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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
God is Within You!
You yourself are the creator.
If you find that place within you
from which you brought this thing about,
you will be able to live with it and affirm it,
perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
- Joseph Campbell
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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