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May you find great value in these Ant quotes and sayings.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Wisdom
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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