Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
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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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- 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
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- 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
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- 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 give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
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
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
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
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
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
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
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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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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