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Evan Esar Quotes

I hope you find these Evan Esar Quotes inspiring and motivational.

You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar

Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)


 

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi

You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill


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