Splendid Quotes

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

Related topics: Positive Motivational

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

The second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson

"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill

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

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

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)

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

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

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton

It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

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

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

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

Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel

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

Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood

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

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

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