Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius 
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
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