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May you find great value in these Mediocre quotes and sayings.
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Related topics: Wisdom Positive
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
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
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
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
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
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