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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
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No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
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
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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