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I hope you find these Emmet Fox Quotes inspiring and motivational.
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
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
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
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
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
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