Nation taxing itself
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” –Winston Churchill
Nature of our genius
“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.” –Shakti Gawain
Never be a cynic
“Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.” –Vanchel Lindsay
Never discourage
“Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” –Plato
Never feel age
“I never feel age…If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.” –Louise Nevelson
Never grow a wishbone
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.” –Clementine Paddleford
Never in certainty
“No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.” –Leon Wieseltier
Never look down on…
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” –Rev. Jesse Jackson
Never stop playing
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” –George Bernard Shaw
Never what I wanted to BUY
“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart’s hope. It was what I wanted to be.” –Lois McMaster Bujold
Nice things said at funerals
“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.” –Garrison Keillor
No cheating
“The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart. Think of other people. Serve other people sincerely. No cheating…” –Dalai Lama
No easy chair
“To the discontented man, no chair is easy.” –Benjamin Franklin
No facts
“There are no facts, only interpretations.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
No great people
“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” –William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
No hopeless situations
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.” –Clare Boothe
No imagination
“The person with no imagination has no wings.” –Muhammad Ali
No one to blame
“Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” –Erica Jong
No one to blame
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” –Erica Jong
No place like home
“Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, / Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” –John Howard Payne
No rules
“Hell, there are no rules here–we’re trying to accomplish something.” –Thomas A. Edison
No secret to success
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” –Colin Powell
No wind
“When there is no wind, row.” –Portuguese Proverb
Nobody need wait
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world.” –Anne Frank
Nobody spots a phony quicker
“Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.” –Mary MacCracken
None but a coward
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.” –Ferdinand Foch
Normal people
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” –Joe Ancis
Normal?
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.” –Jodie Foster
Not everything that counts can be counted
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” –Albert Einstein
Not happiness that makes us grateful
“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” –Albert Clarke
Not here merely to make a living
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.” –Woodrow Wilson
Not imposing
“The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.” –Marcel Proust
Not the critic who counts
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood…and who…if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” –Theodore Roosevelt
Not to talk of being old
“Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.” –Hannah Whitall Smith
Not you that is mortal
“Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.” –Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nowhere but in yourself
“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself -and thus make yourself indispensable.” –Andre Gide
Obstacle illusions
“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” –Grant Frazier
One kind word
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” –Japanese proverb
One person to change your life
“It only takes one person to change your life – you.” –Ruth Casey
One person to change your life
“It only takes one person to change your life – you.” –Ruth Casey
One person with a belief
“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests.” –John Stuart Mill
One really effective weapon
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” –Mark Twain
One single word that gives peace
“Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace.” –Buddha
One step towards God
“When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.” –The Work of the Chariot
One’s own wisdom
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” –Mahatma Gandhi
One-word secret of happiness
“Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It’s growth — mental, financial, you name it.” –Harold S. Geneen
Only do well
“We only do well the things we like doing.” –Colette
Only impossible until…
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.” –Jean-Luc Picard
Only investment that never fails
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” –Henry David Thoreau
Only Light Can Drive Out Darkness
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only love holds this vision
“The mind that sees itself as whole and another as sick unquestionably requires healing. True healing is thus expressed within the mind of the healer and not within the body of the patient. When a healer sees that he or she is not separate from the patient—and only love holds this vision—healing is already accomplished.” –Hugh Prather
Only one thing has to change
“Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.” –Greg Anderson
Only person you can really change
“You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.” –Katharine Hepburn
Only power which man should aspire
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.” –Elie Wiesel
Only the mediocre
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.” –Jean Giraudoux
Only the wisdom that is in it
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” –Mark Twain
Opportunity is missed
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” –Thomas A. Edison
Ordinary riches can be stolen
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” –Oscar Wilde
Our sacred human responsibility
“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.” –Albert Einstein
Passive ancestors
“It is difficult to imagine how dull the world would be if our ancestors had used free time simply for passive entertainment, instead of finding in it an opportunity to explore beauty and knowledge.” –Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Path with no obstacles
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” –Frank A. Clark
Patience with Yourself
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -every day begin the task anew.” –Saint Francis de Sales
Peace and order
“Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.” –Peter Minard
Peace is not the absence of war
“Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of a system for resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary.” –Unknown
Peace is the measure
“Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing -peace is the measure.” –George Melton
Peace process
“The choice between love and fear is made every moment in our hearts and minds. That is where the peace process begins. Without peace within, peace in the world is an empty wish. Like love, peace is extended. It cannot be brought from the world to the heart. It must be brought from each heart to another, and thus to all mankind.” –Paul Ferrini
Peak Intensity
“We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” –Thomas Merton
Peak of civilization
“Simplicity is the peak of civilization.” –Jessie Sampter
People have vast potential
“It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.” –Philip Adams
Perfection
“Perfection, in God’s eyes, is being incapable of choosing deeds that are not based solely in love for oneself or another human being.” –M. Sue Benford
Perfection is achieved
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” –Antoine de St. Exupery
Persist
“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” –Tobias Wolff
Personal dignity
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” –Michael J. Fox
Peter Minard
“Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.” –Peter Minard
Plant indicator
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.” –Unknown
Plants thorns
“He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.” –Fables of Bidpai
Positive mental attitude
“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” –Patricia Neal
Possibility Goose Bumps
“When was the last time your possibilities gave you goose bumps?” –Ben Feldman
Pout energy transformed
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” –Duke Ellington
Power and energy through relationships
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” –Margaret Wheatley
Power attracts
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” –David Brin
Power of a touch
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” –Leo Buscaglia
Praise does wonders
“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” –Arnold Glasgow
Prayer is the most potent instrument
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.” –Mahatma Gandhi
Prelude to faith
“Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.” –Reinhold Niebuhr
Press 3
“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.” –Alice Kahn
Principles
“If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.” –Agatha Christie
Profound truth
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” –Niels Bohr
Profoundly sick society
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” –Krishnamurti
Prolonged prosperity
“If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.” –Winston Churchill
Psychic and emotional starvation
“When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.” –Cherrie Moraga
Pure sincerity
“When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.” –Lao Tzu
Pursue what you are amazingly better at doing
“People put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. Pursue those few things where you are amazingly better than most others and that you enjoy the most.” –Richard Koch
Pursuit of truth and beauty
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” –Albert Einstein
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