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Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
The grand aim of all science is to cover
the greatest number of empirical facts
by logical deduction from
the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
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
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
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
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- 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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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