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179 quotesIf I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Work
Abraham Lincoln
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Commitment
Vince Lombardi
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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
Feminism
Clare Boothe Luce
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If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.
Editing and Editors
Kelvin Mackenzie
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
Experts
Harold Macmillan
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Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.
Prayer
Stan Michalski
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Books - Reading
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
Caution
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
Kindness
Wilson Mizner
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Behavior
Wilson Mizner
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Wages
Ogden Nash
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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
Politicians and Politics
Richard M. Nixon
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Leadership must be established from the top down.
Leaders and Leadership
Sam Nunn
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Taxes and Taxation
Austin O'Malley
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A torchlight procession marching down your throat.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
John Louis O'Sullivan
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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Character
Charles H. Parkhurst
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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Perseverance
Alice Paul
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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Abstinence
William Penn
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Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Death and Dying
Persian Proverb
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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Opportunity
Thomas J. Peters
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
Action
Proverb
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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.
Failure
Proverb
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Advice
Proverb
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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Anger
Thomas De Quincey
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Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
Innocence
Jean Racine
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun