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Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
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