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Motivational Mediocre Quotes

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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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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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