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I choose to be caring, compassionate and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Affirmations

Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

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There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

 

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar

Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22

Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter

Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall

Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway
is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham

Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter

I feel the same way about solitude as some people
feel about the blessing of the church.
It's the light of grace for me.
I never close my door behind me without the awareness
that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
- Peter Hoeg

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines

Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus

If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus

There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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