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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Robert M. Hutchins.
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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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
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert H. Schuller
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
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