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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey 
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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