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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
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The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm
that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts
and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results.
- Carl Jung
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
We fear the unknown,
perhaps more than we fear anything else,
and yet we are, at heart, adventurers.
We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion.
Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown,
but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash
that we must know in our hearts
that our adventure is no more than a child's game.
Perhaps we hope that the unknown
is like the darkness of a cave
and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle
can illuminate the entire cave.
Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer
is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung
It stands to the everlasting credit of science
that by acting on the human mind
it has overcome man's insecurity
before himself and before nature.
- Albert Einstein
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
I live with enthusiasm, and give thanks for my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
Today is life - the only life you are sure of.
Make the most of today. Get interested in something.
Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby.
Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you.
Live today with gusto.
- Dale Carnegie
Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.
- Ralph Archbold
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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