Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home,
and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
There are two kinds of stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
I want to do it because I want to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must pay for everything.
They do get more glory than men for comparable feats,
but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
- Amelia Earhart
The woman who can create her own job
is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
- Amelia Earhart
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning
when first I considered going.
Once faced and settled there really wasn't
any good reason to refer to it.
- Amelia Earhart
Flying might not be all plain sailing,
but the fun of it is worth the price.
- Amelia Earhart
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy 
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion.
The several sects perform the office of a Censor -
over each other.
- Thomas Jefferson
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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