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“Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defense against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding around the globe to forge greater cooperation, to expand new markets, to free people from fear and want. And no one is better positioned to take advantage of those opportunities than America.”

People Want America Remember Opportunity Understanding Greater Advantage Threat Defense Enormous Defined Cooperation Globes

Author:Barack Obama

“Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.”

Writing Remember Lines Greater Style Periods Judgment Weight Harmony Musical Proof Scripture Prose Melody Verses

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.”

Art Remember Found Secret Greater Painting Quiet Aim Excellence Various Chosen Fewer Eloquence Singleness

Book:Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

Source: Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

“Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness.”

Trying Kind Matter Remember Happiness Joy Greater Friends No Matter What All Kinds Bliss Good Thoughts

Author:Robert Adams

“There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.”

Pain Past Remember Grief Greater Past Happiness

Book:Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition

Source: Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition

“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Thinking Men Needs Done Remember Forget Pleasure Greater Equal Profit Careful Occasions One Man Be Careful Favour Offence Displeasure Slighted

Book:Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

Source: Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

“But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.”

Way May Children Sometimes Stories Remember Destiny Greater Tears Wind Fortune Soil Bad Fortune

Author:Mary E. Pearson

“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.”

Men Humans Littles Remember Lying Passion Cities Greater Century Battle Prove Daughter Weight Property Human Life Temporary Burned Decorum

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.”

Way Doe Remember Greater

Book:The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.”

Past Remember Greater Gains Importance Fervor Remembering The Past

Book:Zeno's Conscience

Source: Zeno's Conscience

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.”

Men Should Stills I Can Remember Three Worry Greater Mines Difficulty Mathematics Fingers Pointing

Author:Albert Einstein

“As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.”

Feels Should Years Firsts Remember Joy Greater Birth Holiday Celebration

Author:Eric D. Huntsman

“We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility.”

Ifs Thinking Giving May Matter Remember Certain Realizing Poor Lord Greater Humility Grateful Profit Genuine Merit Receiving Be Grateful Majesty

Author:Teresa of Avila