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Wisdom of the AgesIn your quest for wisdom one of the best beginnings is with the wisdom of the ages. Seek out the wisdom of others. There are been many wise men and women throughout the ages and borrowing their wisdom is a great first step in creating your own. Make a list of favorite quotes and update it regularly. Here are a few to get you started. A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. - Confucius A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Confucius A ship in the harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd All of my teachings can be put in a single sentence. ‘Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine.’ – The Buddha Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese proverb Confusion is a symptom of learning. - Doug Cardell Count your blessings. - Og Mandino Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden Do or do not; there is no try. - Yoda Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets. - Jesus Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Harold Whitman Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than your self. - William Faulkner |
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Earthquakes are caused by the conflict between the resistance to change and its inevitability. - Doug Cardell Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers Failure is just another step towards success. - Maria T. Irigoyen Fear and greed are the true root of all evil. - Doug Cardell Feel the fear and do it anyway. - Susan Jeffers Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times...but only if one remembers to turn on the light! - Albus Dumbledore Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. - Burton Hills Happiness is not determined by what happens to you in life but how you react to what happens to you in life. - Doug Cardell I think; therefore, I am. - Rene Decartes If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. - Henry David Thoreau If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that one can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. - Henry Ford If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. - Gail Sheehy If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. If you don't know where you're going, you might end up somewhere else. - Yogi Berra If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right. - Henry Ford If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein In manners of style, swim with the current; in manners of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Elliot It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - Albus Dumbledore It's as simple as ABC: you can Achieve if you Believe what you Conceive. - paraphrasing Napoleon Hill Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. - Helen Keller Know thyself. - Socrates Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. - Helen Keller Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.. - Mahatma Gandhi Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers Live life to the fullest. - Robert Louis Stevenson Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher Love your enemies. - Jesus Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be. - Abraham Lincoln Most people spend their time scratching for harvest. Spend your time planting and the harvest will take care of itself. - Doug Cardell No one can go back and make a brand new start; anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. - Benjamin Disraeli Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. - Henry Ford Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. - Albert Einstein Right now, you are living and dying; you decide how to look at it. - Doug Cardell So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. - Jesus Success is a journey not a destination. - Ben Sweetland Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up. - Mark Twain The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. - Elbert Hubbard The harder you fall the higher you bounce. - Horace The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we might become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. - John Milton The most effective way to lead, to teach, to parent, to influence others is by example. - Doug Cardell The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin Roosevelt The purpose of life is growth. - Doug Cardell The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates There is a fate worse than death, failing to live. - Doug Cardell They can because they think they can. - Virgil Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. - Art Linkletter. This above all: To thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare Those who bring sunshine into the live of others, cannot keep it from themselves. - James M. Barrie Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allen Poe To love what you do and feel it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun! - Katherine Graham Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost We are what we repeatedly do. - Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we see them with our eyes wide open. - Jawaharlal Nehru What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir John Lubbock What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail. - Robert Schuller What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can have everything you want in life if you'll just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar You can never be happy if the things you cherish are things. - Doug Cardell You know you exist, everything else is faith. - Doug Cardell You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. - Mahatma Gandhi Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. - Lao-tzu |
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