After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Related topics: Motivational
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil,
when one feels tranquil,
one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them,
one is free of fear.
- The Buddha
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Ambition is pitiless.
Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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