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Wise Quotes about Somebody

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs

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A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West

Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who you're with most in life is yourself
and if you don't like yourself,
you're always with somebody you don't like.
- Marc S. Lewis

Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer

Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho

We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel

Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)

The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White

One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu

Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus

Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus

A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill

Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines

Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

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