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He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
Related topics: Motivational
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Property is intended to serve life,
and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,
it has no personal being.
It is part of the earth man walks on.
It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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