Dependent Quotes

The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter

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First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

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

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson

True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau

Work out your own salvation.
Do not depend on others.
- The Buddha

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

My courage does not depend on the weather.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
- The Buddha

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great

The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not on how things are in themselves.
The least of things with a meaning
is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- Wallace Stevens

How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel

In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns

Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer

Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton

We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi

I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln

Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove

Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue,
and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

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.

Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy

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

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin

To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Honor diversity in all seasons.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

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