Lifetime Quotes - Page 31

• Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Needs, Faults

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.145, Penguin

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• One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

  Tim Ferriss

  Class, Skills, World

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• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Ideas, People, Challenges

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• You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

  "You might be a redneck if". Book by Jeff Foxworthy, 1989.

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• I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

  Anne Frank

  Time, Able, Ideals

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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• I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

  Al Franken

  Enough, Devoted

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• Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

  Al Franken

  Hard Work, Class, Promise

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

  Noel Gallagher

  Kids, Giving, Advice

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• I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

  Jerry Garcia

  Years, People, Trying

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• In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

  Andre Gide

  Punishment, Tasks, Hell

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• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  Barry Goldwater

  Party, Wife, People

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• After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Senior, Citizens, Way

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• I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

  Billy Graham

  Taken, Medicine, Incredibles

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• I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

  Eva Green

  Needs, Crafts, Polish

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• Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

  Stanislav Grof

  Culture, Earth, Return

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

  Stanislav Grof

  Existence, Mystical, Realms

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• The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

  Bear Grylls

  Scratches, Needs, Truth Is

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• Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mom, Teaching, Drawing

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• There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

  Conrad Hall

  Jobs, Light, Color

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• It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Rocks, Play, San Diego

  "Neil Patrick Harris pens his Hollywood Survival Guide for this week's cover". www.ew.com. September 22, 2011.

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• After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

  Jim Harrison

  Travel, Reality, Perception

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• In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

  Doc Hastings

  Years, Six, Small Business

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• Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

  Salma Hayek

  Envy, Thank God, Looks

  "Salma Hayek Supports Madonna’s Controversial Tour Style" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2012.

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• Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

  Hunter Hayes

  People, Achievement, Spirit

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• No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Greatness, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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