Temporary Quotes - Page 18

• Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Lasts, Program

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• I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

  Wendell Willkie

  Believe, Loss, Gains

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Running, Player, Risk

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• The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

  John McAfee

  Years, Two, Viruses

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• Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Death, Years, Enemy

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• Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Compassion, Self

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• All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Matter, Facts

  "America Abroad". content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

  Herman Melville

  Tyrants, Insult, Slave

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.276, Northwestern University Press

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• Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Forever, Quitting

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• The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Stupid, Political Language, Progress

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• What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.

  Randy Alcorn

  Friday, Trump, Eternal

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Ninety Days of God's Goodness: Daily Reflections That Shine Light on Personal Darkness”, p.75, Multnomah

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• Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Stones, Outcomes

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

  Duane Michals

  Fashion, Art, Two

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• I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

  John Bachar

  Climbing, Body, Matter

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• Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Quitting, Surrender

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• You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Army, Battle, Needs

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• Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

  LeCrae

  Joy, Distraction

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• If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Believe, Temporary Defeat

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

  Evel Knievel

  Pain, Scar, Bones

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• Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true

  Doreen Virtue

  Dream, Disappointment, Path

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Jan 21, 2015

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• Motivation is temporary. Inspiration is permanent.

  Kelly Slater

  Motivation, Inspiration, Permanent

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• Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Disappointment, Mind, Changing Your Life

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 18, 2016

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• Broke is temporary, poor is eternal.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Poor, Broke

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Mar 26, 2013

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• I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Unique, Challenges, Growth

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• Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

  Chanakya

  Night, Religion, Wicked

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