Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame."
Leaving quotes
Leaving
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George Washington Carver
Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it."
Frida Kahlo
Painter
"I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves."
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor."
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"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free."
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"As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil."
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"If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence."
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"If you leave you leaving the best, so you would have to settle for less."
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"I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind."
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"Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all."
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"The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind."
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"If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at."
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"There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done."
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"I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?"
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"Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price."
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"The energy of life entering and leaving your body flows evenly throughout the universe. With that current, the mind of the cosmos communicates with all things."
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"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."
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"Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise."
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"Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind."
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"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."
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"I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."
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"There's a difference between losing your salvation and leaving your salvation. If you lose something, you don't know where to find it. You can't lose your salvation because you always know where to find it; you can only leave it."
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"By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself."
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"I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven."
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