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Welcome to these Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Travel World Observation Attention
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
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