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I hope you find these Horace Walpole Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- 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
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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