Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully
to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival,
liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness
is a planet whose resources are devoted
to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
- Jimmy Carter
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always the danger that we may
just do the work for the sake of the work.
This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -
that we do it to God, to Christ,
and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
- Mother Teresa
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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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
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)
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Know that love has no limits.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know that you do not need the approval of others.
You are unique and magnificent. Stand tall, stand proud.
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I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
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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
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
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Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
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We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know that you are loved.
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You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
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Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
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The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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