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May these quotes about Polite inspire and motivate you.
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
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When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Politeness is organized indifference.
- Paul Valery
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor,
it covers the natural want of it,
and ends by rendering habitual a substitute
nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so,
a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Thomas Jefferson
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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 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 greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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 way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
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
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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