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

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• Don't Worry
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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

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

  

  Anaximenes of Miletus
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Wind

• Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.

  

  Benjamin F Sullivan
  • Happy
  • Build
  • Discover

• Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

  

  Minna Antrim
  • Between
  • Admiration
  • Rivers

• If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • Sea
  • Rivers

• Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Time
  • Great
  • Forget

• The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Prayer
  • Image
  • Hungry

• 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