Berton Braley Quotes

The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

Berton Braley

• Rivers
• Don't Worry
• Rhymed

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• As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Energy

• I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • House
  • City
  • River

• A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Moon
  • Tears
  • Rivers

• I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Rivers

• The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Path
  • Resistance

• The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Habit
  • Resistance

• Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Dream
  • Ambition
  • River

• The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Tears
  • River

• Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Boundaries
  • Rivers

• I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Romantic

• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

  

  Sophocles
  • Resistance
  • Rivers
  • Branches

• Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.

  

  Confucius
  • Failing
  • Acknowledge
  • Don't Worry

• Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Wish
  • Move
  • Rivers

• The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

  

  William Whipple
  • Water
  • Abundance
  • Rivers

• I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • Boat
  • Rivers
  • Tennessee

• Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Learn
  • Rivers
  • Chasms

• I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.

  

  Barbara Lewis
  • Words
  • Sky
  • Rivers

• the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

  

  Anaximenes of Miletus
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Wind

• When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm retired, man. I'm loving it. Just being a bum. I kind of like it.

  

  Kirby Puckett
  • Man
  • Retired
  • Bum

• All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Men
  • Broken
  • Liberty

• Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Hate Me
  • Beat Me
  • Break Me

• I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

  

  Bob Hicok
  • Sky
  • Falling
  • Knees

• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  

  Berton Braley
  • Rivers
  • Don't Worry
  • Rhymed