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May these quotes about Philanthropy inspire and motivate you.
Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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 greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
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
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
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
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
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
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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