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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained.
- Marie Curie
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
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