Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
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A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
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
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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