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May you find great value in these Tenths quotes and sayings.
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
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
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
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