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Welcome to these Undefeatable Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The things you fear are undefeatable,
not by their nature, but by your approach.
- Jewel
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)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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)
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
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
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
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
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
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
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
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
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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)
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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