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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
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No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
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There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
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
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
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
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
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)
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
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
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- 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
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
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