About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Related topics: Values
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility
in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
Every fact is related on one side to sensation,
and, on the other, to morals.
The game of thought is, on the appearance
of one of these two sides,
to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
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
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Know that you are special, and unique in all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
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
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Know that you are loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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