Rivals Quotes

In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin

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Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha

Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

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

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

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

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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