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What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to getting better.

Author: Vince Lombardi
Topics: Defeat, Education, Nothing

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have see our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back

Author: Vince Lombardi
Topics: Goal, Heavy, Nothing, Rougher, Sky

The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Author: O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Situation

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Author: Victor Hugo
Topics: Empty, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Pocket

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Familiarity, Famous, Heart, Nothing, Sacred, Things

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Character, Company, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

Without your health, you’ve got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.

Author: Ric Flair
Topics: Good, Health, Nothing

For me, it’s about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something’s going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

Author: Ric Flair
Topics: Always, Business, Everything, Friends, Nothing

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Cheap, Christianity, Famous, Nothing, Sacrifice, Thinking, Worth

Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Christian, Famous, Nothing

Let us watch against pride in every shape – pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness, pride in our own deserts. Nothing is so likely to keep a man out of heaven, and prevent him seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something, we shall never be saved.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Famous, Goodness, Heaven, Jesus Christ, Nothing, Pride, Saved, Wealth

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Christianity, Cost, Famous, Nothing, Prove, Religion, Worth

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Christianity, Famous, Nothing, Sacrifice, Thinking, Worth

Everything we’ve done for the last 17 years—there’s nothing to show for it.

Author: J. C. Chandor
Topics: Famous, Frustration, Nothing, Unrewarding

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

Author: J. B. Priestley
Topics: Famous, Greater, Nothing, Parasites, Write

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

Author: J. B. Priestley
Topics: Famous, Fellow, Nothing, Producing, Reputation, Rising, Write, Wrong

I was surrounded, and often enchanted, it appeared, by nothings.

Author: J. B. Priestley
Topics: Famous, Nothing, Surrounded

Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.

Author: J. B. Bickerstaff
Topics: NBA, Nothing, Perfect

Nothing is black and white. There are no universal standards that determine what’s good and what’s evil. It’s subjective.

Author: J. A. Konrath
Topics: Determine, Evil, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Subjectivism, Universal

Success means nothing unless you have someone to share it with.

Author: J. A. Konrath
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Means, Nothing, Share, Success

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Topics: Leaps, Nothing, Reaction

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Topics: Complete, Nothing, Saved

It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

Author: Jack London
Topics: Everything, Feared, Happen, Nothing, Sum, Unthinkable

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.

Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, God, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Patience, Positive

Good hearts weighed nothing with the queen.

Author: Gail Carson Levine
Topics: Famous, Hearts, Nothing, Queen

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God’s sight.

Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Famous, Holiness, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Positive, Praise

I’m not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I’ve never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

Author: Iain Glen
Topics: Experiences, Fact, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, People, Positive

The true measure of a person’s character is how they treat those who can do nothing for them

Author: I.King jordan
Topics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Positive, True

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything

Author: Thom Yorke
Topics: Everything, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Author: Jack London
Topics: Memories, Nothing

His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It’s wrong, lack of cream.

Author: Gail Carriger
Topics: Eyes, Famous, Humor, Nothing, Peculiar

Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.

Author: Gagan Narang
Topics: Famous, India, Non-cricket sports, Nothing, Promoting, School, Sports

In the land of progressive Unicornia, science is only valuable if it is consistent with ideological dogma. Otherwise it is nothing more than bigoted hate facts.

Author: Gad Saad
Topics: Consistency, Consistent, Facts, Famous, Hate, Land of progressive, Nothing, Science, Unicorn, Valuable

Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.

Author: Thérèse of Lisieux
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Heart, Life, Love, Made, Meaningful, Nothing, Positive

There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.

Author: Kanye West
Topics: Ability, Famous, Learn, Life, Nothing, Skill, Wanted

It sounds like a cliché, but without a strong group, you win nothing in football.

Author: Kaka
Topics: Famous, Football, Nothing, Sounds, Strong group, Strong team, Win

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

Author: Tom Cruise
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Give, Inspirational, Interested, Kind, Nothing, Person, Something

I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.

Author: Kacy Hill
Topics: Famous, Insane, Long nails, Nails, Nothing, Thoughts

There’s nothing quite like the sound of a baseball hitting a wooden bat

Author: A. B. Yehoshua
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Leading, Leads, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Quietly, Quite, Quits, Soulmate, Sound, Soundest

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man’s needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet

Author: Theophile Gautier
Topics: Disgusting, Expression, Famous, House, Meaningful, Nature, Need, Nothing, Place, Truly, Useful

Once you get labeled, there’s nothing you can do about it

Author: Tim Burton
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Labeled, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

There’s nothing awful that comes from baseball

Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Leading, Leads, Lesson, Let go, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Positive

If a word means everything, then in means nothing

Author: Thomas Sowell
Topics: Everything, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Nothing, People

Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Heaven, Impregnable, Meaningful, Nothing

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the putdownable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Condition, Crisis, Doors, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hours, Hunger, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Ruin, World

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Church, Conclusions, Nothing, Principles, Rests, Study, Theology

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Advantages, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Infinitely, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Peace, Victory

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it’s true That who is what and what is who.” – Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne
Topics: Leadership, Leading edge, Leads, Nothing, Skillful, Sky, Something, Something for nothing, Sometimes, Wonder, Wonderful

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Certain, Death, Dying, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Time, Uncertain

Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating.

Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Famous, Nothing

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Famous, Harmony, Kind, Meaningful, Metaphysical, Moral, Mystical, Nothing, Preach, Speak, Truth

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Author: H. L. Mencken
Topics: Famous, Humorous, Man, Nothing

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine treesf

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Famous, Feelings, God, Meaningful, Nothing, Pine, Treesf, Wind

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

Author: A. A. Milne
Topics: Hear, Interest, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Lesson, Letting, Listen, Listening, Nothing, Understand, Understanding Language

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

 

Author: A. A. Milne
Topics: Famous, Impossible, Lesson, Letting, Meaningful, Nothing, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions

Nothing transformed the politics, the economy and the table of Europe like the potato. The tuber from Peru.

Author: A. A. Gill
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Policy, Political, Suggests, Suitable, True courage, true economy, True faith

A government, at bottom, is nothing more than a gang of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men … Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. Indeed, it would not be far wrong to describe the best as the common enemy of all decent citizens.

Author: H. L. Mencken
Topics: Citizen, Common, Cruel, Decent, Enemy, Famous, Good, Government, Inferior, Matter, Nothing, Practical, Tolerable, Unintelligent, Wrong

The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie’s warning about wealth: ‘There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else

Author: A. A. Gill
Topics: Nothing, Notice, positive-minded, Positivity, Possessed, Possession, Proof

If you do nothing long enough, something’s bound to happen.

Author: H. Jon Benjamin
Topics: Famous, Happen, Long, Nothing, Something

I envisage a world which is almost impossible to imagine in this country. A world in which race would count for nothing.

Author: James Baldwin
Topics: Famous, Impossible, Meaningful, Nothing

Of course, only Americans can name a shop In-n-Out Burger without collapsing into a heap of dirty sniggers. You know the difference between them and us? To us, a double entendre means only one thing; to them, it means absolutely nothing

Author: A. A. Gill
Topics: Dirty, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Mean, Meaningful, Nothing, Togetherness, Works

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven

Author: James Baldwin
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Society

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Famous, Knowledge, Leads, Literary, Nothing, Straight

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Devices, Engineering, Famous, Imperfection, Machinery, Measure, Nothing, Obliged, Railways, Ugly

The choice is: the Universe…or nothing.

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Choice, Famous, Nothing, Universe

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Famous, God, Matters, Nothing

Nothing could be sillier than we got good people here. We got the same cross-section of assholes as anywhere.

Author: H. G. Bissinger
Topics: Famous, Nothing, People

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me… I’m just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Topics: Cross, Famous, Importance, Never Happened, Nothing, Ordinary girls, Streets

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Efficiency, Effort, Having, Having enough, Leads, Life Cycle, life lesson, Life Long Journey, Nothing

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Topics: Always, Clarity, False, Famous, Feelings, Idea, Inspirational, Knowledge, Meaningful, Nothing, Ones, Thinking, Truth, Wisdom, Wrong

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Topics: Different, Diversity, Equality, Equity, Experiences, Fairness, Famous, Feelings, Individuality, Inequality, Justice, Meaningful, More, Nothing, People, Treatment, Unequal

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Topics: Achieving, Dedication, Determination, Earth, Famous, Feelings, Goal, Growth Mindset, Help, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mental Attitude, Nothing, Positive, Positive Thinking, Right, Stop, Success, Wrong

Give me your hand and we’ll dance; give me your hands and love me. Like one flower we’ll be, and nothing else.

Author: Gabriela Mistral
Topics: Dance, Famous, Flowers, Hand, Inspirational, Like, Love, Nothing, Poetry

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Topics: Critical thinking, Education, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Media, Newspapers, Nothing, Reading

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere

Author: Thomas Hobbes
Topics: Depth, Existence, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hath, Length, Life, Magnitude, Mass, Meaningful, Nothing, Part, Philosophy, Positive, Things, Universe

Hard work, nothing to divert my thought, clear air and simple food made my life very pleasant

Author: Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Dedication, Diverts, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Focus, Food, Hardwork, Life, Lifestyles, Made, Meaningful, Nothing, Pleasant, Positive, Simple, Thoughts

I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Author: Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Determination, Execution, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fellow, Focus, Idea, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Productivity, Respect, Results, Single Idea, Thousand

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the worldworl

Author: Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Contributions, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Giving, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Obligation, Owes, Responsibility, Service, Something, World

Ah, yeah, nothing like putting your hard-earned paycheck in the hands of hormonal teens. That’s what I call living.

Author: Gabriel Iglesias
Topics: Famous, Hard, Humorous perspective, Living, Nothing

For Kim did nothing with an immense success.

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Topics: Nothing, Success

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

Author: Theodor Herzl
Topics: Human System, Humanity, Humanize life, Humanizing, Lesson, Letting go, Nothing, Notice, Remain

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Topics: Fact, Factor, Habit, Nothing, Notice, Real release, Real-Life, Realistically, Sudden, Suffer

Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Difficult, Famous, Inspirational, Love, Nothing, World

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

 

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Earth, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Male friends, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Passion, Passionate Situations, Questioning, Quickly, Requirement, Resentment

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Nothing, Person, Way

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Famous, Immoral, Inspirational, Love, Nothing, Perpetuate

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Famous, Illusion, Inspirational, Nothing, Realization, Relation

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Literature, Nothing, Reality

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

 

Author: Franz Kafka
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, myself, Necessity, Need, Nothing, Notice, Something, Something for nothing

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say, and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Topics: Freedom, Freedom of expression, Goals, God, God willing, Nothing, Notice, Use of power, Used, Useful, Useful Things

A true Zen saying: ‘Nothing is what I want.

Author: Frank Zappa
Topics: Leadership, Leads, Nothing, Troublesome, True, True courage, Want, Wanted

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Courage, Course, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Master, Master key, New Paths, New Things, New ways, Nothing

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Countries, Country, Moving, Moving forward, Nothing, Notice, Place, Plain, Self, Self Belief, Self Care

There is no such thing as second place. Either you’re first or you’re nothing.

Author: Gabe Paul
Topics: Famous, First, Nothing, Second, Things

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

Author: Jay-Z
Topics: Famous, Feeling, Meaningful, Nothing

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

Author: Epictetus
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Little, Meaningful, Nothing, Satisfied

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

Author: Epictetus
Topics: Death, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Man, Meaningful, Nothing, People, Realizes, Terrible

But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Famous, Hard, Hard conditions, Inspirational, Lose, Manage, Management, Meaningful, Nothing, Something, Something for nothing

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

 

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Fell, Fellow, Noble, Nothing, Notice, Self, Self Belief, Superior, superior leader, True, True artist

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Corruption, Grow, Grow up, Nothing, Notice, Win, Wind

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you – what a revelation.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Discover, Discovered, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Pride, Prideful, Revelation, Something, Something for nothing

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Existed, Existence, Lifelong, Lifelong Learning, Lifestyles, Lifetimes, Nothing, Rejection, Rejection of hatred, Times, Times of difficulty

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Lesson, Letting go, Nothing, Notice, Proves, Something, Something for nothing

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass – which is better than trying to fill them.

 

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Granted, Nothing, Pass, Passes, Passing, See, Try, Trying

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Studied, Throughout

Nothing is going to change. I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well stop talking about it.

Author: Gabby Douglas
Topics: Change, Famous, Hair, Hairstyle, Nothing, Personal choice, Personal decision, Wear

A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep his dreams in check, but there’s nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope. The

Author: Ian Caldwell
Topics: Famous, Greek, Meaningful, Nothing

What a strange thing, to build a castle in the air. We made a friendship out of nothing, because nothing was the heart of what we shared.

Author: Ian Caldwell
Topics: Famous, Hearts, Meaningful, Nothing, Strange

A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there’s nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope.

Author: Ian Caldwell
Topics: Centuries, Dangerous, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Author: Epictetus
Topics: Famous, Freedom, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Right, Wish

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Author: Epictetus
Topics: Famous, Good, Inspirational, Know, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

Nothing gold can stay.

Author: Robert Frost
Topics: Famous, Gold, Nothing

dieTo accomplish nothing and die of the strain

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Die, Nothing, Notice, Straightforward, Strain

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

 

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: False, False gods, Historically, History, Hit, Mind, mind of state, Nothing, Notice, Temple, Temporarily

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Everything, Evidence, Lesson, Letting go, New Things, New worlds, Nothing

It’s not really true that nothing is impossible.

Author: Enzo Ferrari
Topics: Famous, Impossible, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, True

Saying nothing sometimes says the most.

Author: Emily Dickinson
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Most, Nothing, Positive

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Forever, Longer, Nothing, Notice, Something, Something for nothing, Understanding Language, Understood

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

Author: Ellen G. White
Topics: Famous, Father, Heavenly, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Thousand

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Author: Ellen G. White
Topics: Famous, Fear, History, Inspirational, Life, Lord, Meaningful, Nothing, Past, Teaching

There is a formula: 100% of me is nothing compared to 1% of the whole team.

Author: Eliud Kipchoge
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Expensive, Famous, Meaningful, Missed, Nothing

Nothing is stronger than a peaceful mind.

Author: Eliud Kipchoge
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Nothing, Peaceful, Stronger

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

 

Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Days, Dead, Eyes, Fire, Fire fighters, Nothing, Sky, Spare, Spark, Stars, Start

Cheops’ Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Topics: Budget, Built, Nothing, Schedule

The nation that prepares for war will sooner or later have war. We get just anything we prepare for, and we get nothing else. Everything that happens is a sequence: this happened today because you did that yesterday.

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Everything, Getting, Happen, Happening, Lesson, Nothing, Notice, Something, Something for nothing, Suddenly, Suffer

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Famous, Greatest, Life, Little, Meaningful, Nothing, Sin

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Darkness, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, People, Succeed

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Declaration, Despair, Evil, Famous, Hands, Inspirational, Irreversible Impact, Life, Meaningful, Men, Necessary, Nothing, Pilates, Succeed

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Courage, eradicate, Famous, Fears, God, Helvetius, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Nothing, voltaire

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Famous, feeble, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Oppression, Unjust

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Famous, Hypocrisy, Inspirational, Intending, Life, Magnificence, Magnificent, Meaningful, Never, Nothing, Promise, Promises

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Famous, Greater, Inspirational, Lesson, Life, life lesson, Little, Meaningful, Mistake, Nobody, Nothing, People, Positive

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Evil, Famous, Good, Inspirational, Meaningful, Necessary, Nothing, Triumph, triumph of evil

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Author: Stephen Hawking
Topics: Famous, Forever, Meaningful, Nothing

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Author: Richard P. Feynman
Topics: Found, Nothing

Yeah, our connection’s so magnetic on the floor Nothing can stop us tonight

Author: Bruno Mars
Topics: Connection, Magical, Magnet, Magnetize, Nothing, Notice, Stop

When I see your face There’s not a thing that I would change ’cause you’re amazing Just the way you are

Author: Bruno Mars
Topics: Always, Change, Change of Power, Face, Nothing, Something, Something for nothing

Sometimes nothing is happening and all that disaster just happens in your mind

Author: Bad Bunny
Topics: Disaster, Grown Up, Growth Mindset, Happening, Mindful, Nothing, Something for nothing, Sometimes

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Author: Cristiano Ronaldo
Topics: Football, Footballer, Nothing, Notice, Sport, Sports People, Trust, Truth

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Author: Richard M. Nixon
Topics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nothing, Opportunity

Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

Author: Richard M. Nixon
Topics: Country, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Positive, Treasure

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

Author: Richard M. Nixon
Topics: Country, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Nothing, People

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn’t know a thing about me, my sport – he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.

 

Author: Conor McGregor
Topics: Insane, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Level, Level-headed, Nothing, Notice, Sport, Sportsperson, Things, Thinking

Nothing tops making a living off your passion.

Author: G-Eazy
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Living, Make, Nothing, Passion

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

Author: Richard Bach
Topics: Everything, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

 

Author: Confucius
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Remember, Valuable advice, Valuable lesson

Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are wiling to do your best.

 

Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Freedom, Freedom of expression, Freely, Nothing, Notice, Thankful, Will, Willing

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

 

Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Freedom of expression, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Unless, Will, Will power

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.

Author: Groucho Marx
Topics: Famous, Never, Nothing, Problem

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Author: Ray Bradbury
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Imagine, Meaningful, Nothing, Something, Woman

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

 

Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, News attention, Next Level, Nothing, Organization, Title

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

Author: Coco Chanel
Topics: Dress, Dress Up, Lesson, Letting go, Necklace, Need, Nothing, Old Story, Old-Fashioned, Older, Sooner, Soothing

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

Author: Coco Chanel
Topics: Alive, Famous, Feelings, Life, Lifelong, Lifelong Learning, Lifestyles, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Ugly

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have fucked with? That’s me.

 

Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Everything, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Preparation, Preparation for Sacrifice, Somebody

There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Famous, Nothing, Without

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Knowledge, Meaningful, Nothing

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but god.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Himself, Lost, Meaningful, Nothing

The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Nothing, Reality, Self

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

 

Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Character, Charge, Famous, Feelings, Fun, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Yourself

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nothing, Truth, Ultimate

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Exist, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Mind, Nothing

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Creation, Exist, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

What happens when we’re dead? The short answer is, ‘Nothing.’ The long answer is, ‘I don’t know, but I’m not in a hurry to find out

Author: Christopher Hitchens
Topics: Dead, Fault, Happen, Happening, Nothing

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more

Author: Christopher Hitchens
Topics: Dealing, Famous, Feelings, Life, Love Life, Loved, Lovingly, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Position, Positive, Positive aspects, Positive Change, Positive emotion

I didn’t have no friends or nothing; I was a nerdy kid.

Author: Post Malone
Topics: Famous, Friends, Kid, Nothing

You can’t improve on saying nothing.

Author: Golda Meir
Topics: Famous, Improve, Inspirational, Nothing, Saying, Unable

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Topics: Famous, Nothing, Power

I’ve got nothing to hide.

Author: Gordon Ramsay
Topics: Famous, Hide, Inspirational, Nothing

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king’s eye.

Author: Plutarch
Topics: Eye, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Author: Plutarch
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Penny

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

Author: Plutarch
Topics: Famous, Listen, Meaningful, Nothing, Speaking

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nothing

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Experiences, Eye, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Tongue

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Condition, Decision, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

A well-managed plant, I soon learned, is a quiet place. A factory that is “dramatic,” a factory in which the “epic of industry” is unfolded before the visitor’s eyes, is poorly managed. A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Happens, Industry, Learned, Managed, Meaningful, Nothing, Routine

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn’t preparation for work and never was.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Function, Industries, Meaningful, Never, Nothing, Preparation, Responsibility

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Dangerous, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Perception

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Topics: End Up, Famous, God, Inspirational, Nothing, Problem

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Leaders, Meaningful, Nothing, Popular

At the heart of our faith stand not a preoccupation with our own welfare and comfort but the concepts of service and of sacrifice as shown in the life and teachings of the one who made himself nothing, taking the very form of a servant.

Author: Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nothing, Sacrifice, Servant

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Accomplished, Business, Enough, Everything, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Priorities

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Topics: Famous, History, Make, Nothing, People, See

There is nothing wrong with electricity; nothing except that modern man is not a god who holds the thunderbolts but a savage who is struck by lightning.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Topics: Lightning, Nothing, Savage, Thunderbolts, Wrong

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Thousand, Vanity

Sometimes it’s better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Sometimes

There’s nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Useless

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Famous, Living, Meaningful, Moment, Nothing

For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Famous, Fire, Light, Love, Mask, Meaningful, Nothing

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Famous, Free, Meaningful, Nothing

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Efficient, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Productive

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Topics: Certain, Famous, Inspirational, Nothing, Uncertain

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Wrong

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Manage, Meaningful, Nothing

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Child, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Lose, Meaningful, Nothing

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Nothing, Wrong

Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Everything, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nothing

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Author: Douglas Adams
Topics: Famous, Happen, Meaningful, Moment, Nothing

If you love with violence and you hate with violence, there’s nothing that can be questioned. People say, ‘Oh, you’d better work through your resentments.’ Yeah, no. I’m gonna hang on to them, and they’re gonna fuel my attack. And they’re going to fuel the battle cry of my deadly and dangerous and secret and silent soldiers. Because they’re all around you. Sorry, you thought you were just messing with one dude. Winning.

 

Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Dead, Dudes, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Love Letter, Loved, Lovely, Meaningful, Nothing, People, Question, Questioning, Silent, Soldier, Violence, Work

Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

 

Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Famous, Fear, Fear of punishment, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Never, Never Ending, Nothing, Notice, Realizing, Reason, Reasonable

You have this great big fantasy life, and it looks like a non-stop 24/7 party. But what do you do when you get to the end of the Internet and there’s nothing left to buy? There’s just a picture of Wayne Newton flipping you off.

 

Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Ending, Experiences, Famous, Fan, Feelings, Forward-looking, Internet, Interpretation, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Picture book, Pictures

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.

 

Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Hate, Love Letter, Loved, Lovemaking, Nothing, Notice, Questioning, Quickly, Violation, Violent

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Author: Paris Hilton
Topics: Famous, Letting, Meaningful, Nothing

Ibiza, if you’ve never been there before, is very overwhelming. It’s like nowhere on earth. The best advice is to sleep as late as possible because nothing gets going until around 3am and it goes until like 7 or 8.

Author: Paris Hilton
Topics: Earth, Famous, Meaningful, Never, Nothing, Overwhelming, Possible

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

 

Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Love interest, Love Life, Loved, Lovemaking, Meaningful, Middle, Nothing, Notice

Imagination means nothing without doing.

 

Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Creations, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Image, Imagination, Imaginative idea, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Valuable lesson

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

 

Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Nothing, Permanent, Permanent happiness, Something, Troublemaker, Troubles

Without promotion, something terrible happens nothing.

Author: P. T. Barnum
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Terrible

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even out of trouble.

Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Permanent, Trouble, Troublesome, Workings, World

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles

 

Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Nothing, Periods of happiness, Permanent, Permanent happiness, Something for nothing, Trouble, Troublemaker, Workings, Workout, World

If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christ, Christians, Church, Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Male friends, Man, Nothing, Notice, Something, Something for nothing

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Ambition, Everything, Everywhere, Healthy, Hear, Heart, Heart Rate, Himself, Nothing, Pure, Seeking, Things, Thinking, Thinking mind

Do you not know that his name is the happy God, and nothing gives him greater happiness then to give happiness to his creatures.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Given, Giving, Happiest, Happiness, Happy, Nothing, Notice, Unknown

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Day-To-Day, Days, Nothing, Things, Think, Thinking mind, Workings, World

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Created, Creating, Everything, Learn, Learning, Nothing, Precious, Teach, Teaching

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

 

Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nothing, Self-Important, Simplicity, Simply, Something, Something for nothing, Valuable, Valuable lesson

Since nothing stands in the way of the movability of the earth, I believe we must now investigate whether it also has several motions, so that it can be considered one of the planets.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.

Author: George Washington Carver
Topics: Famous, Inspiring, Life, Nothing, Self-Discovery

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

 

Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Injustice, Inspirational, Life, Little, Little Dancer, Meaningful, Nothing, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Perceiving, World

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

 

Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Down, Dream, Ending, Endless desire, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Inspired, Knowing, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Sleep, Wish

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

 

Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Death, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Life Long Journey, Life-changing event, Meaningful, Nothing, Suffer

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.

 

Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Everything, Famous, Feelings, Life, Longing, Look, Looking back, Meaningful, Nothing, Rule, Rules to live by

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

 

Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Humor, Inspirational, Irresistible, Irresponsible, Laughter, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Die, Earth, Finish, Good, Horrible, Human, Human behavior, Nothing, Paper, Reaching, React

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Free, Free of cost, Nothing, Notice, Poor, Poor People, Society

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Famous, Hardly, Inspirational, Life, Lives, Living Fully, Matter, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, People, People’s Opinions, Strange, Totally, Wasting

Nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Walked, Walking, Wall

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Sense of freedom, Sense of fulfillment, Sense of humility

There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it’s too late and there’s nothing worse than too late

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Late, Learn, Learning from Mistakes, Nothing, Reality, Realization

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Valuable advice, Valuable lesson, Workings, World

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Die, Nothing, Together

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Topics: Changed, Famous, Human Nature, Nothing

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Constant learning, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Large-scale action, Larger, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.

 

Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Civil, Destroy, Importance, Impressed, Invention, Nothing, Notice, Part, Participant, Power, Power of nature, Themselves, Theories

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

 

Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Common, Nothing, Strategic, Strategic planning, Supply, Times, Times of difficulty, War

If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Create, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Yourself

The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing. He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Encouraging, End, Famous, Feelings, Law, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Path, Wonder, Wonderful

Matter is nothing except the resistance it offers me, yet matter is never without an essential form of its own.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Topics: Essential, Famous, Matters, Nothing

Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Topics: Determination, Famous, Inspirational, Negative, Nothing, Reason, Resolving, Understanding

The Christian imagination bas produced nothing but an insipid legend.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Topics: Christian, Imagination, Insipid legend, Nothing, Produced

There is nothing which is not an intermediate state between being and nothing.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Topics: Famous, Nothing, State

There are not a few who are called awake by the summons of the voice, whereupon they are at once set apart from the others, feeling themselves confronted with a problem about which the others know nothing

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Comfort, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Problem, Right to voice

As a child, I felt myself to be alone and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Child, Childhood, Lesson, Little Things, Nothing, Part, Participation, Still, Stillness

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Author: Michael Jackson
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope—nothing of man

Author: Calvin Coolidge
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Ground, Hope, Inspirational, Learning, Life, Looking, Meaningful, Nothing, Periods, Possible, Solid, Things, Thinking

There is nothing, nothing in heaven, or in nature or in mind or anywhere else which does not equally contain both immediacy and mediation.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Topics: Famous, Heaven, Inspirational, Minds, Nature, Nothing

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Memory, Nothing

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mind, Nothing

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Topics: Famous, History, Learn, Life, Man, Nothing, Teach

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Author: Calvin Coolidge
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Persistence, Place, World

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done

Author: C. S. Lewis
Topics: Everyday, God, Lesson, Nothing

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours

Author: C. S. Lewis
Topics: Famous, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Realization, Really, Reason

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

Author: C. S. Lewis
Topics: Imaginary, Interest, Nothing, Realizing, Really

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Author: Buddha
Topics: Matter, Nothing, Read, Really, Reason, Sense, Sense of admiration

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Author: George Eliot
Topics: Famous, Good, Nothing

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Author: Maya Angelou
Topics: Famous, Light, Meaningful, Nothing

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Author: Maya Angelou
Topics: Alone, Enough, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

If art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Author: George Eliot
Topics: Famous, Nothing

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.

Author: Buddha
Topics: Heaven, Nothing, Precious, Workings, World

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

Author: Buddha
Topics: Harmful, Health, Nothing, Thoughts

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind

Author: Buddha
Topics: Learning, Mind, Nothing, Obedient, Undisciplined

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance

Author: Buddha
Topics: Mindful, Mindset, Nothing

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

 

Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Religious

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Famous, God, Long, Man, Meaningful, Nothing, Something

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Famous, God, Meaningful, Nothing

One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way

Author: Bruce Lee
Topics: Force, Harmony, Inner Strength, Natural, Nothing, Self-Important

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped

Author: Bruce Lee
Topics: Nothing, Soft

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Author: Mark Twain
Topics: Famous, Habits, Meaningful, Nothing, Reforming

I couldn’t bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn’t think about nothing else.

Author: Mark Twain
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Author: Bruce Lee
Topics: Nothing, Themselves, Things

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Topics: Famous, Motivational, Nothing, Ventured

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

Author: George Washington
Topics: Famous, Ingratitude, Inspirational, Nothing, Sin, Soul

Don’t Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

Author: Bob Dylan
Topics: Famous, Life, Nothing, Truly, Truth

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Author: Marianne Williamson
Topics: Famous, Fear, Limits, Meaningful, Nothing

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

Author: George Washington
Topics: Enemy, Famous, Inspirational, Meet, Nothing, Peace, Produced

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

Author: George W. Bush
Topics: Child, Famous, Give, Nothing, Parents, Tough love, Unconditional Love, Wrong

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be

Author: Bob Dylan
Topics: Famous, Life, Livingthing, Nothing, Rules to live by

When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to loose.

Author: Bob Dylan
Topics: Famous, Lesson, Life, Lose, Nothing

It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you

Author: Ayrton Senna
Topics: Dream, Mind, Minded, Nothing, Touches, Try

Nothing can separate me from the love of God

Author: Ayrton Senna
Topics: Ability, Famous, Feelings, God, Life, Love, Meaningful, Nothing, Separate

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing

Author: Ayrton Senna
Topics: Compromise, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

Author: Ayn Rand
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Learn, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me – not even you…Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

Author: Ayn Rand
Topics: Ability, Famous, Life, Love, Matter, Meaningful, Nothing

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Author: Ayn Rand
Topics: Depends, Expect, Freedom, Nothing

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Author: Audrey Hepburn
Topics: Famous, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Question, Workings, World

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there’s nothing more to live for

Author: Audrey Hepburn
Topics: Living, Living Fully, Nothing, Stop, Waiting

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me

Author: Audre Lorde
Topics: Ability, Famous, Feelings, Life, Nothing

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing

Author: Audre Lorde
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Nothing, Powerful mindset, Powerful motivation

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Topics: Disturbing, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

The American Dream is nothing but a capitalist fairy tale.

Author: George Carlin
Topics: Fairy tale, Famous, Nothing

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing

Author: Arthur Ashe
Topics: Dad, Family, Famous, Feeling good, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.

Author: George Carlin
Topics: Changed, Dollar, Famous, Nothing

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless… We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities

Author: Arthur Ashe
Topics: Character, Education, Famous, Feelings, Life, Look, Meaningful, Nothing, Poverty, Women, Wonder

Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don’t get it out there, if people don’t know about it, you have nothing.

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Great, Life, Meaningful, Movies, Nothing, Supermarket, World

Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Nothing, Proud, Today

Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.

Author: Mae West
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Time

Goodness had nothing to do with it.

Author: Mae West
Topics: Famous, Goodness, Meaningful, Nothing

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. He came close to him and put his hand upon his shoulder. ‘You are quite right to do that,’ he murmured. ‘Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul

Author: Oscar Wilde
Topics: Face, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Nothing, Sense, Soul

Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able to do

Author: Oscar Wilde
Topics: Everything, Famous, Feelings, Good, Meaningful, Nothing, Store

Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Decide, Decision, Decisions, Nothing

Nothing, nothing, nothing is better than sex, it is what God created us to do

Author: Novak Djokovic
Topics: Famous, God, God willing, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Sexuality

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it’s a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

Author: Novak Djokovic
Topics: Championship, Fight, Hard, Hard Part, Mental Health, Nothing, Question, Strong determination

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life,which in the end we leave,only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

Author: Omar Khayyam
Topics: Leave, Nothing, Truth

God, you have paved our path
with a thousand invisible stumbling stones
and you have said: woe betide those that stumble!
You see all and you know all. Nothing happens without
your consent, so how can you hold us responsible for
our failures? Can you blame me
that I object to this?

Author: Omar Khayyam
Topics: God, Nothing, Path, Responsible, Stumbled

For in and out, above, about, below, ‘Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play’d in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

Author: Omar Khayyam
Topics: Candle, Magic, Nothing, Phantom, Shadow

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Famous, Great, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Value

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Success

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Topics: Famous, Important, Meaningful, Nothing

The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Author: Ice Cube
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Nothing, Situation

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.

Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Nothing

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.

Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Risks

Ain’t nobody gave us nothing. I just got my own

Author: Nipsey Hussle
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nobody, Nothing

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Author: Aristotle
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nature, Nothing, Useful

Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first.

Author: Antoni Gaudi
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Invented, Life, Nature, Nothing

In Chicago, a lot of people don’t really got nothing to live for. Everybody can’t ball. Everybody can’t rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There’s nothing to do but the streets.

Author: Lil Durk
Topics: Chicago, Famous, Live, Meaningless, Nothing, People, Rap

There is nothing more beautiful than a woman who is comfortable in her own skin.

Author: Anton Chekhov
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Own Skin, Women

There is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action.

Author: Anton Chekhov
Topics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Life, Nothing, Terrible

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Author: Anton Chekhov
Topics: Course, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, World

I think a lot, but I don’t say much

Author: Anne Frank
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Lot, Nothing, Think

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

Author: Leonard Cohen
Topics: Famous, Happen, Nothing

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