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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Denis Waitley

Courage, Working, Problems

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

Life, Time, Special

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi

Moral, Effort, Hold

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Mother

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Real, Eyes, Discovery

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Between, Cause, Weakness

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Down, Else

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Happiness, Lost, Mean

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato

Themselves, Content, Appear

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

Greatest, Lost, Christian

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

Soul, Earth, Bird

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Eyes, Discovery, Voyage

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Down, Else

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
Douglas Horton

Yourself, Revenge, Two

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot

Silence, After, Write

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Long, Nothing

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

Positive, Truth, Art

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Real, Eyes, Discovery

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden

Alone, Yourself, Help

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
George W. Bush

Peace, Important, Friends

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

Art, Wisdom, Wise

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine

Life, Pain, Action

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine

Lord, Found, Within

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide

Truth, Doubt, Find

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Edward Dahlberg

Greatest, Soul, Ambition

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
Charles Stanley

Time, Jesus, Word

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Richard von Weizsaecker

Forget, Makes, Secret

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty

Men, Able, Risk

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler

Power, Art, Experience

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve Martin

Success, Learning, Comedy

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