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May you find great value in these Well quotes and sayings.
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Values Inspirational
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
It is better to do one's own duty,
however defective it may be,
than to follow the duty of another,
however well one may perform it.
He who does his duty as
his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Let today be a day to trust your own inner guidance,
a day to have faith that your steps are carrying you
in the direction you desire,
a day to keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
You are defined by your habits - choose well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no point at which you can say,
"Well, I'm successful now.
I might as well take a nap."
- Carrie Fisher
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