What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
I am the owner of my choices.
I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold...
regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess
that particular perspective.
It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses.
I will look into that mirror little bits at a time.
SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able.
This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If I seem to boast more than is becoming,
my excuse is that I brag
for humanity rather than for myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay...
does not represent the will of the American people.
I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong.
I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse
to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
- Jimmy Carter
Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
The interests of a nation, when well understood,
will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- Thomas Jefferson
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Rights that do not flow from duty
well performed are not worth having.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no point at which you can say,
"Well, I'm successful now.
I might as well take a nap."
- Carrie Fisher
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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