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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Related topics: Values Life Human-Nature Psychology Self-Esteem Self Honor
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
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