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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell
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I believe in everything until it's disproved.
So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons.
It all exists, even if it's in your mind.
Who's to say that dreams and nightmares
aren't as real as the here and now?
- John Lennon
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
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