Thrust Quotes

• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Night, Greatness, Born Leaders

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.

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• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]

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• The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

  Steve Backley

  Motivation, Fuel, Action

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• We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Dark, Destiny

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• Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

  John W. Gardner

  Greatness, People, Perfection

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.103, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

  David Bowie

  Men, Interesting, Music And Life

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• My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

  Al Pacino

  Shy, Firsts, Language

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

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• Sweep up the debris of decaying faith;
  Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs,
  And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge.
  Be not afraid
  To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Light, Soul, Cobwebs

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Progress”

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• We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been greater, and this is the only way we can release God's power to become victorious

  John C. Maxwell

  Christian, Prayer, Focus

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• I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

  Bea Arthur

  Roles, Movement, Pressure

  TV Legends, August 6, 2005.

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Pain, Past

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or sometimes years - that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.

  Peter Mayle

  Taken, Years, Feelings

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• Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

  Dick Francis

  Being Weird, Weirdness, Achieve

  Dick Francis (2004). “To the Hilt”, p.3, Penguin

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• History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  History, Turns

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• Thou you thrust your dagger at my eye, I will not flinch.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Eye, Daggers

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• Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Pain, Kindness, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 363), 1895.

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• That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead.

  Lauren Oliver

  Realizing, Relentless, Edges

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  Rachel Johnson

  Children, Teenager, Thinking

  "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the heart is toward the one supreme Good, then the words of the apostle will be fulfilled. 'Pray without ceasing,' he said (I Thes. 5:17). 'In every place lift up pure hands, with no anger and no rivalry' (I Tim 2:8). Sensibility is, so to speak, absorbed by this purity. It is reshaped in the likeness of the spiritual and the angelic so that all its dealings, all its activity will be prayer, utterly pure, utterly without tarnish.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Courage is required to make an initial thrust toward one's coveted goal, but even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve. Have the determination to make the effort, the single-mindedne ss to work toward a worthy goal, and the courage not only to face the challenges that inevitably come but also to make a second effort, should such be required.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Goal, Effort

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• Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiration, Heart, Light

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• The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.

  Stephen Colbert

  Heart, Men, Way

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• So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

  Black Elk

  Earth, Red, Sticks

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Agency, Choices, Characteristics

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

  Joseph Heller

  Success, Humorous, People

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