The quote library
Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
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“The man who is incapable of making a mistake is incapable of anything. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. — Edward J. Phelps”
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“The meaning of the Bible must be known and understood if it is to make a difference in our lives. — Ronald Reagan”
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“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. — Ferdinand Foch”
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“The only people who make no mistakes are dead people. I saw a man last week who had not made a mistake for four thousand years. He was a mummy in the Egyptian department of the British Museum. — H. L. Wayland”
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“The problem is not to start writing, but to keep writing and renewing inspiration. — Robert McKee”
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“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882), Essays: Second Series. Nominalist and Realist”
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. — Mark Twain”
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“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. — John F. Kennedy”
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“The trouble with most people is they quit before they start. — Thomas Edison”
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“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. — Socrates”
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“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. — Elbert Hubbard”
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“The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best. When you can see crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying. — Joe Kogel”
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“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Charles F. Kettering”
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“There are no gains without pains. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened? — Ann Landers”
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“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. — Francis Bacon”
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“There is no security in this life, only opportunity. — Douglas MacArthur”
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“There’s something ultimately unfulfilling about a promise of a better you that doesn’t involve pain and sacrifice. — Jeff Goins”
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“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie”
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“To be successful, you need to set yourself on fire. — Thomas Umstattd”
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“To change, you have to stop doing what you know how to do—and start doing something you don’t know how to do. — Ray Considine”
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“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. — Maurice Scitter”
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“Trouble starts when we think too big. — Jane Anne Staw”
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“Until you’ve been in the battle, don’t tell me what the war is all about. — Dennis Hensley”
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“Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke”
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“Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. — Dale Carnegie”
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“We can enrich ourselves, thereby enhancing our ability to continue to enrich others. We might as well get good at it. — Alan Weiss”
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“We don’t have time for everything. — Thomas Harris”
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“We don’t know who we are until we can see what we can do. — Martha Grimes”
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“We have to knock on a lot of wrong doors to find the right one. — Terry Burns”
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“We must not sit still and look for miracles. — John Eliot”
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“Well begun is half done. — Aristotle”
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“What costs little is valued less. — Miguel de Cervantes”
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“What we have to learn to do is lean into the things that hold us back, to move through the pain and push forward. — Jeff Goins”
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“What you did years ago doesn’t matter. What matters is what you do today. — Jeff Goins”
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“When good men die, their goodness does not perish. — Euripedes”
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“When it is dark enough, men see the stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
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