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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
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Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil
and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you
across thousands of miles
and all the years you have lived.
- Helen Keller
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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)
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
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