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Motivational Unpopular Quotes

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By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis

Related topics: Values

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
- Bono

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono

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


 

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

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

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

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

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

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

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

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

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

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

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene

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

The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell

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

It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer

We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson

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

The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins

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

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

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

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

Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

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

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

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu


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