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Welcome to these Deliberately Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.
It is seeing things clearly,
and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
The people themselves, and not their servants,
can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
- Abraham Lincoln
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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