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No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur

If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb

When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Have NO EXPECTATIONS.
Life will not meet your expectations.
Choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

No one was ever named HERO for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
he fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

No more walls.
- Anais Nin

When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every day is a day to take action.
Whatever your choices, take action on those choices.
Taking no action is equally a choice,
just not a choice made from awareness.
Make conscious choices,
and take action on those choices - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

I accept everything that ever has been,
with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengeance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha

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