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May you find great value in these Loveliness quotes and sayings.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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