Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ...
by Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

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

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

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

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

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