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Welcome to these Grandfather Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Know that you are loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
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You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that you are special, and unique in all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
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
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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