Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Related topics: Values Motivational
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
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
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
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