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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• A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Tone, Social, Members

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• I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Jail, Hands

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.158, Vintage

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• History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Society, Age, Records

  Jacob Burckhardt (1964). “Force and Freedom: Reflections on History”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Feelings, Would Be

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt. Chapter: "On Genius and Common Sense", 1822.

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• I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Past, People

  Message to the Nation on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Pakistan, August 14, 1948.

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• Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Evil, Giving, Decision

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.208

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• At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with
  yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

  Epictetus

  Forget, Profit, Communes

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• If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Kindness, Grateful, Long

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• Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

  Moliere

  Indulge In, Literature, Gallantry

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• You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while I stand behind, guarding your back. Sit at the table before me. Please, sample the tastiest morsels while I sit quietly. My desire is that you go first, in every occasion of earthly life. Only once will I go before you, And that will be at my last moment. For when death claims us, you must go last. Because I can't live one second without you.

  Jean Sasson

  Doors, Your Side, Waiting

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• I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Respect, Truth, Too Much

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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