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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. – Mark Twain
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. – French Proverb
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love. – Reinhold Niebuhr
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. – Virgil
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. – Thomas Hobbes
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. – Vincent McNabb
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. – Edward R. Murrow
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. – Albert Schweitzer
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. – Salvador Dali
The rest is silence. – William Shakespeare
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. – Aristotle
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. – Jimmy Johnson
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. – Mick Jagger
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. – Richard Bach
Complexity is a sign of intelligence. Simplicity is a sign of wisdom – Med Jones
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. – Sidney Madwed
People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way' – Oliver Wendell Holmes
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. – Plato
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. – Buddha
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. – Henri Frdric Amiel
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. – J. B. Priestley
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others -- it is in yourself alone. – Orison Swett Marden
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. – Anonymous
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. – Thomas Huxley
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. – Lord Acton
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. – Ronald Reagan
You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand. – Robert Louis Stephenson
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. – Thomas Carlyle
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. – Benjamin Franklin
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. – Muhammad Ali
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. – Publilius Syrus
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. – Epicurus
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. – Henri Frdric Amiel
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. – Publilius Syrus
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator. – Johann von Goethe
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. – Willa Cather
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. – Mark Twain
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. – Benjamin Franklin
Avarice, envy, pride, three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on fire. – Dante Alighieri
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. – Karl Marx
All progress occurs because people dare to be different. – Harry Millner
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. – Albert Schweitzer
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. – Benjamin Franklin
The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice. – Doug Larson
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. – Anatole France
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. – Charles Caleb Colton
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. – Frank Herbert
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. – William Arthur Ward
The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. – Mark Twain
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. – William Arthur Ward
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. – Mignon McLaughlin
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it. – Georges Duhamel
Were there not an Israel, the US would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region. – Joe Biden
He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas. – Benjamin Franklin
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. – Joseph Farrell
If you can't return a favor, pass it on. – Louise Brown
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. – William Makepeace Thackeray
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. – Danish proverb
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. – Euripides
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. – Michael Levine
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. – Benjamin Franklin
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. – Publilius Syrus
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. – Henry Kissinger
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. – James Allen
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. – Steve Maraboli
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – Sigmund Freud
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. – Ray Bradbury
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. – Albert Einstein
If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing. – Anatole France
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore Harold White
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – E. M. Forster
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. – Pliny the Elder
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. – Alexis Carrel
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. – Indira Gandhi
If you find yourself in the middle of a storm, dress yourself with courage, and look forward to the rainbow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
Search for contentment in each person you meet. – Steve Maraboli
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. – Henry Drummond
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. – Walt Whitman
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. – G.K. Chesterton
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown
Follow your own star! – Dante Alighieri
You cannot change your reality if you think someone else is responsible for it. – Gordana Biernat
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. – Maxwell Maltz
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. – James Allen
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. – Brenda Ueland
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. – Moliere
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. – Heinrich Heine
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. – Ross Perot
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – William Shedd
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. – William S. Gilbert
Everybody have a problem in their life but, not everybody have the courage to face it – Jerome K. Jerome
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. – Confucius
Change starts when someone sees the next step. – William Drayton
Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never find your delight in another's misfortune. – Publilius Syrus
What's behind you doesn't matter. – Enzo Ferrari
There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you. – Pele
Everyone thinks his own burden heavy. – French Proverb
To know is not less than to feel. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. – Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? – Peter McWilliams
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
Even the longest day has its end. – Irish Proverb
It's better to burn out than fade away. – Kurt Cobain
A candle is at its brightest in the dark. – Matshona Dhliwayo
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes
If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Alva Edison
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind. – Denis Watley
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. – Henry Ford
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. – Theodore Parker
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. – Gaius Julius Caesar
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. – Thomas Huxley
The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none. – James Boswell
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives. – Abba Eban
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent. – Daniel Defoe
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. – Henry Ford
Most people have to talk so they won't hear. – May Sarton
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. – Joseph Chilton Pearce
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. – William Cobbett
The road to success is always under construction. – Jim Miller
Work like you don’t need money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. – Satchel Paige
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. – Homer
Customs are more powerful than laws. – The Talmud
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment. – Louis D. Brandeis
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. – Ramsey Clark
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton
The only way to find happiness is to make someone happy. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress. – Frederick Douglas
Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Success is quest that will take me a life time to fulfill but it is worth the wait... – Teddy Carroll
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. – Sir Francis Bacon
Look with favour upon a bold beginning. – Virgil
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. – Euripides
I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
Let Your Faith Be Bigger Than Your Fear! – George Santayana
I am a citizen of the world. – Laertius Diogenes
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. – Peace Pilgrim
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela
My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it. – Clarence Buddinton Kelland
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. – Yiddish Proverb
Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. – Edwin Schlossberg
Anger is a bad counselor. – French Proverb
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. – William Hazlitt
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. – Isaac Asimov
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. – Albert Schweitzer
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X
Whatever happened yesterday was the past. – Osho
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. – Jonathan Swift
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. – Franklin P. Adams
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. – Satchel Paige
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. – Walter Schmidt
The ancestor of every action is a thought. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. – W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. – Will Durant
Laughing deeply is living deeply. – Milan Kundera
Remember that there is an abundance of happiness that can be found in the smallest of places. – Steve Maraboli
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Alva Edison
Little by little, one travels far. – J. R. R. Tolkien
The ends must justify the means. – Matthew Prior
No one wants advice -- only corroboration. – John Steinbeck
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. – Soren Kierkegaard
There can be no freedom without freedom to fail. – Eric Hoffer
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. – Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
No matter what we want of life — we have to give up something in order to get it. – Raymond Holliwell
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. – Laurence J. Peter
Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important. – Vanna Bonta
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. – Denis Diderot
Nothing is stronger than habit. – Ovid
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. – Pope John Paul II
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. – Salvador Dalí
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. – Henri Frdric Amiel
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. – Washington Irving
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. – Charles Baudelaire
We are what we imagine ourselves to be. – Kurt Vonnegut
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul. – Thomas Fuller
It's time to start living the life you've imagined. – Henry James
What you cannot enforce, do not command. – Sophocles
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. – J. K. Rowling
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still. – Johann von Goethe
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. – Mother Teresa
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – Edmund Burke
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness. – William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. – Tom Landry
The road up and the road down is one and the same. – Heraclitus
In life, we have three choices; to lead, follow or resist the change. The last choice is the usually the most expensive one. – Med Jones
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself. – Jacob Bigelow
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. – Phil Crosby
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. – Walt Whitman
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. – George Bernard Shaw
In adversity remember to keep an even mind. – Horace
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. – Thomas à Kempis
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. – Albert Camus
Everything changes, nothing remains without change. – Buddha
Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement. – Carl Jung
Life is largely a matter of expectation. – Horace
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. – Shakti Gawain
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. – Charlie Chaplin
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. – Henry Ford
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. – Socrates
There’s nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are. – Ken Mehlman
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent van Gogh
All the resources we need are in the mind. – Theodore Roosevelt
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. – Andre Gide
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. – Samuel Johnson
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. – John Sloan
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. – Albert Camus
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. – Johann von Goethe
I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes. – Sara Teasdale
If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you can’t. – Stendhal
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. – Johann von Goethe
It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. – Hyman Rickover
It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. – James Allen
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. – Thomas Fuller
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. – Carl Jung
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. – James Baldwin
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. – Publilius Syrus
A healthy mind in a healthy body. – Juvenal
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – Ayn Rand
Strength is the outcome of need. – H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. – D. H. Lawrence
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. – Titus Maccius Plautus
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. – Plutarch
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. – John Lennon
We are always in our own company. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 166
Within the problem lies the solution. – Milton Katselas
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. – Johann von Goethe
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things. – Jacques Maritain
Don't fall before you're pushed. – English Proverb
When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything. – Swiss Proverb
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. – Martha Grimes
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. – Calvin Coolidge
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. – Barbara Hall
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. – James Thurber
You can never learn less, you can only learn more. – Richard Buckminster Fuller
Your aspirations are your possibilities. – Samuel Johnson
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing. – Lillian Eichler Watson
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. – H. G. Wells
I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage. – Samuel Barber
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
when you summon the courage to do what others won't, you will have in life what others don't. – yoda
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. – Epictetus
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one shows his image. – Goethe
None meet life honestly and few heroically. – Clarence Darrow
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. – Edith Hamilton
There are two ways to live your life: one as though nothing is a miracle and the other as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. – Albert Einstein
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. – Dorothea Brande
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step. – Oswald Chambers
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. – George William Curtis
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. – Anatole France
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. – Miguel de Cervantes
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. – James Allen
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly. – Mary Kay Ash
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. – Joseph Campbell
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. – Sir Walter Besant
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies. – Ann Landers
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. – Booker T. Washington
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun. – Kahlil Gibran
Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse. – G. C. Lichtenberg
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Bertrand Russell
If you don't risk anything you risk even more. – Erica Jong
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. – Charles Spurgeon
The game's not over until it's over. – Lawrence Peter Berra
We live, as we dream, alone. – Joseph Conrad
Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Real love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. – John Atkinson
Life is a moment waiting to happen. – Ali
It takes a great man to be a good listener. – Calvin Coolidge
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. – J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. – Thomas à Kempis
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. – Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter
Who gossips to you will gossip about you. – Turkish
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. – Jennifer Jones
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. – James Allen
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. – David Hume
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. – Saadi
Happiness: A good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. – Henri Frdric Amiel
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit. – Jeremy Taylor
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. – Leo C. Rosten
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. – Saki
With great power, comes great responsibility. – Spider-Man
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. – Benjamin Jowett
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is something to do. – John Burroughs
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. – Wilson Mizner
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. – C. C. Colton
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. – Hannah Arendt
A wounded deer leaps the highest. – Emily Dickinson
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Agnes Repplier
Every exit is an entry somewhere. – Tom Stoppard
Second thoughts are ever wiser. – Euripides
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. – Marya Mannes
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. – Charles Caleb Colton
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. – Claude Levi-Strauss
A goal without a plan is just a wish. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. – Dr. Robert Anthony
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. – Albert Einstein
Do to others what you would have them do to you. – New Testament
Delay is preferable to error. – Thomas Jefferson
The people's good is the highest law. – Cicero
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. – Lewis Carroll
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. – Agatha Christie
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. – Voltaire
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. – John Andrew Holmes
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde
Where the determination is, the way can be found. – George S. Clason
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. – Judy Garland
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer
Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas Alva Edison
There would be no great men if there were no little ones. – George Herbert
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. – Marya Mannes
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. – Iris Murdoch
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. – The Midrash
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. – Isaac Asimov
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. – Theodore Parker
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. – Galileo Galilei
Truth is always the strongest argument. – Sophocles
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. – Lewis Carroll
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Be not simply good - be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. – U Thant
Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect. – English Proverb
Keep Walking......Define Yourself By Where You Are Headed! – George Santayana
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. – Thomas a Kempis
It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. – Billy Graham
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others. – John F. Kennedy
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. – Wilson Mizner
It is one thing to wish to have Truth on our side, and another thing to wish sincerely to be on the side of Truth. – Richard Whately
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. – Janis Joplin
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. – Vernon Howard
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. – Robert Burns
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. – Mother Teresa
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. – George Washington Carver
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. – Charles Peguy
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. – Isaac Asimov
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. – Victor Hugo
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. – Frank A. Clark
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. – George Burton Adams
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. – George Bernard Shaw
Hope is the nurse of misery. – American Proverb
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Sir Winston Churchill
All we ask is to be let alone. – Jefferson Davis
Health is not valued till sickness comes. – Thomas Fuller
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. – Sir Winston Churchill
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. – Ayn Rand
Practice like you never won; play like you never lost. – Michael Jordan
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. – Epictetus
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucious
Confirm your values and inspire others to confirm theirs. – Prof.Salam Al Shereida
If you want to bring a change then bring the same change in yourself first. – Bahram Baloch
It is never wrong to do the right thing. – Shakespeare
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. – Golda Meir
Smile, it raises your face value. – Steven J.Feldman
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself. – Woodrow Wilson
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today. – Aldous Huxley
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. – Abraham Lincoln
You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal. – C. S. Lewis
Intelligence helps you think inside of the box. Creativity helps you think outside of the box. – Matshona Dhliwayo
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. – William Makepeace Thackeray
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. – George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. – Albert Camus
All is not gold that glitters. – Miguel de Cervantes
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. – William Arthur Ward
There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. – Tennessee Williams
Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
When in doubt, do the courageous thing. – Jan Smuts
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. – Voltaire
As is our confidence, so is our capacity. – William Hazlitt
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. – William Ralph Inge
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. – Henry Ward Beecher
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Let your desires be ruled by reason. – Cicero
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. – Socrates
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
Always live your life as if you were already halfway to a dream. – Dr. Rich Melheim
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. – George S. Patton
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. – Albert Einstein

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

– French Proverb

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

– Reinhold Niebuhr

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

– Virgil

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

– Thomas Hobbes

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

– Vincent McNabb

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.