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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
Related topics: Wisdom Science
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
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Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
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
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
We are all one - the web of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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