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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
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To be or not to be is not
a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be.
- Golda Meir
All compromise is based on give and take,
but there can be no give and take on fundamentals.
Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender.
For it is all give and no take.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Discourage litigation.
Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
As a peacemaker the lawyer has
superior opportunity of being a good man.
There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln
A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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