Quotes of Adlai Stevenson

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It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

- Adlai Stevenson

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“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

“ Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel