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Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
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Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
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
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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