Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- commonly but falsely attributed to Dr. Seuss,
this misquote consists of the Bernard Baruch quote,
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
with additional words added anonymously.
Related topics: Values Cute Whimsey
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.
Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Time flies.
- Anonymous
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Every dog has his day.
- Proverb
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.
Jonathan Huie jlh(at)jlhuie(dot)com - About & Disclosure