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May you find great value in these Cricket quotes and sayings.
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
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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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- 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
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
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
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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