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Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
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
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
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
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
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
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
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
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
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