George Washington Quotes

Merit rarely goes unrewarded.

George Washington

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• Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Team
  • Here
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• Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Life
  • Good
  • Life is

• The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • True
  • Christian
  • Cutting

• Love, too, has to be learned.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Learned

• You cannot treat with all the world at once.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Treat

• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Problem
  • Advice
  • Judgment

• Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.

  

  William Blake
  • Way
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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Brown

• Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

  

  Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Singing
  • Journey
  • Destination

• People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Lose
  • Prove
  • Wars

• We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

  

  William James
  • Love
  • Merit
  • Redeemer

• Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Leader
  • Century
  • Middle

• Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Important
  • Enough
  • Stress

• Merit rarely goes unrewarded.

  

  George Washington
  • Merit
  • Unrewarded