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May these quotes about Fathers inspire and motivate you.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
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Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5
Fourscore and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth on this continent,
a new nation, conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
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Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Oh, Shrek. Don't worry.
Things just seem bad because it's dark and rainy
and Fiona's father hired a sleazy hitman to whack you.
- the movie Shrek 2
It doesn't matter who my father was.
It matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Confused Memories of Childhood:
Hate to my father, cruel hate,
confused with love - a mix not great.
The man I love - the man I hate;
the man I want to emulate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
The child in me could not die as it should have died,
because according too legends it must find its father again.
The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence
the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized,
and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human,
as man who created a child and then, by his absence,
left the child fatherless and then Godless.
- Anais Nin
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Always Sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Own Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Drive into your future looking at the open road ahead
rather than into the rear-view mirror of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
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