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Welcome to these Polite Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
Politeness is organized indifference.
- Paul Valery
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor,
it covers the natural want of it,
and ends by rendering habitual a substitute
nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so,
a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
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
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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