Randy Travis Quotes

It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis

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

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

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

Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus

Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung

I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha

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

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

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

About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson

It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene

Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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