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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
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Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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