Importunate Quotes

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Whoever is happy will make others happy.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Anne Frank (1952). “The diary of a young girl”

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• It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Being Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Coretta Scott King

  Hater, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World‎" by Leo Parvis, (p. 54), 2006.

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• Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Men, Originality

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

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• Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Strength, Stay Strong, Motivational Sports

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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• Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

  Epicurus

  Men, Charity, Littles

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• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soul, Immortality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Heart, Grandparent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.276, Penguin

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• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

  Charles Darwin

  Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

  Albert Ellis

  Wise, Bullying, Kids

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• In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Business, Track, Wagons

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.217, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Blow, Rich Or Poor

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Being Yourself, Stay Strong, Giving Up

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Views

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.29, Jain Publishing Company

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• The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

  Francois Fenelon

  Art, Want, Appetite

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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cat, Men, Wife

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  Walter Pater

  Reality, Sight, Calling

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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