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There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
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I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
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Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho
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 seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet
as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care,
kindness and understanding you can muster,
and do with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
The River of Life flows eternally,
with infinite strength,
but with no convictions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha
Every day is a day to take action.
Whatever your choices, take action on those choices.
Taking no action is equally a choice,
just not a choice made from awareness.
Make conscious choices,
and take action on those choices - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
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