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For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Inspirational
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities
and the responsibility that we all had.
It wasn't the answer.
It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
- John Lennon
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche
that must have been left behind in the Sixties,
that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
- John Lennon
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation,
a ship going to discover the New World.
And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
- John Lennon
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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