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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Thing.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
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
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- 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
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
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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)
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
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
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 only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
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 only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
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.
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
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
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
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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