Olives Quotes

They can do without architecture
who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
- Henry David Thoreau

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell

To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

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 believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers

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

A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha

Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking

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

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

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