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In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
There are two kinds of stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.
- Amelia Earhart
I want to do it because I want to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home,
and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning
when first I considered going.
Once faced and settled there really wasn't
any good reason to refer to it.
- Amelia Earhart
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
The woman who can create her own job
is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
- Amelia Earhart
Flying might not be all plain sailing,
but the fun of it is worth the price.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must pay for everything.
They do get more glory than men for comparable feats,
but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
- Amelia Earhart
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
Forgiving others is a gift to yourself,
given not because the other deserves pardon,
but because you deserve the serenity and joy
that comes from releasing resentment and anger,
and from embracing universal forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Our opportunity is to love ourselves exactly as we are -
with all our joys and sufferings.
To be grateful for everything.
To forgive ourselves for our doubts of our own worthiness -
for we have no need to be anything other than what we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
There is a higher court than courts of justice
and that is the court of conscience.
It supersedes all other courts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
"Pride" is such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
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