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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Perspective
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
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
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained.
- Marie Curie
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
God is Within You!
You yourself are the creator.
If you find that place within you
from which you brought this thing about,
you will be able to live with it and affirm it,
perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
- Joseph Campbell
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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