These included quotes will inspire you. Included, contained as part of a whole being considered.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging included quotes, included sayings, and included proverbs.
Best Included Quotes
- “To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections” ~ Val Plumwood
- “The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong’.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
- “Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy – a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one’s own emotions and the emotions of others.” ~ Daniel Goleman
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“Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.” ~ Andrew Wilkow
- “Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.” ~ Ron Fournier
- “This is Romney’s biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he’s not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.” ~ Ron Fournier
- “My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.” ~ Pope Francis
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“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago’s parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.” ~ Thomas Frank
- “Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.” ~ Al Franke
- “It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.” ~ Ellen Glasgow
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“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.” ~ Daniel Goleman
- “In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending – including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.” ~ Jennifer Granholm
- “I got approached by SoBe a few months ago about being an ambassador and I learned about the previous ones including Naomi Campbell, so I was instantly interested! Then I tried and really liked it. It’s different and has interesting flavours… we don’t have anything like it in the U.K.” ~ Ellie Goulding
- “To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.” ~ Jennifer Granholm
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“Surveillance technologies now available – including the monitoring of virtually all digital information – have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.” ~ Al Gor
- “Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.” ~ William Hague
- “Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.” ~ Salma Hayek
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“So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.” ~ Jim Hightower
- “I’d never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified – I couldn’t sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.” ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
- “What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people… Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie… Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.” ~ Jim Hightower
- “Populism is not a style, it’s a people’s rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country – including our economy, government, media, and environment.” ~ Jim Hightower
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“It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
- “I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.” ~ Anthony Hopkins
- “There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.” ~ Harriet Van Horne
- “I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.” ~ David Icke
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“I do not knowingly kill any living thing – including insects or rodents – and I thank my food for sustaining me.” ~ Joan Jett
- “Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on ‘Family Circus,’ including ‘David Letterman,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘Roseanne,’ and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it’s name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.” ~ Bil Keane
- “Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.” ~ Allen Klein
- “All behavioral or mood disorders – including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction – have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.” ~ Jeffrey Kluger
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“I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of – including myself.” ~ Mila Kunis
- “If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we’ll tend to be healthier people anyway, we’ll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we’ll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.” ~ Queen Latifah
- “Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.” ~ Zachary Levi
- “Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they’ll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.” ~ Dan Lipinski
- “Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.” ~ Yo-Yo Ma
- “We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.” ~ Wangari Maathai
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“Tom Hanks, who starred in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.” ~ Steven Pinker
- “Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America’s leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.” ~ John Podhoretz
- “Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.” ~ Vladimir Putin
- “Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.” ~ Vladimir Putin
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“We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.” ~ Jean-Pierre Raffarin
- “Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.” ~ Karl Rove
- “Have you considered that if you don’t make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?” ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
- “The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.” ~ Salman Rushdie
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“We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg
- “When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.” ~ Amartya Sen
- “I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.” ~ Ayrton Senna
- “It doesn’t really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we’re not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone – including our enemies.” ~ Martin Sheen
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“Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.” ~ William Shatner
- “American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.” ~ Russell Simmons
- “I’ve gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I’ve gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.” ~ Carly Simon
- “With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it’s a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren’t any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.” ~ Grace Slick
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“Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.” ~ Theodore C. Sorensen
- “Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.” ~ Arlen Specter
- “I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while… if you keep on walking.” ~ Sylvester Stallone
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“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” ~ Wallace Stegner
- “Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.” ~ Helen Fisher
- “It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.” ~ Colm Toibin
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“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.” ~ Dorothy Parker
- “You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don’t find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don’t cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God’s truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.” ~ Brennan Manning
