Reason Why Quotes - Page 14

• The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Giving Up, People, Looks

  Twitter post from Apr 02, 2014

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• Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.

  Melissa Sue Anderson

  Adversity, Decision, Brave

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• . . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Blood, Sea

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3670, Manonmani Publishers

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• Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

  Ralph Marston

  Focus, Done, Excuse

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• Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

  Thomas Dreier

  Perseverance, Successful, Past

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• There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

  Peter Cushing

  Hate, Two, Theatre

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• The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  Greed, Body, Wealth

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Happiness, Spiritual, Humanity

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• Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try

  Hilary Duff

  Trying, Forget, Reason

  Song: Fly

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• One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Special, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  John Stott (2013). “Christ in Conflict: Lessons from Jesus and His Controversies”, p.85, InterVarsity Press

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• One of the principal reasons why so many fail to get what they want is because they do not definitely know what they want, or because they change their wants almost every day. Know what you want and continue to want it. You will get it if you combine desire with faith. The power of desire when combined with faith becomes invincible.

  Christian D. Larson

  Desire, Want, Failing

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• There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Should Have, Over You, Substance

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• This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur—who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving—all give us an advantage.

  Yossi Vardi

  Moving, Israel, Giving

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• The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.

  Edward Glaeser

  Real, Cities, Collaboration

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• A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

  Martin Feldstein

  Judgement, Financial, Behavior

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• And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Movie, Concern, Corporate

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• Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Society, Doe

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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• The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

  Paul Dirac

  Math, Practice, Data

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• The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, House, Important

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• I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Simple, Black, Would Be

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Simple, Sixteen, Written

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Struggle

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