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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Related topics: Wisdom
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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