Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
NORM MACDONALD
NORM MACDONALD
Norm MacDonald on activity
Norm MacDonald73 quotes“Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.”
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I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald
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Nora FatehiNora Fatehi It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
Sam HarrisSam Harris If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
Rick WarrenRick Warren Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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