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There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
There are two kinds of stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.
- Amelia Earhart
I want to do it because I want to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home,
and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must pay for everything.
They do get more glory than men for comparable feats,
but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
- Amelia Earhart
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning
when first I considered going.
Once faced and settled there really wasn't
any good reason to refer to it.
- Amelia Earhart
The woman who can create her own job
is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
- Amelia Earhart
Flying might not be all plain sailing,
but the fun of it is worth the price.
- Amelia Earhart
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
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
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
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