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Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu 
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
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To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
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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
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that.
But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering
your own best ways to travel with that pain
will lead you to the joy that you long to have.
They are your paths, your ways and while my experience
and the experiences of others may inspire you,
ultimately it will be the choices you discover
and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy
in the midst of your challenges.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
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)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
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I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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