Acorn Quotes

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher

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

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

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

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

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

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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