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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions,
the mobility and flow of risk capital...
the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital,
and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
- John F. Kennedy
There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Winston Churchill
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- 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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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