Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy 
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
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
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
I hope we shall crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson (from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816)
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
Children, cartoon animals, comedians,
and space aliens can get away with saying
what the rest of us are afraid is true,
but are embarrassed to talk about.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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