Filial Quotes

If the Great Way perishes, there will be morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise, great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another,
there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu

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Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

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.

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

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

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

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