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Welcome to these Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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