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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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 have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil,
when one feels tranquil,
one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them,
one is free of fear.
- The Buddha
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A sloth lives a pretty good life, s-l-o-w-l-y.
Maybe we have something to learn from him.
Some days, being sloth-like may be just what you need
to avoid being consumed by urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
However carefully we plan our future,
we are always climbing the steps to nowhere.
While it is important to our happiness
that we have an intent for our lives,
it is equally crucial to accept in advance
that we truly have no idea how our lives will turn out -
and that is good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme.
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful.
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
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