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There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Related topics: Inspirational
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The grand aim of all science is to cover
the greatest number of empirical facts
by logical deduction from
the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
In most communities it is illegal
to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly.
Should it not be considered serious international misconduct
to manufacture a general war scare
in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be a beneficial presence in the world,
cultivate a conscious awareness of your unity with Spirit.
Expect good in your own life.
Desire good for all others as well.
See and affirm abundant blessings of peace,
health, and plenty for everyone.
Align your thoughts with peace and happiness,
and realize that these qualities are your true nature.
- Kathy Juline
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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