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Seldom Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Seldom
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Related topics: Wisdom
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
Things Quotes and Sayings
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
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
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
