Demonstrates Quotes

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

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Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands
is to demonstrate here that our democratic system
is worthy of emulation.
- Jimmy Carter

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

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau

The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes

Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

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

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

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

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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