Jimmy Carter Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Jimmy Carter
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
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We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
- Jimmy Carter
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
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Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
Not Sayings
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
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