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Mind what people do, not only what they say,
by Terry Goodkind

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

Related topics: Wisdom

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

Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

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

Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
- Terry Goodkind

In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind

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

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

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

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

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

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

The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey

If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers

The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha

You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie