Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Travel World Observation Attention

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin

Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie