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Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Related topics: Wisdom
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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