Acquire Quotes

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Related topics: Wisdom

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer

There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin

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

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein

The things that have acquired unity are these:
Heaven by unity has become clear;
Earth by unity has become steady;
The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;
The Valley by unity has become full;
All things by unity have come into existence.
- Lao Tzu

Positive thinking has acquired a bad reputation -
which I believe to be totally undeserved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating
in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

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)

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

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

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

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

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

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

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

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

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

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

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

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