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I hope you find these St. Francis De Sales Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
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
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
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