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Seat Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Seat Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Related topics: Values

Fix reason firmly in her seat,
and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one,
he must more approve of the homage of reason,
than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Chief Seattle

Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle

Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

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)

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

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

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus

Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie