Making Quotes

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney

It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)

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

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
- Arnold H. Glasow

A woman should be home with the children,
building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
- Mel Gibson

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better
and also trying to be better yourself.
- Dale Earnhardt

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein
of water flowing hidden underground,
secretly making the ground green.
- Thomas Carlyle

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
- Roy E. Disney

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master,
a mistress, and two slaves, making in all,
two.
- Ambrose Bierce

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was
not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to
have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
- Gore Vidal

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look
like your passport photo.
- Al Gore

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection,
affinities, integration, love.
- Louis Kahn

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
- Henri Matisse

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study
of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
- Clyde Tombaugh

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
- Elizabeth Taylor

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal,
and with them men.
- Theodor Adorno

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes.
They're wrong.
With computers you make mistakes faster.
- Adam Osborne

Color in certain places has the great value of making
the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
- Antonio Gaudi

Disneyland is a work of love.
We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
- Walt Disney

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy,
that's a great reward.
- Genevieve Gorder

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates
some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Ambrose Bierce

If I'm making a movie and get hungry,
I call time-out and eat some crackers.
- Carol Alt

A father is always making his baby into a little woman.
And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
- Enid Bagnold

If your home is not a place where you can truly
kick-back and be yourself - both physically and emotionally -
consider making some changes in your way-of-life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
- John Walters

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition
of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
- Scott Adams

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting
and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants
to get to work and deal with them.
- Paul Hawken

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
- Howard Nemerov

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background,
and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
- A. C. Benson

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Peter Drucker

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings,
and making music with them.
- Dennis Gabor

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things
no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving
America a new sense of purpose.
- Andy Rooney

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
- Pete Rose

Every game ever invented by mankind,
is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
- John Ciardi

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs,
making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
- Jose Saramago

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver.
For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what
virtue and power may lie in medicines.
- Paracelsus

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
- Yahoo Serious

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable.
Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
- Dieter Rams

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
- Carrot Top

It's a mental fake-out to myself.
I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the
material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
- Eric Bogosian

So fear helps me from making mistakes,
but I make lot of mistakes.
- Steve Irwin

If one uses music that one does not really love,
then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
- Lukas Foss

Presidents do not go into war lightly.
It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions,
and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that
we can be specific about.
- Arthur Hertzberg

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
- Imran Khan

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