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Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
I hope we shall crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson (from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816)
Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
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
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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