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Dare to be naive. ...
by Buckminster Fuller

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair

Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hope we shall crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson (from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816)

I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

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

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

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

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

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

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

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