Well Quotes: Inspiring Words for Mindful Living (Page 7)

"Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly"

Ben Bernanke

"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

"On both of my flights, everything went very well"

Sally Ride, Astronaut

"I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely"

Sophocles, Author

"If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too"

Sophocles, Author

"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong"

Sophocles, Author

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself"

Lao Tzu, Author

"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Good men must not obey the laws too well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Order is a great person's need and their true well being"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason"

Voltaire, Writer

"Do well and you will have no need for ancestors"

Voltaire, Writer

"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors"

Voltaire, Writer

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well"

Voltaire, Writer

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The best of seers is he who guesses well"

Euripides, Poet

"In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way"

David Carradine, Actor

"Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film"

David Carradine, Actor

"It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift"

David Carradine, Actor

"No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul"

Victor Hugo, Author

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