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Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Related topics: Motivational
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
Life is a constant opponent,
and an overpowering adversary if attacked directly.
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life -
a parry here, a feint there - always engaged,
but never in the direct line of life's heaviest blows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door
of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
I pray that my greatest desires will always be for
exactly what Spirit is offering me at that very moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44
I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)
Pray for the angry,
but express your prayers and intentions silently.
Saying openly to an angry person,
"I pray for you to receive inner-peace."
is almost certain to provoke an even angrier reaction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Let light shine through the cracks
in the armor of your staunchest beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Let's Roll.
- Todd Beamer
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
When life seems overwhelming, just step back for a day.
Consider what is most important.
Focus on the crucial issues in your life.
Just let the rest of your upsets go.
You can't fix the whole world, but you can still make a difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Don't let anyone else take the measure
of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are.
- Margaret Spellings
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let your fire go out.
- Ayn Rand
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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