Smooth Quotes

• Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

  Euripides

  Life, Trying, Affair

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

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• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Water, Deception

  The Duke of Suffolk in King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 1.

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• The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Self, Way, Circumstances

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• It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

  Warren Buffett

  America, Paid

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• Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Handle

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• The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.

  Philip Sidney

  Lying, Journey, Honor

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• You can't climb a smooth mountain

  Zig Ziglar

  Mountain, Climbs

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• Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

  Alan Watts

  Water, Mind, Trying

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• If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

  Myrtle Reed

  Inspirational, Feet, People

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• The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Dream, Giving Up, Frustration

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.64, Anchor

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• For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Educational, Persistence, Hands

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.145, Beacon Press

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• may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

  e. e. cummings

  Travel, Home, World

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

  Barbara Walters

  Success, Nice, Women

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• I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

  Henry Rollins

  Want, Planes, Plane Rides

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

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• So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Heart, Adventure, Journey

  Henry Van Dyke (1904). “Music, and Other Poems”

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• But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.

  William Croswell Doane

  Life, Motivational, Stars

  "Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School".

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• In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

  Hesiod

  Perseverance, Sweat, Long

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• Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ivory, People, Dry

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• Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Smooth Sailing

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

  Richard Asher

  Sympathy, Expression, Symptoms

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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• I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

  Walt Disney

  Whipped Cream, Function, Cream

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• A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Patience, Encouragement, Wrinkles

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• No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Progress, Stones, Path

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