It's perfect for every occasion.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Long, Perfect, Midnight

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Together

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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