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Welcome to these Swindling Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I sincerely believe that banking establishments
are more dangerous than standing armies,
and that the principle of spending money
to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,
is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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 thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
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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
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Know that you do not need the approval of others.
You are unique and magnificent. Stand tall, stand proud.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
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
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know that you are special, and unique in all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- 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
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- 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
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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