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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.
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Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
No good deed goes unpunished.
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Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
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I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
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Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
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Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
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Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile, 1970
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
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