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Welcome to these Measurement Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
Related topics: Wisdom Science
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
"Pride" is such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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