Almost Quotes

The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

An educated person is one who has learned that information
almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false,
misleading, fictitious, mendacious -
just dead wrong.
- Russell Baker

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle.
It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.
- Bruce Barton

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
- Jessamyn West

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place
the world is when one is playing golf.
- Robert Wilson Lynd

Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country
16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket.
A lot has happened since then.
- Antonio Banderas

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible,
he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible,
he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

I have an almost religious zeal...
not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me,
the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature,
linking up.
- Dan Millman

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

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds
the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
- Doug Collins

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as
long as I am President that is what it will remain.
They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
- Harry S. Truman

Success in almost any field depends more on energy
and drive than it does on intelligence.
This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
- Sloan Wilson

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design,
manufacturing...
layout, processes, and procedures.
- Tom Peters

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain
about what he wants and sets out to get it,
no holds barred.
Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
- Donald Trump

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.
If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
- Bill Veeck

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has,
it may be inadvisable to draw it out...
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- A. E. Housman

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one,
no less wise, to balance it.
- George Santayana

Poetry should...
should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts,
and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible
for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
- Ronald Reagan

The idea of bringing young people up to Literature
is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost
as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
- James Payn

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West.
We have no relationship with East West.
We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.
- Andrew Eldritch

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler,
but I couldn't afford it.
It was a jewel.
- Parker Stevenson

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest,
yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
- Robert Falcon Scott

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
- Anatoly Chubais

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are
the early versions of my novels.
- Nicholas Mosley

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience
is almost certainly a bore.
- Bernard Cornwell

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil.
Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of
your island country and our neighborhood.
- Michael Jeffery

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always
illuminates a miserable world.
- Rene Magritte

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances
almost always have an unpleasant smell.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
- Donella Meadows

It touches on drug use.
I got caught up in that for almost two years.
- Elliott Smith

What is going on in America is extreme.
The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid.
And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
- Billie Joe Armstrong

The first 20 stories written about a public figure
set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
- Charles W. Colson

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi,
was 1964.
I graduated from high school in 1965.
So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
- Danny Glover

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work -
which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself.
I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
- Alton Brown

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.
- Sean Lennon

This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old,
I could be getting my first beauty campaign.
- Teri Hatcher

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost
wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse

There's almost always a point in a book where something
happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
- Jonathan Carroll

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost
impossible for politicians to win anything.
In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
- Rand Paul

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected
and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself -
as a vocation and an elevation almost.
- Seamus Heaney

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy,
except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
- Edward Gibbon

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people
think enough of me that they made me commissioner.
And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said,
'deja vu all over again.'
- Bobby Hull

A chair is a very difficult object.
A skyscraper is almost easier.
That is why Chippendale is famous.
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't think I would have been a good mother.
Being a parent brings immense responsibility.
It's a Herculean task.
It would be almost too much for me.
- Julie Christie

And I sense it was a rather constructed,
almost half narrative fiction film in some ways.
A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those
things in there that I knew to be strong.
- Terry Zwigoff

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
- Dan Rather

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world
from earlier centuries is attributable to science,
which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- Bertrand Russell

An author who speaks about their own books is almost
as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Almost 70 percent of U.S.
ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the
Illinois waterway system.
- Jerry Costello

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of:
almost every student entering the university believes,
or says he believes, that truth is relative.
- Allan Bloom

Really, I didn't like Alaska.
It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
- John Hawkes

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail:
the color a room is painted,
the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
- Donna Tartt

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