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Welcome to these East Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
Related topics: Wisdom Buddhist Perception Belief
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West
provided it is not based on brute force.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One strength of the communist system of the East
is that it has some of the character of a religion
and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- Albert Einstein
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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.
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
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
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
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
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
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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