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The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Intention
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are
an eraser at the drafting board,
and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Get the habit of analysis -
analysis will in time enable synthesis
to become your habit of mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Regard it as just as desirable to build
a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
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
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
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