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May you find great value in these quotes by John Paul Jones.
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
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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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
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
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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