I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank 
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Who would ever think that so much went on
in the soul of a young girl?
- Anne Frank
And finally I twist my heart round again,
so that the bad is on the outside
and the good is on the inside,
and keep on trying to find a way of becoming
what I would so like to be, and could be,
if there weren't any other people living in the world.
- Anne Frank
If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
I live in a crazy time.
- Anne Frank
Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- the movie The Godfather, Part II
Keep Searching for the Rabbit-Hole with the Magical White Rabbit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
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
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact.
If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
- Jewel
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin.
If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
They don't call them DEADlines for nothing - keep breathing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Keep silence for the most part,
and speak only when you must,
and then briefly.
- Epictetus
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
To keep your thinking young, stay curious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.
- Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany)
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