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Quotes about Nothing


To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

John Bach

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Zen Proverb

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Trammell Crow

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

X. Doudan

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love—any love— reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Cesare Pavese

I wasn't affected by inflation—I had nothing to inflate.

Gerald Barzan

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

Blaise Plato

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]

Decimus Magnus Ausonius

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,-- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

Thomas Gibbons

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]

Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]

Jean Baptiste Racine

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.

Samuel Johnson

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

John Lennon

Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, from the Absolute.

Tao Saying

Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21].

Bible

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

John F Kennedy

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing and then marry him.

Satya Sai Cher

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.

Antoine De Saint-exupery

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

Francis Bacon

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