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He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
Related topics: Motivational
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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