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Never mind what others do;
by William J. H. Boetcker

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

Related topics: Values Motivational

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

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

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

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

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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