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Welcome to these Disgrace Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative
of the dignity of my high vocation,
and its many responsibilities.
Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way
to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
- Mother Teresa
How does it become a man to behave
towards the American government today?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Happiness is when
what you think,
what you say,
and what you do
are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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