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Oak Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Oak Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer

Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

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

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

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

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie