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I hope you find these Isocrates Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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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
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
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