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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
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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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- 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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- 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
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
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
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
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway
is usually a poor judge of distance.
- 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
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
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
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
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
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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