Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May you find great value in these Fruitless quotes and sayings.
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
- Osho
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Thank you for visiting: Wise Quotes about Fruitless.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.