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John Paul Jones Quotes

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We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones

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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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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


 

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

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

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind

Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

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

I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung

He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu

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

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire

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

It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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