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May these quotes about Glisters inspire and motivate you.
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
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Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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