Guarantees quotes
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"Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking."
"What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there. So that's the reason why you keep asking the question: you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life."
"All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy."
"Impatience for victory guarantees defeat"
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
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"The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth."
"I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine."
"It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller."
"For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all the others. Only love can attain and preserve the good of all. Any claim to build the security of all on force is a manifest imposture."
"The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest."
"A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness."
"Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up."
"If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated."
"The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life."
"Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust."
"Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue."
"Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness"
"Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority."
"Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it."
"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that."
"If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!"
"Size is no guarantee of power."
"Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money."
"To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace."
"...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence."
