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Lack of culture means what it has always meant:
ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
The source of most worry is a lack of acceptance
of the uncertainties of the future.
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
A mentality of scarcity - of lack -
is the natural consequence of
viewing the world through eyes of fear.
In contrast, when the world is viewed
through eyes of love,
the future becomes unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it.
- John B. Putnam Jr.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible
in bright moments as well as in trouble,
we cannot fully respond to its consolations
because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
- Helen Keller
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Mark Twain
After all, science is essentially international,
and it is only through lack of the historical sense
that national qualities have been attributed to it.
- Marie Curie
Our growing softness,
our increasing lack of physical fitness,
is a menace to our security.
- John F. Kennedy
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
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