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Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

Related topics: Values Honor Self

Reputation Quotes and Sayings

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus

Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden

Positive thinking has acquired a bad reputation -
which I believe to be totally undeserved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 

Way Quotes and Sayings

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

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)

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller

The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett

It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

Dance... enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart

Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer

I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn

Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu

The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)

Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Every decision you make - every decision -
is not a decision about what to do.
It's a decision about Who You Are.
When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes.
You begin to see life in a new way.
All events, occurrences, and situations
turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz

By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer

Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus

Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu

Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

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