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Welcome to these Starless Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
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
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
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
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
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
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
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
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
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
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
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
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
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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