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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
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No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- 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)
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
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
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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