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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is a day to choose a different path.
Enjoy the unknown way - one step at a time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have an instinctive fear of the unseen.
Make a conscious effort to discover
and embrace the unfamiliar -
to view the unknown not as a lurking monster,
but as a glorious adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier ...
a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils -
a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
- John F. Kennedy
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and the fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear the unknown,
perhaps more than we fear anything else,
and yet we are, at heart, adventurers.
We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion.
Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown,
but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash
that we must know in our hearts
that our adventure is no more than a child's game.
Perhaps we hope that the unknown
is like the darkness of a cave
and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle
can illuminate the entire cave.
Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer
is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is not a truth existing which I fear...
or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- Thomas Jefferson
I honor you, Hero, for you do not play to the crowd.
You play to your own soul.
An audience of one fills the house with its appreciation and applause.
Others follow you, and may attempt to emulate you,
but that is not why you are a hero.
Fame may smile upon you, or it may not.
The world may cheer your name, or you may be the unknown warrior
who rescued comrades in battle,
or taught a young girl how to shed tears of joy.
Whatever you did, you did not do for fame.
If you had, you would not be a Hero.
You are a Hero for your bold courageous inspired action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest battle of all is simply... Life.
This is no child's game. This is the big one -
the Super Bowl - the Game of all games.
The rules of Life are unwritten and unknown.
Perhaps, one could say that there are no rules.
The Judge has ultimate power.
She can call the game at any time - for any reason.
The penalties in the Game are completely arbitrary -
in both timing and severity.
Penalty for what, we ask?
The Judge is silent.
How can I win the Game?
"You can never win," comes the answer,
"So just take pleasure in playing the Game."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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]
Great men, unknown to their generation,
have their fame among the great who have preceded them,
and all true worldly fame subsides
from their high estimate beyond the stars.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is too late to be studying Hebrew;
it is more important to understand
even the slang of to-day.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
It is far more impressive when others
discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
It would be insane for me to
lose sleep over the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Some days just go to Hell faster than others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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