Pockets Quotes

• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

  Robert Frost

  Trouble, Holes

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• Hope is a pocket of possibility.
  I'm holding it in my hand.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Hands, Possibility

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

  Sara Gruen

  Littles, Protect

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Keys, Key To Happiness

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Hands, Looks

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• We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cities, People, Needs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The deeper your belief, the deeper your pockets.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Belief, Deeper

  Jeffrey Gitomer, Jeffrey H. Gitomer (2007). “Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Platinum Book of Cha-ching!: 32.5 Strategies to Ring Your Own (cash) Register of Business and Personal Success”, Ft Press

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• Money is always there but the pockets change.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Money

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.31, Random House

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• He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

  Victor Hugo

  Reality, Found

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• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Quoted by Christopher Brasher in the Observer,12 Sep 1982.

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• I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

  John Lennon

  Book, Paper, Stuff

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• I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Morning, Shoes

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• Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.

  John Hope Bryant

  Poverty

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• Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Failure, Funny Graduation, Ladders

  "Six Rules on How to Be Successful". Speech at the University of Southern California, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 15, 2009.

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• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Years, Taxation

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, M. Jane Johansson (2001). “The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915”, p.331, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life.

  Maria Popova

  Entrepreneur, Stillness

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living". www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

  "MIT Students Develop A Wearable That Detects Emotions In Speech" by Logan Strain, wearablezone.com. February 09, 2017.

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• Empty pockets make empty heads.

  William Carlos Williams

  Poverty, Empty, Empty Pockets

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Hundred, Thrive

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Talking, Upset, Littles

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

  Robin Gibb

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

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• Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Differences, Assets, Liability

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• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

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