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Let these Polite quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
Politeness is organized indifference.
- Paul Valery
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor,
it covers the natural want of it,
and ends by rendering habitual a substitute
nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so,
a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Thomas Jefferson
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
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