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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error.
- Thomas Jefferson
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Were it left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers,
or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Set interim goals, preferably daily goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Hero needed - apply now -
open minded independent thinker -
courage preferred.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
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