How to Be the Change

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Preface
Some time in the mid-1980’s I visited my friend Bob Hayek at his home in south Georgia
and came across a book Bob had given his son entitled God's Little Instruction Book for
Graduates. The book prompted me to start collecting quotes that I thought were
inspirational, provocative, amusing or otherwise worth reflection.
After reading Mahatma Gandhi’s “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” and
bumper stickers “Be the Change”, I expanded the collection to include any quote that would
help anyone to be the change.
Please feel free to pass this document along (or copy it for non-commercial purposes) to
anyone searching for inspiration, ambition or a goal in life.
Kirk Wilson, Ed.D., CEO
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Email: [email protected]
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that
when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. Milne
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We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. Milne
3.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others
to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A. A. Milne
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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that
your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the
impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever
lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on
after you have taken hold.
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly
find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as
you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at
something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat
of something I have done.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do
not exist.
Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too
much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little
gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy
of life.
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from
stress and worry and fear, the negative emotions. Those are
the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today,
most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful
individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that
was expected of them and a little bit more.
If you stop trying now, then you'll never know what could
have come of it in the future.
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would
die in infancy.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may
give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
13.
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
14.
Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little
in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there
accumulates.
15.
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with
ardor and attended to with diligence.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy,
for contempt too high.
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of
being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of
your life.
Abraham Cowley
Abraham H. Maslow
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A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Abraham Lincoln
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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is
more important than any other one thing.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of
them?
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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Determine that a thing can and shall be done, and then we
shall find the way.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is
the way of a whole human being.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not
bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I
have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand
with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes
wrong.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that
events have controlled me.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
29.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each
and every day.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always
followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true
views.
Abraham Lincoln
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are
tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to
do it.
Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you
surely will.
Abraham Lincoln
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Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds
to be.
Abraham Lincoln
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether
you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day
at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left
by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong
impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what
they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. You can
have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can
be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to
accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of
purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every
problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet
must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Moslow
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change
anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Abu Bakr
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
Abu Bakr
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God blesses him who helps his brother.
Abu Bakr
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who
weep.
Abu Bakr
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
Abu Bakr
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
Abu Bakr
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Intentions count in your actions.
Abu Bakr
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Let them hate, so long as they fear.
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Two things are written in stone: 1. Kindness in another's
troubles. 2. Courage in your own.
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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to
the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of
acquiring it.
59.
It is not true that nice people finish last. Nice people are
winners before the game ever starts.
60.
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can
forget.
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Change is not a matter of not doing something. It is a matter
of doing something else — something that is inherently right,
free, and pleasurable. Therefore, the key is insight and the
freedom to feel and participate in ways of functioning that are
right and new.
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Adam Lindsay
Gordon
Adam Smith
Addison Walker
Adela Rogers St.
John
Adi Da Samraj
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular
positions.
Adlai Stevenson
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai Stevenson
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai Stevenson
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Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our
stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal
appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation
often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai Stevenson
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There are no gains without pains.
Adlai Stevenson
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we
know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai Stevenson
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What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the
moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of
our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and
human will.
Adlai Stevenson
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be
driven into practice with courageous patience.
71.
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things
we will not do, lies the danger that we shall do nothing.
Adolph Monod
It can change as much as it likes. As long as it stays the
same.
Adrian Mourby
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When a person's willing and eager, the gods join in.
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Slow and steady win the race.
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Rickover
Aeschylus
Aesop
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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all
the way you expect them to.
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Even God cannot change the past.
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In my experience, in the real-estate business past success
stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We
must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing
times with innovative new business models.
Agatha Christie
Agathon
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
79.
The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it
Capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and every one of
us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and
make the most of it.
Akira Mori
Al Bernstein
Al Capone
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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
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To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of
reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can
open all kinds of inner doors.
Al Oerter
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth,
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal
with a world that no longer exists.
Al Rogers
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions
are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in
while, or the light won't come in.
We shall have to learn to refrain from doing things merely
because we know how to do them.
Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the
inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek
sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to
God.
Al Lee
Alan Alda
Alan Mackay
Alan Paton
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the
last judgement, it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in
which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of
tortured children.
Albert Camus
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You cannot create experience, you undergo it.
Albert Camus
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...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and
science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity
and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own evershifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape
from the personal life into the world of objective perception
and thought.
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90.
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find
harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
91.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein
92.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and
outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead,
and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same
measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks
should be.
Albert Einstein
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on
sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is
necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to
be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after
death.
Albert Einstein
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be
our main problem.
Albert Einstein
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything
new.
Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the
others crazy?
Albert Einstein
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a
man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
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Action without thought is a form of insanity; thought without
action is a crime.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the
opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are
the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
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Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to
move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more
complex...It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to
move in the opposite direction.
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Albert Einstein
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is
simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious
virtue.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are
not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer
to reality.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the
relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy,
pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
Albert Einstein
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
116.
Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
117.
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less
merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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eighteen.
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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief
interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the
midst of your diagrams and equations.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my
opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll
understand what little chance you have of changing others.
Albert Einstein
124.
Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
125.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can
assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one
has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
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Equations are more important to me, because politics is for
the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily
based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one
idolized.
Albert Einstein
130.
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
131.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
simpler.
Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
Everything that the human race has done and thought is
concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the
assuagement of pain.
Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their
own hearts.
Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social
environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such
opinions.
Albert Einstein
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein
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God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He
integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein
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God does not play dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein
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God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
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God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Albert Einstein
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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein
143.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in
love.
Albert Einstein
144.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
145.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of
understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to
conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his
opinions courageously and honestly.
mediocre minds.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a person
does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from
weak minds.
Albert Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by
mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already
earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by
mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.
Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how
despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to
shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction
that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of
murder.
Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the
loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of
chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon
as first love?
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they
cannot find it.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new
kind of religion.
Albert Einstein
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I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
159.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to
fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people
themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly
harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself
with the fates and actions of human beings.
Albert Einstein
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best
for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects
of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects
of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a
God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither
can I believe that the individual survives the death of his
body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through
fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein
166.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I
consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no
superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and
punishes evil.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war
fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the
people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought,
but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
170.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
172.
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent;
curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with
self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
Albert Einstein
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in
the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest
and noblest motive for scientific research.
Albert Einstein
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein
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I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the
conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
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I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein
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I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein
180.
I want to know how God created this world. I am not
interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know His
thoughts, the rest are details.
Albert Einstein
181.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is
x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
182.
If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.
Albert Einstein
183.
If one were to take that goal out of its religious form and look
merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps
thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so
that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service
of all mankind.
Albert Einstein
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and
hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
185.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
186.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research, would it?
Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the
tailor.
Albert Einstein
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well
enough.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming
attractions.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for
knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire
world.
Albert Einstein
191.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
192.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between
large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment
of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep
one must, above all, be a sheep.
Albert Einstein
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our
existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
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196.
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
197.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only
at death.
Albert Einstein
199.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
200.
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know
where to find it.
Albert Einstein
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books
should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of
an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has
exceeded our humanity.
204.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
205.
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring
everything to the realm of possibility.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil
spirit of man.
Albert Einstein
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least
the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by
the ideal of service.
Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is
nothing but an act of murder.
210.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
211.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so
lonely.
212.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
213.
It is the theory that decides what can be observed.
Albert Einstein
214.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a
barmaid.
Albert Einstein
215.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before
himself and before nature.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before
himself and before nature.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems
longer.
Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful
gift.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what
should be.
Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The
important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man
idolized.
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand
everything better.
Albert Einstein
225.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
226.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
227.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein
228.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
229.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially
simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language
comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great
scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are
able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of
mankind.
Albert Einstein
Nearly every great advance in science arises from a crises in
the old theory, through an endeavor to find a way out of the
difficulties created. We must examine old ideas, old theories,
although they belong to the past, for this is the only way to
understand the importance of the new ones and the extent of
their validity.
Albert Einstein
223.
224.
230.
231.
232.
233.
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234.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state
demands it.
Albert Einstein
235.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
236.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a
single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level of
consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to
explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a
biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government
and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be
enforced.
Albert Einstein
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the
universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the
greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on
earth.
Albert Einstein
237.
238.
239.
240.
241.
242.
243.
244.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances
for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a
vegetarian diet.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of
me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in
physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and
future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact
prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not
because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
245.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein
246.
One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that
created it in the first place.
Albert Einstein
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the
examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had
such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the
final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific
problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Albert Einstein
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its
comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense
their nature simply and clearly.
Albert Einstein
247.
248.
249.
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it
has some of the character of a religion and inspires the
emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein
251.
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
Albert Einstein
252.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole
strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason
mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be
attained through understanding.
Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by
understanding.
Albert Einstein
253.
254.
255.
256.
257.
258.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately
sees results.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to
characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
259.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein
260.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
261.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like
an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a
minute. THAT's relativity.
Albert Einstein
262.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from
its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses
his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
263.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
264.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn
one's living at it.
265.
266.
267.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is
blind.
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is
blind.
Albert Einstein
Significant problems you face cannot be solved at the same
level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
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268.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and
think with their minds.
Albert Einstein
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one
is more mature.
Albert Einstein
270.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein
271.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein
272.
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a
short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to
divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however,
there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake
of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and
well-being our own happiness depends.
Albert Einstein
273.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
274.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a
pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
269.
275.
276.
277.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior
reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible
universe, forms my idea of God.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely
been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.
Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius
has its limits.
Albert Einstein
The difference between what the most and the least learned
people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is
unknown.
Albert Einstein
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a
stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
281.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
282.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein
283.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Albert Einstein
284.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for
there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
278.
279.
280.
285.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the
more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine
religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of
death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational
knowledge.
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Albert Einstein
286.
287.
288.
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number
of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest
number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income
tax.
Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to
rule.
Albert Einstein
290.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
291.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has
its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift; the rational mind is faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
293.
The legs are the wheels of creativity.
Albert Einstein
294.
The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in
making the life of every living thing nobler and more
beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value
to which all other values are subordinate.
289.
292.
295.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
296.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the
creative mind.
297.
298.
299.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious
the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true
art and true science.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and 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 most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
301.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein
302.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen
at once.
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
300.
303.
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304.
305.
306.
307.
308.
309.
310.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my
education.
Albert Einstein
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to
go on working.
Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual
flight from wonder.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which
we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The release of atom power has changed everything except
our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the
heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become
a watchmaker.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an
existing one.
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip
service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
311.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
312.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
313.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the
same level of thinking that created them.
314.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
315.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree
to which he has attained liberation from the self.
316.
317.
318.
319.
320.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward
unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not
in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of
everyday thinking.
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The
ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in
New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the
same, only without the cat.
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not
seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The
physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought
are certain signs and more or less clear images.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
321.
322.
323.
324.
325.
326.
327.
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the
people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do
anything about it.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do
evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but
because of those who look at it without doing anything.
The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking
we have done this far creates problems that we cannot solve
at the same level at which we created them.
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.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of
knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than
that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory
in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein
328.
There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.
Albert Einstein
329.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental
laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a
feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
330.
331.
332.
333.
334.
335.
336.
Albert Einstein
They come into being not through demonstration but through
revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Albert Einstein
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any
simpler.
Albert Einstein
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting
itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty...
this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true
religiousness.
Albert Einstein
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old
problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and
marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein
To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike
inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
Albert Einstein
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without
a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without
a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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337.
338.
339.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is
a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the
Americans themselves.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative
artist.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all
one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein
340.
Try not to be a person of success but a person of value.
Albert Einstein
341.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
Albert Einstein
342.
343.
344.
345.
346.
347.
348.
349.
350.
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these
impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve
for our self preservation and that of the race.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are
human beings.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we
used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if
mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has,
of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has,
of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what
nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what
nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
352.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
353.
What I seek to accomplish is to serve with my feeble capacity
truth and justice at the risk of pleasing no one.
Albert Einstein
351.
354.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come
to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to
me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
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355.
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come
to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to
me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
356.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
357.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be
trusted with important matters.
358.
359.
360.
361.
362.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was
created.
You do not really understand something unless you can
explain it to your grandmother.
368.
369.
370.
Albert Einstein
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our
politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far
more important, for politics are only a matter of present
concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
364.
367.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
366.
Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one
exists for other people.
363.
365.
Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have
to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You
pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los
Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly
the same way: you send signals here, they receive them
there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your
mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you
control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
Do something for somebody every day for which you do not
get paid.
Albert Schweitzer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the
only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us
can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer
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371.
372.
In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after
year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in
thinking must always be reborn.
Albert Schweitzer
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to
success. If you love what you are doing, you will be
successful.
Albert Schweitzer
373.
To affirm life is to deepen, and to exalt the will to live.
Albert Schweitzer
374.
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take
nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the
kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for
you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for
the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put
off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
375.
376.
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and
thinking what nobody else has thought.
377.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
378.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only
thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
379.
380.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old
age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Albus Dumbledore
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
381.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make thee mad.
Aldous Huxley
382.
You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can
do it.
Alex Morrison
383.
384.
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage
themselves.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words — wait and
hope.
385.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
386.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The
sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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Alexander Dumas
Alexander Graham
Bell
Alexander Graham
Bell
387.
388.
389.
390.
391.
392.
393.
394.
395.
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success
is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully
advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and
wider, and progressively better able to grasp any theme or
situation, persevering in what he knows to be practical, and
concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in
the greatest degree.
Alexander Graham
Bell
We are all too much inclined to walk through life with our
eyes shut. There are things all around us, and right at our
very feet, that we have never seen; because we have never
really looked.
Alexander Graham
Bell
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists
and it becomes available only when a person is in that state
of mind in which the person knows exactly what he or she
wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds
it.
Alexander Graham
Bell
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we
do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham
Bell
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not
the Pierian Spring.
Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal within the human breast: Man never is,
but always to be blest.
Alexander Pope
In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold; Alike
Fantastick, if too New, or Old; Be not the first by whom the
New are try’d, Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk,
at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
A person gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of
the puddles in the road.
Alexander Smith
396.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Alexander Smith
397.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously
committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate
them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line
dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human
being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
398.
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
399.
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a
dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
400.
Your work may be finished someday, but your education,
never.
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Solzhenitsyn
Alexander The
Great
Alexander Woollcott
Alexandre Dumas
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401.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive
qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also
make use of our defects.
Alexis de
Tocqueville
402.
Life happens at the level of events, not words.
Alfred Adler
403.
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been
experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and
the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not
of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
If I have three hundred ideas a year and one of them is
useful, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel
404.
405.
406.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can
only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
407.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that
does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and
idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are
paying the penalty for it.
408.
409.
410.
411.
412.
413.
414.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to
preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed
alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system
of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the
present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy
ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to
begin...But there was always some obstacle in the way,
something to be gotten through first, some unfinished
business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.Then life
would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles
were my life.
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of
goodness.
When your premise is ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ you can skip a lot
of boring and distracting discussions and just get to work.
Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute,
and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for
us in the end.
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the
best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my
world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete
confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing
thoughts.
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Whitehead
Alfred North
Whitehead
Alfred North
Whitehead
Alfred North
Whitehead
Alfred Souza
Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
Alia Johnson
Alice Caldwell Rice
Alice Potter
415.
416.
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The most common way people give up their power is by
thinking they don’t have any.
You can look back at your past but you don’t have to stare at
it.
417.
There's no easy way.
418.
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are
the requisites for success.
419.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The more things
change, the more they are the same.
420.
421.
Alice Walker
Alicia Posell Wilson
Allan Wells
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The more things
change, the more they remain the same.
The more things change, the more they are the same. Plus ça
change, plus c’est la même chose.
Alonzo Newton
Benn
Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr
422.
Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life.
Alvin Toffler
423.
Change is the process by which the future invades our live,
and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the
grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point
of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
Alvin Toffler
424.
425.
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to
relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be
compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
The secret message communicated to most young people
today by the society around them is that they are not needed,
that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some
distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the
fact is that the society is not running itself nicely, because the
rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent
that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties.
For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without
the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.
426.
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the
deadline looms large.
427.
The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of
purpose.
428.
429.
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move.
Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful,
including what is ugly.
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Alyce P. CornynSelby
Alymer Letterman
Amar Gopal Bose
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430.
431.
432.
433.
Events that are predestined require but little management.
They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep,
and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt,
is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and
the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work
that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind
themselves.
Amelia Earhart
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able
to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of
fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding
companionship.
Amelia Earhart
The short-term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals
in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be
carried out.
434.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal
influence.
435.
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the
ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your
dreams.
436.
437.
438.
439.
440.
441.
442.
443.
American
Management
Amos Bronson
Alcott
Amy Grant
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than
it is of genius.
An Wang
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not
born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a
new world is born.
Anais Nin
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to
live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Anais Nin
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow
sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one
realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future
mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the
present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
Anais Nin
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must
die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory,
or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate
between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also
dream, not only dream but also believe.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also
dream. Not only plan but also believe.
Anatole France
446.
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Anatole France
447.
The key to survival is to learn to add more value today and
every day.
445.
448.
449.
450.
451.
452.
453.
If you make a general statement, a programmer says, 'Yes,
but...' while a designer says, 'Yes, and...' No matter what the
problem is, it's always a people problem.
Andew Grove
André Bensoussan
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to
yourself “it all depends on me.”
Andre Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to
lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
One does not discover new continents without consenting to
lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered
actions.
The quality of expectations determines the quality of our
action.
Andre Gide
André Gide
Andre Godin
454.
Aim for the highest.
Andrew Carnegie
455.
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just
watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
Concentration is my motto; first honesty, then industry, then
concentration.
Andrew Carnegie
456.
457.
458.
459.
460.
461.
462.
Do your duty and a little bit more, and the future will take
care of itself.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He
that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability
into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in
more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for
those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie
The first person gets the oyster, the second person gets the
shell.
Andrew Carnegie
The law of competition is best for the race, because it ensures
survival of the fittest.
Andrew Carnegie
God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.
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463.
You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to
take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything
less will condemn your efforts to failure.
464.
One man with courage is a majority.
465.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives,
stop thinking and go in.
466.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
467.
He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable
scene.
468.
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two
people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change
a whole town. They can change the world.
Andrew Grove
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Marvell
Andrew Schneider
469.
Are you running to survive or are you running to get better?
Andy Trautman
470.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have
to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of
the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan
471.
472.
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; clothes
do not make the person, the saddle not the horse.
473.
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
474.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to
bed with a mosquito in the room.
475.
476.
477.
478.
479.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be
different, be just.
Angelius Silesius
Anita Defrantz
Anita Koddick
Anita Roddick
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being
cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs
scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure
footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody
wants to read the small print in dreams.
Ann Landers
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who
can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
There are always women who will take men on their own
terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while
there are women like that around.
480.
God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.
481.
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of
success.
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Anna Delaney Peale
Anna Pavlova
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482.
You can plant a dream.
483.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
485.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank
486.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just
show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
484.
487.
Anne Campbell
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too
greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only
impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience,
patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One
should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach waiting for a
gift from the sea.
488.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is
true security to be found.
489.
In a dream you are never eighty.
490.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the
most insignificant success is achieved.
491.
492.
493.
Anne Lamott
Anne Morrow
Lindberg
Anne Morrow
Lindbergh
Anne Sexton
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that
in a single second your whole life could change.
I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred
years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only
change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.
Ask yourself “Have you been kind today?” Make kindness your
daily modus operandi and change your world.
Anne Sullivan
Annette Funicello
Annie Elizabeth
Delany
Annie Lennox
494.
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
Anon.
495.
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Anon.
496.
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love
and dreams.
497.
498.
499.
Anon.
A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as
the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! That's Graduation!
Anon.
A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long
enough to DO something.
Anon.
A person cannot cling to anything unless she believes in it;
belief always precedes action, therefore a person's deeds and
life are the fruits of her belief.
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500.
A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
Anon.
501.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
Anon.
502.
A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.
Anon.
503.
Above all, challenge yourself. You may be surprised by what
you can achieve.
Anon.
504.
Above all, life should be fun.
Anon.
505.
Accept criticism and seek counsel of those who will tell you
your faults. Mere praise will never bring the improvement you
need. He that won't be counseled can't be helped
Anon.
506.
Accomplishment begins with action.
Anon.
507.
Accomplishment, like life, is a journey, not a destination.
Anon.
508.
Achievement comes when you decide to live your possibilities.
Anon.
509.
Achievements are works in progress.
Anon.
510.
Achievers are committed to their goals and driven by
determination.
Anon.
Add value to every day. Sharpen your skills, your
understanding.
Anon.
512.
Aim for excellence, not perfection.
Anon.
513.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Anon.
514.
All movement is not progress, just as all motion is not
forward.
Anon.
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the
ladder is the ladder.
Anon.
511.
515.
516.
An archer cannot hit the bull’s-eye if he doesn’t know where
the target is.
Anon.
517.
An artist is anyone who takes pride in doing a job well.
Anon.
518.
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches
young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them
how to make a life.
Anon.
An expert knows all the answers if you ask the right
questions.
Anon.
520.
Are you going places, or just being taken?
Anon.
521.
Assurance is two-thirds success
Anon.
522.
Attitude is everything.
Anon.
519.
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523.
Be God or let God.
Anon.
524.
Be thankful that you don't already have everything you
desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don't know something
For it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge
Because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes
They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you're tired and weary
Because it means you've made a difference.
It is easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are
also thankful for the setbacks.
Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles
and they can become your blessings.
Anon.
525.
Be true to your own goals.
Anon.
526.
Be willing to make decisions.
Anon.
527.
Behind every success is endeavor, Behind endeavor, ability,
Behind ability, knowledge, Behind knowledge, a seeker.
Anon.
528.
Belief is the thermostat that regulates all success.
Anon.
529.
Believe that you have it and you have it.
Anon.
530.
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and
receive without forgetting.
Anon.
531.
Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.
Anon.
532.
Break up goals into small, manageable units. An elephant can
only be eaten one bite at a time.
Anon.
533.
Challenge your most cherished assumptions.
Anon.
534.
Challenges are an opportunity to learn and grow.
Anon.
535.
Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's
just a matter of how you view them.
Anon.
536.
Champions believe in themselves even if no one else does.
Anon.
537.
Change is good. You go first.
Anon.
538.
Children are great imitators. So give them something great to
imitate.
Anon.
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539.
Choose two: Good. Fast. Cheap.
Anon.
540.
Closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.
Anon.
541.
Confidence and courage come through preparation and
practice.
542.
Count your achievements at the end of every day.
543.
Courage and patience are learned by meeting adversity head
on.
544.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
Courage is not defined by those who fall but by those who fall
and rise again.
Anon.
545.
Curiosity is the beginning of success.
Anon.
546.
Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail. By doing so, you will
succeed.
Anon.
Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't
succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a
solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.
Anon.
548.
Do little things in extraordinary ways.
Anon.
549.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where
there is no path and leave a trail.
Anon.
550.
Do not settle for less than an extraordinary life.
Anon.
551.
Do not succumb to mediocrity.
Anon.
552.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's
forehead.
547.
553.
Anon.
Do not wait for extraordinary opportunities. Use ordinary
situations to achieve great results.
Anon.
554.
Do the right thing. Do it right. Do it right now.
Anon.
555.
Don’t be discouraged; everyone who got where he is, started
where he was.
Anon.
Don’t judge a person until you have walked a mile in his
moccasins.
Anon.
Don’t judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to
try.
Anon.
558.
Don’t worry, don’t panic, don’t let go.
Anon.
559.
Don't think about failure. Think about the chances you miss
when you don’t even try.
Anon.
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
Anon.
556.
557.
560.
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Don't worry about upgrading your equipment. Upgrade your
body.
Anon.
Doubt sees the obstacles; faith sees the way. Doubt sees the
darkest night; faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a
step; faith soars on high. Doubt questions 'who believes?';
faith answers, 'I. ''
Anon.
563.
Dreams are works in progress.
Anon.
564.
Enthusiasm is a glimpse into the human soul.
Anon.
565.
Enthusiasm is the foundation of victory.
Anon.
566.
Evaluate, improve, adjust. In these continual actions are the
seeds of success.
562.
567.
568.
569.
570.
571.
572.
573.
574.
575.
576.
577.
Anon.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just
sit there.
Anon.
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries
with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.
Anon.
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm
for thirty minutes, another has it for thirty days, but it is the
man that has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
Anon.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by
the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
Anon.
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages
of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a
victory.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask.
Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take
action to get it.
Excellence can be achieved if you, risk more than others think
is safe, love more than others think is wise, dream more than
others think is practical, and expect more than others think is
possible.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
Expect the people you love to be better. It helps them to
become better. But don't get upset when they fail. It helps
them keep trying.
Anon.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you
wanted.
Anon.
Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is
not to try.
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the
light.
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578.
579.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, though checkered with failure, than to take rank
with those poor souls, who neither enjoy much or suffer
much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows
neither victory nor defeat.
Follow your dream, take one step at a time and, despite the
challenges, continue to climb.
Anon.
Anon.
580.
Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.
Anon.
581.
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
Anon.
582.
Forget yourself for others, and others will never forget you.
Anon.
583.
From the discontent of man the world’s best progress springs.
Anon.
584.
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
Anon.
585.
Get up one time more than you're knocked down.
Anon.
586.
Get up. Get moving. Get going.
Anon.
587.
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you see
farther
Anon.
588.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Anon.
589.
Go into situations expecting nothing and you always come out
getting something better than you had ever expected.
Anon.
Goal Setting: I Set Long Term Goals II Set Short Term Goals
III Set Objectives IV Prioritize the Objectives V Define and
Detail VI Do It VII Evaluate
Anon.
590.
591.
Goal: an aim or objective, the end toward which effort is
directed. Resolution: The quality of not allowing difficulties or
opposition to affect one’s purpose.
592.
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
593.
God blessed you with unique talents and abilities, and you
have used those gifts well! You've taken nothing for granted;
rather, you have worked hard to prepare for a challenging
future.
594.
595.
596.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with.
Success depends on which one you use; heads you win, tails,
you lose.
Anon.
Good judgment is the result of experience and experience is
the result of bad judgment.
Anon.
Greediness often defeats its own ends, by making us scratch
for every trifle when we should dig for gold alone.
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597.
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Happiness exists when the things we believe in are consistent
with the things we do.
Anon.
Happiness is having dreams; success is making those dreams
come true.
Anon.
599.
He never expected to lose.
Anon.
600.
He who angers you controls you!
Anon.
601.
He who never fell never climbed.
Anon.
602.
He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who
does one should never remember it.
Anon.
603.
Holding on to a hurt creates more hurt.
Anon.
604.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Anon.
605.
Hope is the pillar of the world.
Anon.
606.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the
impossible.
Anon.
598.
607.
608.
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home
you wish they were.
even when
Anon.
How a man plays the game shows something of his character,
how he loses shows all of it.
Anon.
How can you expect success 100 percent of the time if you
don't always give 100 percent?
Anon.
How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb? QA
testers don't change anything. They just report that it's dark.
Anon.
Humans are interesting creatures, when given everything
they need, they can't live through hardships. But when given
very little they surpass every hardship.
Anon.
612.
Hurt people hurt people. Whole people heal people.
Anon.
613.
I am never a failure until I begin blaming others.
Anon.
614.
I believe that either you control your attitude or it controls
you.
609.
610.
611.
615.
616.
617.
Anon.
I believe that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean
they don't love each other And just because they don't argue,
it doesn't mean they do.
Anon.
I believe that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to
hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for
that.
Anon.
I believe that we are responsible for what we do, no matter
how we feel.
Anon.
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618.
I believe that we don't have to change friends if we
understand that friends change.
Anon.
I believe that you can do something in an instant that will
give you heartache for life.
Anon.
620.
I believe that you can keep going long after you can't.
Anon.
621.
I believe that you should always leave loved ones with loving
words. It may be the last time you see them.
Anon.
619.
622.
623.
I believe that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It
could change your life forever.
I believe that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by
people who don't even know you.
624.
I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.
625.
I haven't failed; I've found ten thousand ways that don't
work.
626.
627.
628.
629.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
I hope your dreams take you, to the corners of your smiles,
to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your
opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has
ever known.
Anon.
If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way you were
told.
Anon.
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him.
Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
Anon.
If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is
fantasy.
Anon.
630.
If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done.
Anon.
631.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Anon.
632.
If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will
believe them.
Anon.
If you can get involved, you can make it happen. If you can
give, you will be rewarded with the taking. If you can climb,
you can climb even higher. Envision it; your success is in the
making.
Anon.
634.
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
Anon.
635.
If you didn't write it down, it didn't happen.
Anon.
636.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've
always got.
Anon.
If you don't have a dream, then you'll never have a dream
come true.
Anon.
633.
637.
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639.
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you
there.
If you don't put limits on yourself, you can always keep
striving. You might amaze yourself with what you discover
you can do. If you want to reach out for happiness, don't ever
forget these words: You can go as far as your dreams can
take you.
Anon.
Anon.
640.
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.
Anon.
641.
If you live your dreams, you'll never have to wake up.
Anon.
642.
If you love what you do, you won't work a day in your life.
Anon.
643.
If you say no to everything, nothing will change.
Anon.
644.
If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad
architecture.
Anon.
If you trust the winner within you, you will win. If you can
keep your courage, you will go so far. If you follow your
ambitions, your course will guide you toward a ladder that
you can climb to your stars.
Anon.
If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing
today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.
Anon.
647.
If you work at the parts the whole will be a success.
Anon.
648.
If you’re speaking and not getting a reaction, well, you are
just making a speech
Anon.
649.
If your life is free of failures, you aren’t taking enough risks.
Anon.
650.
If your mind can conceive it and your heart can believe it, you
can achieve it.
Anon.
645.
646.
651.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up
somewhere else.
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652.
I'm a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have Holy
Spirit Power. The dye has been cast. I have stepped over the
line and the decision has been made. I am a disciple of His. I
won't look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still. My
past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is
secure. I'm finished and done with low living, sight walking,
small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tame
visions, worldly talking, cheap giving, and dwarfed goals. I no
longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions,
platitudes or popularity. I don't have to be right, first
recognized, praised, regarded or rewarded. I now live by
faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, am lifted up by
prayer and labor by power. My face is set, my gate is fast, my
goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way rough, my
companions few, my guide reliable, my mission clear. I
cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away,
turned back, deluded or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of
sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate
at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or
meander in the maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, shut up,
let up until I've stayed up. I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go
till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know, work till He
stops me, and when He comes to get His own, He will have no
problem recognizing me. My colors will be clear for "I am not
ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God for the
salvation of everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16)
653.
Impossible things are happening every day.
654.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely
loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
655.
In life it’s the rebounds that make the difference.
Anon.
656.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the
stream always wins; not through strength, but through
persistence.
Anon.
657.
In the race for quality there is no finish line.
Anon.
658.
Interest is the greatest teacher.
Anon.
659.
Invent yourself every day.
Anon.
660.
It ain’t the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight
in the dog.
661.
Anon.
It had long since come to my attention that people of
accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to
them. They went out and happened to things.
Anon.
662.
It is a long hard road to overnight success.
Anon.
663.
It is better to fail at something that will ultimately succeed,
than to succeed at something that will ultimately fail.
Anon.
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665.
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It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds
pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the
opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
Anon.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of
yesterday are the hopes of today, and the realities of
tomorrow.
Anon.
It is hard to soar with the eagles, when you're living with a
bunch of turkeys!
Anon.
It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion
toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there
is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.
Anon.
668.
It is not enough that I succeed. Others must fail.
Anon.
669.
It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines
your altitude.
Anon.
It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to
take no part in it.
Anon.
It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some
grim determination, if you want to reach the goal. It takes a
deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what
the battle, if you really want to win. There's no easy path to
glory, there's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it,
is no simple parlor game; but its prizes call for fighting, for
endurance and for grit; for a rugged disposition and don't
know when to quit.
Anon.
672.
It's a dream until you write it down, and then it’s a goal.
Anon.
673.
It's a time of hope, for all your plans to work out, and to wish
for your dearest dreams, to turn into reality.
Anon.
674.
It's easier to fly if you take things lightly.
Anon.
675.
It's not how many times you fall down; it's how many times
you get back up.
Anon.
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think
you're not.
Anon.
677.
It's the last inch that counts.
Anon.
678.
Keep an open mind.
Anon.
679.
Keep company with those who make you better.
Anon.
680.
Keep score with results.
Anon.
681.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Anon.
682.
Know where you started. From there, you can go anywhere.
Anon.
666.
667.
670.
671.
676.
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683.
Leadership is action, not position.
Anon.
684.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting
difficulties, passing from one step of success to another,
forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Anon.
685.
Life does not require us to be the biggest or the best, it asks
only that we try.
Anon.
686.
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
Anon.
687.
Life is full of choices. Make some.
Anon.
688.
Life is full of ups and downs. The trick is to enjoy the ups and
have courage during the downs.
Anon.
689.
Life is lived in the present. Yesterday has gone, tomorrow is
yet to be. Today is the miracle.
Anon.
690.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Anon.
691.
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to
determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles
as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Anon.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever.
Anon.
Live your life in such a way that those who know you but
don't know God will come to know God because they know
you.
Anon.
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a
state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no
peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing
these demands.
Anon.
695.
Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.
Anon.
696.
Make what progress you can in each moment, on each day.
Anon.
697.
Make yesterday a stepping stone, today a new beginning,
tomorrow a limitless possibility.
692.
693.
694.
Anon.
698.
Make your own way.
Anon.
699.
Many aspire to change the world but few realize that
everyone accomplishes that goal. Each day you live you are
changing something. Rather than simply changing the world,
one should aspire to make a positive change with each action
they commit.
Anon.
700.
Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue
learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp,
and you will never become too old to appreciate life.
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701.
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May today mark the beginning of many new joys and
accomplishments, and a continuation of all of the good things
that you have already achieved.
702.
'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
703.
Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of
them have jobs.
Anon.
704.
Move. Go forward or backward, whatever it takes; just move.
705.
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already
thinks I am.
706.
Anon.
Never a horse that couldn't be rode. Never a rider that
couldn't be throwed.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
707.
Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.
Anon.
708.
Never let defeat have the last word.
Anon.
709.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Anon.
710.
Never swap horses crossing a stream.
Anon.
711.
Never wait for the proper mood to start a thing, nor until the
spirit moves you. Make your own mood. Make your own spirit.
How? ACT. Do something - anything. Inspiration seldom
generates action. Action always creates inspiration.
Anon.
712.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Anon.
713.
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations
unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Anon.
714.
Nothing is ever achieved that stays in a dream. Take action.
Anon.
715.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take
your eyes off your goals.
Anon.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your
goals.
Anon.
Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to
improve.
Anon.
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the
freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away,
so knowledge sort of accumulates,
Anon.
One cannot discover new oceans until one has the courage to
lose the sight of land.
Anon.
720.
One clear idea is too precious to lose.
Anon.
721.
One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream
fulfilled, lives not as a man but as an instrument of destiny.
Anon.
716.
717.
718.
719.
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722.
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
Anon.
723.
Only those who push too far, see how far they can go.
Anon.
724.
Opportunities are seldom labeled.
Anon.
725.
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people
think of using it.
Anon.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When you
don’t know what harbor you’re aiming for, no wind is the right
wind.
Anon.
727.
Pain and suffering is inevitable, it’s misery that’s optional.
Anon.
728.
People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become
old.
Anon.
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to
be, not what you nag them to be.
Anon.
726.
729.
730.
731.
732.
People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan
to do.
People with goals succeed because they make maps to their
destination.
Anon.
Anon.
Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you
can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your
seat, and there you are.
Anon.
733.
Procrastination is the key to flexibility
Anon.
734.
Promise and then perform.
Anon.
735.
Put your future in good hands, your own.
Anon.
736.
Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the
way.
Anon.
Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most
glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.
Anon.
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your
intentions. You may have a heart of gold
but so does a
hard-boiled egg.
Anon.
737.
738.
739.
740.
741.
Risk more than others think is safe ~ care more than others
think is wise ~ dream more than others think is practical ~
expect more than others think is possible.
School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship
will last.
See things as you would have them be. Instead of as they
are.
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Anon.
Anon.
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742.
Seize the day.
Anon.
743.
Set your course. The important thing is where you want to go
from here.
Anon.
Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to
encourage you.
Anon.
Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your
compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point,
its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the
darkest nights and fiercest storms.
Anon.
746.
Smile. It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
Anon.
747.
Some dream of doing great things, while others stay awake
and get on with it.
Anon.
748.
Some goals are so worthy that it is glorious even to fail.
Anon.
749.
Some men can run the fastest, jump the highest, or lift the
heaviest, but no man has the corner on ambition, desire, and
hustle.
744.
745.
750.
751.
752.
753.
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and
work hard at it.
Anon.
Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, others stay
awake and do them.
Anon.
Someone doing it often interrupts the person saying it cannot
be done
Anon.
Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to
that place where you don't have to be anything else.
754.
Stay focused, stay curious; do what you say you will do.
755.
Stay in the game when life throws you a curve. With
determination and pluck anything is possible.
756.
757.
Anon.
Stereotypes are devices for saving a biased person the
trouble of learning.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
Straight and steady. Know where you’re going and where you
want to be.
Anon.
758.
Strive for greatness in each endeavor.
Anon.
759.
Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.
Anon.
760.
Success is a laboratory. Experiment.
Anon.
761.
Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.
Anon.
762.
Success is more attitude then aptitude.
Anon.
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763.
Success is never final, and failure is never fatal; it's courage
that counts.
Anon.
764.
Success is never final; and failure never fatal.
Anon.
765.
Success is not the destination, its the journey.
Anon.
766.
Success is rooted in vision. Always affirm that you will
succeed.
Anon.
767.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Anon.
768.
Success is the marriage of motivation and will.
Anon.
769.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people
keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Anon.
770.
Surpass yourself.
Anon.
771.
Take big steps.
Anon.
772.
Take heart. Get out of your own way.
Anon.
773.
The actual is limited, the possible immense.
Anon.
774.
The best things in life are not free.
Anon.
775.
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Anon.
776.
The best way to have what you want, is to want what you
have.
777.
The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.
778.
The biggest mistake you can make is to believe you work for
someone else.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
779.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Anon.
780.
The challenge may not be easy, but it is possible.
Anon.
781.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day
you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the
top.
782.
783.
784.
785.
Anon.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that
little extra.
Anon.
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some
pushing.
Anon.
The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to
count them.
Anon.
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be
careful how you treat it, for every step will show.
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The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but
you still have to mow it.
Anon.
787.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Anon.
788.
The greatest hurdle is convincing yourself that what you want
is possible.
Anon.
789.
The greatest risk is the one not taken.
Anon.
790.
The greatest victory is a victory won without fighting.
Anon.
791.
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of
everything. They just make the best of everything.
Anon.
The hardest thing in life, is letting go of what you thought was
real.
Anon.
793.
The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
Anon.
794.
The heights of great men were not attained in sudden flight,
but while others slept, they toiled upwards through the night.
Anon.
The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is
making them come true.
Anon.
796.
The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
Anon.
797.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of
wonder.
Anon.
792.
795.
798.
799.
800.
801.
802.
803.
804.
805.
806.
The man who believes he can do something is probably right,
and so is the man who believes he can't.
The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come
in has already missed the boat.
Anon.
Anon.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders
from one who does.
Anon.
The mind is capable of anything because everything is in it, all
the past as well as the future.
Anon.
The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are
so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a
dandelion would be the most startling event in the world.
Anon.
The more clear you are on what you want, the more power
you will have.
Anon.
The more they tell me I can't the more determined I am to do
it.
Anon.
The only time you find achievement before work is in a
dictionary.
The oppressed of the Earth, rising, make their own law.
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Anon.
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807.
808.
809.
The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming
from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.
Anon.
The person who starts out going nowhere, generally gets
there.
Anon.
The person who wins may have been counted out several
times, but didn't hear the referee.
Anon.
810.
The power is within you.
Anon.
811.
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Anon.
812.
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the
conduct of one hour.
Anon.
813.
The reward of labor is life.
Anon.
814.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Anon.
815.
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking
places.
Anon.
816.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Anon.
817.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Anon.
818.
The view from the summit is worth the effort.
Anon.
819.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the
way you treat them is what they become.
820.
Anon.
The young graduate is discovering that among the
necessaries of life, the most important is living.
Anon.
There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy.
And its only reward is that it's easy.
Anon.
822.
There are no shortcuts to achieving worthwhile dreams.
Anon.
823.
There are no shortcuts to Life's greatest achievements.
Anon.
824.
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who
can measure values.
Anon.
821.
825.
826.
827.
828.
There are some who are born scared, afraid, and not willing
to show some sack or guts. We eat those people for
breakfast.
There are three ways you can get to the top of a tree: 1) sit
on an acorn 2) make friends with a bird 3) climb it.
Anon.
Anon.
There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already
within you
just reach deep into yourself!
Anon.
There is no progress without some discontent and discomfort.
Anon.
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829.
There is no right way to do something wrong.
Anon.
830.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Anon.
831.
Think positive.
Anon.
832.
Throw yourself into the wonders of the world.
Anon.
833.
To be sensitive is to feel the thoughts and hearts of others as
only you would want yours felt.
Anon.
To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person
you are.
Anon.
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, To weep is to risk
appearing sentimental, To reach out to another is to risk
involvement, To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true
self, To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk
their loss, To love is to risk not being loved in return, To hope
is to risk despair, To try is to risk to failure. But risks must be
taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is
nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, But he cannot
learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude, he
is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who
risks is free.
Anon.
To succeed, all you need is the knowhow, the will, and the
ignorance
Anon.
837.
Triumph is “umph” added to “try”.
Anon.
838.
Use your experience to build your dreams.
Anon.
839.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a
nightmare.
Anon.
Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is
aimless. Vision with action will achieve.
Anon.
841.
Wait it out. Sometimes victory goes to the one left standing.
Anon.
842.
Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your
words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they
become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your
character. Watch your character for it will become your
destiny.
834.
835.
836.
840.
Anon.
843.
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
Anon.
844.
We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this
world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their
imagination far ahead of the crowd.
Anon.
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845.
We believe that to confront the challenges our communities
face, people- - not just their advocates- - need to define
issues and develop strategies for action. [We] foster
leadership, literacy and language development among its
participants and provides them an enriching job experience
that prepares them for college and for careers in community
organizing, advocacy and services delivery.
Anon.
846.
We measure what we treasure.
Anon.
847.
We only learn our limits by going beyond them.
Anon.
848.
We only learn our limits by trying to go beyond them.
Anon.
849.
What gets measured is what gets done.
Anon.
850.
What good are you doing today?
Anon.
851.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are the tiny
matters compared to what lies within us.
Anon.
What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write
them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration
all year long.
Anon.
853.
What you must do usually can be done.
Anon.
854.
When all you have is no chance, you still have that.
Anon.
855.
When it comes down to it, you have only your intuition to
guide your actions. And you never know the outcome until
you act.
Anon.
852.
856.
When people are free to do what they want they usually
imitate one another.
Anon.
857.
When shall we live, if not now?
Anon.
858.
When the cart stops do you whip the cart or whip the ox?
Anon.
859.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Anon.
860.
When two men in a business always agree, one of them is
unnecessary.
Anon.
861.
When you fall, don't get up empty handed.
Anon.
862.
When you walk what you talk, people listen.
Anon.
863.
Where are you going? What are you doing to get there?
Anon.
864.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Anon.
865.
Where you've been is not half as important as where you're
going.
Anon.
Wherever you are, be there.
Anon.
866.
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Wherever your challenges lead you, there is something to
learn there.
Anon.
868.
While there's life, there's hope!
Anon.
869.
Who ever does not respect confidence will never find
happiness in their path.
Anon.
Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
Anon.
871.
Winners make goals; losers make excuses!
Anon.
872.
Winners make it happen, losers watch it happen.
Anon.
873.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
Anon.
874.
Without strategy, there is no succeeding in life.
Anon.
875.
Without the voice of students, schools serve no purpose. They
are nothing but institutions where adults run and tell you
what you need to know in order to continue this tradition of,
this cycle of “we have master’s degrees and we know what’s
best for you so just shut up and deal with it."
Anon.
870.
876.
877.
878.
879.
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming
wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and
plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!.
You are all champions in your own way. That doesn't mean
you have to be number 1 or be the best. Just do your best. If
you aren't first, then make those people ahead of you break
records by pushing them with your personal best. Consider
for a moment what we achieve from athletics, the sheer fun
of competing, the building of a healthy and alert mind and
body, stamina, courage, perseverance, dedication,
commitment, selflessness and most importantly, the will to
excel.
You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it.
But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your
shoulder.
Anon.
Anon.
Anon.
You can hire people to work for you, but you must win their
hearts to have them work with you.
Anon.
You can’t catch a fish unless you put a line in the water. You
can’t reach your goals unless you actually do something.
Anon.
You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when
you're looking down on him.
Anon.
882.
You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Anon.
883.
You can't reach your goals if you haven't set any.
Anon.
880.
881.
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884.
You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay
awake days.
Anon.
885.
You get what you expect. Believe in your dreams.
Anon.
886.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what
the circumstance.
Anon.
You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you
start blaming someone else.
Anon.
888.
You never fail, you simply produce results. Learn from these.
Anon.
889.
You never really lose until you stop trying.
Anon.
890.
You’ll accomplish more if you start now.
Anon.
891.
You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.
Anon.
892.
Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers.
Anon.
893.
Your mind is like a parachute, it works best when it's opened.
Anon.
894.
Your problem is another's solution; Your solution will be his
problem.
Anon.
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your
education still continues.
Anon.
896.
Your world is as big as you make it.
Anon.
897.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is
only a detour.
Anon.
898.
Youth passes, but immaturity can last a lifetime.
Anon.
899.
A boat does not go forward if each is rowing his own way.
Anon. African
900.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Anon. African
901.
The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to
cut it up into little pieces.
Anon. African
902.
A wise man sometimes changes his mind, but a fool never.
Anon. Arabic
903.
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your
voice.
Anon. Arabic
904.
Go and wake up your cook.
Anon. Arabic
905.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has
everything.
Anon. Arabic
He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own
calamity light.
Anon. Arabic
887.
895.
906.
907.
By asking for the impossible we attain the best possible.
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If you are afraid of getting wet, you will never make a good
fisherman.
Anon. Armenian
Do not follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin
the trail.
Anon. Ashanti
910.
The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.
Anon. Belgian
911.
All things in this world are impermanent. They have the
nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this
truth brings true happiness.
909.
912.
You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only
teachers.
Anon. Buddhist
Anon. Buddhist
913.
A bad word whispered echoes a hundred miles.
Anon. Chinese
914.
A careful foot can step anywhere.
Anon. Chinese
915.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor people
perfected without trials.
Anon. Chinese
916.
A good teacher...better than a barrowful of books.
Anon. Chinese
917.
A jug fills drop by drop.
Anon. Chinese
918.
A king's riches cannot buy an extra year.
Anon. Chinese
919.
A sharp tongue or pen can kill without a knife.
Anon. Chinese
920.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is
worth a month's study of books.
Anon. Chinese
921.
A whitewashed crow soon shows black again.
Anon. Chinese
922.
An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time.
Anon. Chinese
923.
At birth we bring our nothing; at death we leave with the
same.
Anon. Chinese
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing
still.
Anon. Chinese
925.
Beat the drum inside the house to spare the neighbors.
Anon. Chinese
926.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
Anon. Chinese
927.
Better lean and good than fat and evil.
Anon. Chinese
928.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Anon. Chinese
929.
Blame yourself as you blame others; forgive others as you
forgive yourself.
Anon. Chinese
930.
Climb the mountains to see lowlands.
Anon. Chinese
931.
Determination tempers the sword of your character.
Anon. Chinese
924.
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932.
Divide an orange, it tastes just as good.
Anon. Chinese
933.
Dogs have no prejudice against the poor.
Anon. Chinese
934.
Don't waste your hour the sun sets soon.
Anon. Chinese
935.
Easier to rule a nation than a child.
Anon. Chinese
936.
Enough shovels of earth a mountain. Enough pails of water a
river.
Anon. Chinese
937.
Even the smallest action creates a ripple of potential.
Anon. Chinese
938.
Forget the favors given; remember those received.
Anon. Chinese
939.
Great doubts, deep wisdom...small doubts, little wisdom.
Anon. Chinese
940.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Anon. Chinese
941.
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Anon. Chinese
942.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does
not remains a fool forever.
Anon. Chinese
He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey.
He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no
one has arrived.
Anon. Chinese
944.
His virtues exceed his talents, a superior man.
Anon. Chinese
945.
Honest scales and full measure hurt no one.
Anon. Chinese
946.
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old
one.
943.
947.
I heard is good; I saw is better.
948.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a
man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Anon. Chinese
Anon. Chinese
Anon. Chinese
949.
If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them.
Anon. Chinese
950.
If the first words fail, ten thousand will then not avail.
Anon. Chinese
951.
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up
where we are headed.
Anon. Chinese
952.
If you always give, you will always have.
Anon. Chinese
953.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning
for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime,
educate people.
Anon. Chinese
If you hurry through long days, you will hurry through short
years.
Anon. Chinese
If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two.
Anon. Chinese
954.
955.
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If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want
happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a
month — get married. If you want happiness for a year —
inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help
someone else.
Anon. Chinese
957.
If you want no one to know, don't do it.
Anon. Chinese
958.
If you want your dinner, don't insult the cook.
Anon. Chinese
959.
In a flood of words, surely some mistakes.
Anon. Chinese
960.
In bed be wife and husband, in the hall each other's honored
guest.
Anon. Chinese
Instead of comparing how much or how little care and
attention a person deserves, each one of us should strive to
give love without reserve - the more we give, the more we
have.
Anon. Chinese
It is common to take into account just one-side of an
experience and to stop looking for a richer understanding of
our life and the world around us. It is also not difficult to
become lost in the magnitude of negative things occurring in
our world, but it is important to find our own light and to give
ourselves to illuminating the darkness.
Anon. Chinese
It is not the police or a higher law that should be feared as a
consequence of an unconscious expression of anger, but the
internal ramifications that expression has on the balance of
the soul.
Anon. Chinese
Laws control a lesser person; right conduct controls a greater
one.
Anon. Chinese
965.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Anon. Chinese
966.
Many a good face under a ragged hat.
Anon. Chinese
967.
My life a candle in the wind...frost on the leaves.
Anon. Chinese
968.
Neither fortunes nor flowers last forever.
Anon. Chinese
969.
No guests at home, no hosts abroad.
Anon. Chinese
970.
No horse can wear two saddles.
Anon. Chinese
971.
Nurture the plant one year ten days of flowers.
Anon. Chinese
972.
O eggs, don't fight with rocks.
Anon. Chinese
973.
Our actions are not always in alignment with our thoughts
and inner process. Sometimes we judge a person based on
their behaviour in one event and fail to consider the whole
individual.
961.
962.
963.
964.
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974.
Simple to open a shop; another thing to keep it open.
Anon. Chinese
975.
Slow work, fine work.
Anon. Chinese
976.
Sometimes we are not aware of things going wrong or our
unaware state of being until we experience a glimpse of true
insight and revelation. If we do not feel our full power and
potential then it might be because the right stimulant to push
us into action has not come around… it might be waiting for
the first step off the ground before revealing the path ahead.
Anon. Chinese
977.
Stare at the profit and step in the pitfall.
Anon. Chinese
978.
Stout men, not stout walls, make the stout city.
Anon. Chinese
979.
Take chances. When rowing forward, the boat may rock.
Anon. Chinese
980.
Taking action and making a mistake is better than not taking
action at all.
Anon. Chinese
981.
Talk doesn't cook rice.
Anon. Chinese
982.
Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself.
Anon. Chinese
983.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
Anon. Chinese
984.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man
perfected without trials.
Anon. Chinese
985.
The journey is the reward.
Anon. Chinese
986.
The judge with seven reasons states only one in court.
Anon. Chinese
987.
The man who moved a mountain was the one who began
carrying away small stones.
Anon. Chinese
988.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt
the person doing it.
Anon. Chinese
989.
The pine stays green in winter...wisdom in hardship.
Anon. Chinese
990.
The ripest fruit falls by itself.
Anon. Chinese
991.
The swiftest horse can't overtake a word once spoken.
Anon. Chinese
992.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Anon. Chinese
993.
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds
itself to the pitcher.
Anon. Chinese
994.
The wise listens to her mind, the foolish to the mob.
Anon. Chinese
995.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to
truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Anon. Chinese
Three feet of ice were not frozen in a day.
Anon. Chinese
996.
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997.
Tile tossed over the wall...who knows where it will fall?.
Anon. Chinese
998.
To be heard afar, bang your gong on a hilltop.
Anon. Chinese
999.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way
of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
1000. To build it took one hundred years; to destroy it one day.
1001. To declare ownership or rights to something is to state that
the universe somehow lacks that thing, but to let go of the
idea of securing ownership is to accept the infinite abundance
that is available to all and can never cease.
Anon. Chinese
Anon. Chinese
Anon. Chinese
1002. To have principles first have courage.
Anon. Chinese
1003. To know others, know yourself first.
Anon. Chinese
1004. To know the road ahead, ask those returning.
Anon. Chinese
1005. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's
own in the midst of abundance.
Anon. Chinese
1006. To stop drinking, study a drunkard while you are sober.
Anon. Chinese
1007. To succeed, consult three old people.
Anon. Chinese
1008. To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a
tree to catch a fish.
Anon. Chinese
1009. Touch black paint, have black fingers.
Anon. Chinese
1010. Watch over workers at their labors, not their meals.
Anon. Chinese
1011. Watching chess games in silence...a superior person.
Anon. Chinese
1012. We can study until old age...and still not finish.
Anon. Chinese
1013. What you don't see, you don't desire.
Anon. Chinese
1014. When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a
decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate
people.
Anon. Chinese
1015. When the waters drop, the rocks appear.
Anon. Chinese
1016. When there are no fish in one spot, cast your net in another.
Anon. Chinese
1017. While you are bargaining, conceal your coin.
Anon. Chinese
1018. With virtue you can't be completely poor; without it you can't
be truly rich.
Anon. Chinese
1019. Without sorrows no one becomes a saint.
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1020. You can bring attention to a desired goal, but don't expect to
achieve it overnight. Each moment of conscious intention is a
raindrop that will in time turn into a stream, and then a river
flowing to its destination.
Anon. Chinese
1021. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished
by your anger.
Anon. Chinese
1022. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
Anon. Chinese
1023. Your heaven, dreams, and purpose all exist within, not in the
clutches of a divine external force.
Anon. Chinese
1024. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your
heart give yourself to it.
Anon. Chinese
1025. We will be known by the tracks we leave behind.
Anon. Dakotan
1026. The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see
it.
1027. He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his
journey behind him.
Anon. Danish
Anon. Dutch
1028. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
Anon. English
1029. All things are difficult before they are easy.
Anon. English
1030. As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Anon. English
1031. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Anon. English
1032. It won’t work. We know because we haven’t tried it.
Anon. English
1033. One of these days is none of these days.
Anon. English
1034. Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. The times change,
and we change with them.
Anon. English
1035. The shortest answer is doing.
Anon. English
1036. Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it.
1037. Everyone according to their talent and every talent according
to its work.
Anon. Ethiopian
Anon. French
1038. To do, one must be doing.
Anon. French
1039. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Anon. French
1040. Charity sees the need, not the cause.
Anon. German
1041. To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.
Anon. German
1042. Too aim is not enough, you must hit!
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1043. A cynic is an idealist turned inside out.
Anon. Graffiti
1044. Expect people to be people.
Anon. Graffiti
1045. If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.
Anon. Graffiti
1046. If we don’t change direction, then we’re likely to end up
where we’re headed.
Anon. Graffiti
1047. Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
Anon. Graffiti
1048. Only the truth is revolutionary.
Anon. Graffiti
1049. Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the
impossible.
Anon. Graffiti
1050. People in groups tend to agree on courses of action which, as
individuals, they know are stupid.
Anon. Graffiti
1051. Sorry, we are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the
faucet.
1052. Steps in a project: 1. Wild enthusiasm; 2. Disillusionment;
3. Total confusion; 4. Search for the guilty; 5. Punishment of
the innocent; 6. Promotion of nonparticipants
1053. Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break
your heart.
1054. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
1055. The more heavily a man is supposed to be taxed, the more
power he has to escape being taxed.
Anon. Graffiti
Anon. Graffiti
Anon. Graffiti
Anon. Graffiti
Anon. Graffiti
1056. We have the best government money can buy.
Anon. Graffiti
1057. We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the
impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so
long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with
nothing.
Anon. Graffiti
1058. The net of the sleeper catches fish.
Anon. Greek
1059. We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of
wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.
Anon. Gypsy
1060. One finger cannot lift a pebble.
Anon. Hopi
1061. No one's head aches when he is comforting another.
1062. You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your
mind.
Anon. Indian
Anon. Irish
1063. After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Anon. Italian
1064. Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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1065. Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Anon. Italian
1066. Often he who does too much does too little.
Anon. Italian
1067. To him who is determined it remains only to act.
Anon. Italian
1068. Fall seven times, stand up eight.
1069. Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your
intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a
hard-boiled egg.
Anon. Japanese
Anon. Japanese
1070. Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without
vision is a nightmare.
Anon. Japanese
1071. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a
nightmare.
Anon. Japanese
1072. When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
Anon. Jewish
1073. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Anon. Latin
1074. If there is no wind, row.
Anon. Latin
1075. He who goes to bed hungry dreams of pancakes.
Anon. Maltese
1076. Hope dies last. (La esperanza muere al último.)
Anon. Mexican
1077. He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
1078. Under capitalism, it’s dog eat dog. Under Communism, it’s
just the opposite.
Anon. Persian
Anon. Polish
1079. Control your emotion or it will control you.
Anon. Samurai
1080. It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.
Anon. Spanish
1081. Standing is still going.
Anon. Swahili
1082. The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.
Anon. Swahili
1083. Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less,
say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are
yours.
1084. Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
1085. Good actions are never lost.
Anon. Swedish
Anon. Swedish
Anon. Turkish
1086. No matter how far you’ve gone down the wrong road, turn
back.
Anon. Turkish
1087. There is no idleness without a thousand troubles.
Anon. Welsh
1088. There is no prosperity without adversity.
Anon. Welsh
1089. If you can, do!
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1090. If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.
Anon. Yiddish
1091. Words show the wit of a man, but actions his meaning.
Anon. Yiddish
1092. Stretch your hands as far as they reach; grab all that you can
grab.
1093. When you reach the top, keep climbing.
1094. I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and
selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them
and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply
couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone
said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those
words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change.
Don't change...I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive.
And suddenly I changed!
1095. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease
to grow.
1096. Don't fear change, embrace it.
Anon. Yoruba
Anon. Zen
Anthony de Mello
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Anthony J. D'angelo
1097. The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a
very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
1098. If you want to build a ship, do not begin calling on people to
gather the wood and arranging all the necessary equipment,
do not assign jobs, do not organize the work. First, make
people long for the distant boundless sea. As soon as they
feel this desire, they will set to work and will build the ship.
1099. You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you
have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more
to take away.
1100. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is
essential is invisible to the eye.
1101. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
outward together in the same direction.
1102. There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
1103. True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the
zest of creating things new.
1104. Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake.
Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give
your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
Anthony Jay
Antoine de Saint
Exupéry
Antoine de Saint
Exupéry
Antoine de SaintExupéry
Antoine De SaintExupéry
Antoinette Bosco
1105. One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures
without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov
1106. Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
Antonio Smith
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1107. Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.
1108. Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou
shalt never do amiss.
1109. Failure is not an option.
Anzia Yezierska
Apocrypha
Apollo 13
1110. We each build our own future. We are the architects of our
own fortunes.
1111. There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of
humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a
dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
1112. The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big
thing.
Appius Claudius
Caecus
Archibald MacLeish
Archilochus
1113. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and
desire.
Aristotle
1114. Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
1115. Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
1116. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
1117. Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
1118. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who
conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
1119. It is not once nor twice but times without number that the
same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle
1120. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
1121. Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he
is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Aristotle
1122. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a
Details! particular way. We become just by performing just
actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by
performing brave actions.
1123. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
1124. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act,
but a habit.
1125. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act,
but a habit.
1126. Well begun is half done.
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1127. The secret of success is to know something nobody else
knows.
1128. Any change, even a change for the better, is always
accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
1129. An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than
the brain cell it occupied.
1130. In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where
the goalposts are.
1131. Many a false step is taken by standing still.
Aristotle Onassis
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Glasow
Arnold Glasow
Arnold Glasow
1132. A life which does not go into action is a failure.
Arnold J. Toynbee
1133. It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle
of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming
not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal
beyond it.
Arnold J. Toynbee
1134. Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against
you.
Arnold Palmer
1135. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop
your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide
not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger
1136. The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the
fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you
really believe 100 percent.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger
1137. Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can
only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the
imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan
for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold Toynbee
1138. Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of
the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter
1139. There is a difference between interest and commitment.
When you're interested in doing something, you do it only
when circumstances permit. When you're committed to
something, you accept no excuses, only results.
Art Turock
1140. True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not
the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge
to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe
1141. Every clarification breeds new questions.
Arthur Bloch
1142. While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for
more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd
moments...the mand who is always killing time is really killing
his own chances in life.
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1143. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
1144. I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions
are certainly worth thinking about.
Arthur C. Clarke
1145. The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond
them into the impossible.
1146. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go
beyond them into the impossible.
1147. When a distinguished but elderly statesman states that
something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he
states that something is impossible, he is very probably
wrong.
1148. It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
1149. The little things are infinitely important.
1150. Enthusiasm moves the world.
1151. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a
good example; to a father, deference; to your mother,
conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect;
to all men, charity.
1152. If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he
surely meant us to stick it out.
1153. The job is to ask questions. it always was and to ask them as
inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise
answers with a certain humility.
1154. Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an
unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
1155. All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur Calwell
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur James
Balfour
Arthur James
Balfour
Arthur Koestler
Arthur Miller
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur
Schopenhauer
1156. Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty
solitude.
Arthur
Schopenhauer
1157. There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly
planted in the human head if only you begin to inculcate it
before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of
great solemnity.
Arthur
Schopenhauer
1158. Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries
on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur
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1159. Humankind is designed for exercise and not rest, hence the
legs located below the torso. If designed for rest, we would at
best have castors.
1160. It is not enough to get things done. They must be done right.
1161. The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you
want to know what people believe, don't read what they
write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what
they do.
1162. Good things don't come to those who wait, they come to
those who want something so bad, they can't wait for it.
1163. Superficial goals lead to superficial results.
1164. The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of
a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else
does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his
mistakes.
Arthur Stewart
Arthur Twining
Hadley
Ashley Montagu
Ashton Kutcher
Attila the Hun
Aubrey Menen
1165. Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted.
Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to
battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.
Audre Lorde
1166. When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service
of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether
I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
1167. I dream, therefore I am.
August Strindberg
1168. Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is
something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal
progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted
energy.
August Strindberg
1169. A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it;
action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
1170. Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the
degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which
he'll rise.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
1171. The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the
rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
1172. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners
usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they
triumphed. They won because they refused to become
discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
1173. The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious
that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world
may write him down a failure.
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1174. Education is what survives when what has been learned has
been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
1175. The consequences of an act affect the probability of its
occurring again.
B. F. Skinner
1176. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what
you get.
1177. Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted
to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete
that ever lived.
B. R. Hayden
Babe Didrikson
Zaharias
1178. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
1179. Success or failure, gain or loss, must, therefore, depend upon
man's own exertions. The more he striveth, the greater will
be his progress. We fain would hope that the vernal showers
of the bounty of God may cause the flowers of true
understanding to spring from the soil of men's hearts, and
may wash them from all earthly defilements.
Baha'u'llah
1180. Begin with another's to end with your own.
Baltasar Gracian
1181. It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck,
even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian
1182. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or
some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We
are the change that we seek.
1183. Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain
poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's
only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than
yourself that you realize your true potential.
1184. Some people give time, some money, some their skills and
connections, some literally give their life's blood. But
everyone has something to give.
1185. You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it
is the only way.
1186. If you can't solve it, it's not a problem. It's reality.
1187. Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what
you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what
you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even
though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways
that are in harmony with your personal values. Making
choices based on what you believe, and not what others
believe.
1188. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a
difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they
bless you, the giver.
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush
Barbara Colorose
Barbara De Angelis
Barbara De Angelis
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1189. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you
have the power to change anything about yourself or your life
that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis
1190. The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they
learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw
through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood,
that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is,
many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly,
halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not
worth doing at all.
Barbara Ehrenreich
1191. The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you
hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its
roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
1192. What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the
road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver
1193. The real winners in life are the people who look at every
situation with an expectation that they can make it work or
make it better.
1194. Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about
swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water.
1195. Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is
just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually
be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and
perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty
minutes and watch your heart start beating.
1196. The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He
thinks little of what he can do.
1197. You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're
willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a
beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
1198. You don't have to get it right the first time.
1199. Ten years ago I saw peace as a tangible goal. Today I see
peace a little differently. Peacemakers, I have gradually
recognized, function in the world much like kidneys function
in our bodies, constantly, unendingly removing the wastes
and poisons which are an inevitable part of our lives. As long
as we live, the poisons of hate, injustice, and
misunderstanding will be produced, and peacemakers will be
needed to clean up the mess.
1200. The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
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Barbara Sher
Barbara Sher
Barbara Sher
Barbara Sher
Barbara Sher
Barbara Stanford
Baron De
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1201. I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the
top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just
performance.
1202. You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us
choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.
1203. If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect
to get there?
1204. The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.
1205. When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man
who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be
here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and
you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which
will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in
putting your arms not around the man but around the social
situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which
point they can become human too.
1206. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for
good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
1207. Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
1208. Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
1209. The greatest waste in the world is the difference between
what we are and what we could become.
1210. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
1211. It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most
victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is
defeated, it is finished when it surrenders.
1212. Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
1213. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out
of life is this: decide what you want.
Barry Bonds
Barry Munro
Basil S. Walsh
Bavee
Bayard Rustin
Beatrix Potter
Beca Allen
Belva Davis
Ben Herbster
Ben Jonson
Ben Stein
Ben Stein
Ben Stein
1214. Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
1215. The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too
many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead
of a tank car, a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They
expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland
1216. You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My
godmother used to say, "I don't want to rust out, I just want
to work out. " If you stand still long enough, people will throw
dirt on you.
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1217. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no
happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
1218. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no
happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
1219. I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin Disraeli
1220. In a progressive country change is constant; change is
inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli
1221. Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
1222. Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
Benjamin Disraeli
1223. Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its
existence on its stated purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
1224. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go
any higher than you think.
Benjamin Disraeli
1225. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
1226. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the
three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
1227. The health of people is really the foundation upon which all
their happiness and all their power as a state depend.
1228. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when it comes.
1229. The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
1230. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a
calamity not to dream.
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin E. Mays
1231. It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie
in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no
goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays
1232. It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in
not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to
reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it
is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to
capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to
capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a
disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim
is a sin.
Benjamin E. Mays
1233. What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind
there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you
love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities,
and be a member of the team.
1234. A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
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1235. Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security
deserves neither.
Benjamin Franklin
1236. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
1237. Don’t be dismayed by trifles or unavoidable delays.
Benjamin Franklin
1238. Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
1239. God helps them that helps themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
1240. He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin
1241. He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
1242. He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin
1243. Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a
sundial in the shade?
1244. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
1245. I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of
everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
1246. If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his
trouble.
Benjamin Franklin
1247. If you want a thing done, go. If not, send.
Benjamin Franklin
1248. Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
1249. Resolve to perform what you ought, then perform without fail
what you resolve.
1250. Say little, do much.
Benjamin Franklin
1251. Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of
everybody.
1252. Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
1253. There are two ways of being happy: we must either diminish
our wants or augment our means.
1254. To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones,
though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the
prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and
convince them that their interests will be promoted by the
proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.
1255. Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless
ease.
1256. We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall
all hang separately.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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1257. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
1258. Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
1259. When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
1260. While we may not be able to control all that happens to us,
we can control what happens inside us.
Benjamin Franklin
1261. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
1262. Without continual growth and progress, such words as
improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
1263. Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
1264. Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you
were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
1265. The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit
for doing them.
1266. We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or
kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete,
individualized, unique.
1267. Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to
reach.
1268. The more people have studied different methods of bringing
up children the more they have come to the conclusion that
what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing is
best after all.
Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Spock
1269. Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it
meaning.
Bergen Evans
1270. We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass
contentment looking for victory.
Bern Williams
1271. To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to
lose everything else.
1272. Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what
you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that
must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In
that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not
deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the
situation.
1273. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who
asked why.
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Bernard Baruch
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1274. Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have
committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and
public life have been the consequence of action without
thought.
Bernard Baruch
1275. To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty
of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That
is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test
your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds
1276. The bigger the planks, the bigger the cracks between them.
Bernard Kamoroff
1277. There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has
to go if there are no doors or windows he walks through a
wall.
1278. Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're
supposed to help you discover who you are.
1279. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners
usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they
triumphed. They won because they refused to become
discouraged by their defeats.
Bernard Malamud
Bernice Johnson
Reagon
Bertie C. Forbes
1280. None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.
Bertolt Brecht
1281. Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht
1282. Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
1283. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a
great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish
to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the
future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching
of the young.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1284. It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear
fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
Bertrand Russell
1285. One must care about a world one will never see.
Bertrand Russell
1286. One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and
credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to
the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in
the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to
the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be
to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the
spread of misinformation is more important than in former
times to the holders of power.
1287. The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the
stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent
folks are so full of doubts.
1288. The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the
absence of certainty.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
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1289. Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time.
1290. And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people
so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
1291. Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower
in the wrong season.
Bertrand Russell
Beth Henley
Bette Bao Lord
1292. Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
1293. Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
1294. For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to
begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way.
Something had to be got through first, some unfinished
business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life
would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles
were my life.
Bette Howland
1295. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the
first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with
glory.
Betty Smith
1296. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
1297. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if
you don’t try.
Beverly Sills
1298. When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the
flame of a lamp in a windless place.
1299. But I trusted in thee, O Lord; I said, Thou art my God. My
times are in thy hand.
Bhagavad Gita
Bible
1300. Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
Bible
1301. Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.
Bible
1302. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
Bible
1303. Go, and do thou likewise.
Bible
1304. Here am I; send me.
Bible
1305. I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why
should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?
Bible
1306. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Bible
1307. No matter what happens, God is always with me.
1308.
1309. The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
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1310. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine
own understanding; in all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He
shall direct thy paths.
1311. With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our
battles.
Bible
Bible
1312. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that
we should love one another.
Bible, 1 John 3:11
1313. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Bible, 1 John 4:18
1314. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God ...
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one
another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Bible, 1 John 4:7,
11-12
1315. Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony of
God in them.
Bible, 1 John 5:10a
1316. Your lives are echoing the Master’s Word .... The news of your
faith in God is out. We don’t even have to say anything
anymore – you’re the message!
1317. When you became a believer, you also became God’s
messenger. God wants to speak to the world through you.
Paul said, We speak the truth before God, as messengers of
God.
1318. And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
1319. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
1320. I will never leave nor forsake you.
1321. When will you ever learn that “believing” is useless without
doing what God wants you to? Faith that does not result in
good deeds is not real faith.
1322. “For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord, "they
are plans of good and not of disaster, to give you a future and
hope”.
1323. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
1324. Then said Jesus, "Father, forgive them; for they know not
what they do.”
1325. Treat others as you want them to treat you.
1326. As you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
1327. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye
shall not be condemned, forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.
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Thessalonians 1:8
Bible, 2 Corinthians
2:17b
Bible, Ephesians
4:32
Bible, Hebrews 12:1
Bible, Hebrews
13:14
Bible, James 2:20
Bible, Jeremiah 29
Bible, Leviticus
19:18, Matthew
22:39
Bible, Luke 23:34
Bible, Luke 6:31
Bible, Luke 6:31,
Matthew 7:12
Bible, Luke 6:37
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1328. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that
believeth.
1329. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but
lose their soul?
1330. For many are called, but few are chosen.
1331. Do to others what you would have them do to you.
1332. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you, do ye even so to them.
1333. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
1334. Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
I press on toward the goal ….
1335. Sadly, we never learn from a lot that happens to us. Of the
Israelites, the Bible says, over and over God rescued them,
but they never learned – until finally their sins destroyed
them.
1336. As a man thinketh, so is he.
1337. For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again.
Bible, Mark 9:23
Bible, Matthew 16:
26
Bible, Matthew
22:14
Bible, Matthew 7:12
Bible, Matthew 7:12
Bible, Philippians
13:4
Bible, Philippians
3:13-14
Bible, Proverbs
106:43
Bible, Proverbs
23:7
Bible, Proverbs
24:16
1338. While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn
from the experiences of others. There isn’t enough time to
learn everything in life by trial and error. We must learn from
the life lessons of one another. The Bible says, A warning
given by an experienced person to someone willing to listen is
more valuable than … jewelry made of the finest gold.
Bible, Proverbs
25:12
1339. Never tell your neighbors to wait until tomorrow if you can
help them now.
Bible, Proverbs
3:28
1340. Your Life Message includes your life lessons. These are
insights you’ve learned about God, relationships, problems,
temptations, and other aspects of life. David prayed, God,
teach me lessons for living so I can stay the course.
1341. When I lie down, I go to sleep in peace; You alone, o Lord,
keep me perfectly safe.
1342. And Jesus said unto them ... , "If ye have faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence
to younder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be
impossible to you.
1343. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to
think, than what to think, rather to improve our minds, so as
to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory
with the thoughts of other men.
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Bible, Psalm 4:8
Bible, Romans 1:17
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1344. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to
try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
1345. I believe that if you show people the problems and you show
them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates
1346. Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
Bill Gates
1347. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into
thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
1348. Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a
gift which is why they call it the present.
1349. You lose with potential. You win with performance.
1350. Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be
or do anything you want.
1351. Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
1352. No matter how good you get, there's always something
further out there.
1353. Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Bill Keane
Bill Parcels
Bill Sands
Bill Tilden
Bill Walton
Billie Jean King
1354. Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal
1355. More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
Billy Sunday
1356. The one real object of education is to have a man in the
condition of continually asking questions.
1357. My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a
match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list
of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called
irretrievable defeats into victories.
1358. Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Bishop Creighton
Bjorn Borg
Blaise Pascal
1359. Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other
usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but
when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with
action, the results are much more devastating.
Bo Bennett
1360. Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.
Bo Jackson
1361. Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
1362. It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.
Bob Beamon
Bob Conklin
1363. For the times, they are a changin'.
Bob Dylan
1364. He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
1365. People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is
convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan
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1366. A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is
just as bad.
Bob Edwards
1367. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the
weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been
all of these.
Bob Goddard
1368. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove
that you don't need it.
1369. How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and
look?
1370. It's the little things you do that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can
you do today that will make you more effective? You are
probably only one step away from greatness.
1371. To get, give.
Bob Hope
Bob Marley
Bob Proctor
Bob Roth
1372. Actions lie louder than words
Bob Wells
1373. I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.
Bob Wickman
1374. Everybody wants to win but few prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
1375. The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is
the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight
1376. Forget about style; worry about results.
Bobby Orr
1377. Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.
Bobby Riggs
1378. Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not
education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
1379. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser
1380. You think that good is hating what is bad. What is bad is the
hating mind itself.
1381. Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but
behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are
great things brought to pass; and small means in many
instances doth confound the wise.
1382. Wisdom is better than strength. And a wise man is better
than a strong man.
1383. Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
1384. I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by
the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles
which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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Book of Mormon,
Alma 37:6
Book Of Wisdom
6:1
Booker T.
Washington
Booker T.
Washington
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1385. Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in
complete control.
1386. You cannot hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T.
Washington
Booker T.
Washington
1387. I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can
only change the future. I'm working on that.
Boris Becker
1388. When I talked, no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I
became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous.
Borsi Giosué
1389. If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst
role.
1390. Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
1391. Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand
immediate marriage to action.
Boy George
Braveheart
Brendan Francis
1392. There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
Brian Hays
1393. Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
Brian Tracy
1394. Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and
intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious
mind.
Brian Tracy
1395. All successful men and women are big dreamers. They
imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and
then they work every day toward their distant vision, that
goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
1396. All winners are decisive.
Brian Tracy
1397. An average person with average talent, ambition and
education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our
society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Brian Tracy
1398. Commiting your goals to paper increases the likelihood of
your achieving them by one thousand percent!
Brian Tracy
1399. Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and
importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, selfesteem, and personal satisfaction.
Brian Tracy
1400. Failure to plan means planning to fail.
Brian Tracy
1401. Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your
favor.
Brian Tracy
1402. Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
Brian Tracy
1403. If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any
goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a
parent and you will have given your children the greatest of
all blessings.
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1404. It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters
is where you are going.
Brian Tracy
1405. It isn't what you say or wish or hope or intend that
demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do.
Brian Tracy
1406. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more
luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more
often.
Brian Tracy
1407. No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to
learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely,
positively have to find people who have already paid the price
to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy
1408. Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and
happiness than any other
Brian Tracy
1409. Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense,
exactly as if they already existed.
Brian Tracy
1410. Success equals goals; all else is commentary.
Brian Tracy
1411. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help
others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for
me?
Brian Tracy
1412. The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is
the starting point of all success.
Brian Tracy
1413. The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more
determined you will become.
Brian Tracy
1414. The most important key to achieving great success is to
decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action,
move.
Brian Tracy
1415. The only real antidote to fear, worry, anger, and doubt is
positive action toward the achievement of some worthwhile
ideal.
Brian Tracy
1416. Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own selffulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy
1417. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control
your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you
will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master
you.
Brian Tracy
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1418. You cannot have what you want, but you may experience
whatever you have. The very act of wanting something
pushes it away from you. The universe has no choice but to
bring you the direct manifestation of your thoughts. The
creative power is like a genie in a bottle. Your words are its
command. The word I is the key that starts the engine of
creation. The words I am are extremely powerful. They are
commands to the universe. Now, whatever follows the word I
tends to manifest in physical reality. If you say, I want
success, the universe says, OK, you do. Therefore I + want
success produces you wanting success. I + want money must
produce you wanting money. If you repeat a thought or say a
word, not once, not twice, but dozens, hundreds, thousands
of times, do you have any idea of the creative.
1419. You have within you right now, everything you need to deal
with whatever the world can throw at you.
1420. Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary
entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well.
Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay
with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
1421. Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come
back to you. Madeline S.
Bridges
1422. She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and
did it.
Bridget O'Donnell
1423. A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of
it.
1424. Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is
a menace to the community.
1425. Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears,
Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your
listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
1426. Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well
in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
Brigham Young
Brigham Young
Brigham Young
1427. Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Brigham Young
1428. I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care
about what other people think or say about me, all I care
about is my standing before the Lord.
Brigham Young
1429. I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant
instead of my master.
Brigham Young
1430. If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons
because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate
my daughters.
Brigham Young
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1431. In the adversity of our best friends we often find something
that does not displease us.
Brigham Young
1432. It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new
ones to replace them.
Brigham Young
1433. Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young
1434. Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is
the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Brigham Young
1435. Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do
better tomorrow.
1436. Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood
higher up.
Brigham Young
Brigham Young
1437. Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to
entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young
1438. The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.
Brigham Young
1439. There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in
possession of, but what you have received it from some
source.
Brigham Young
1440. True independence and freedom can only exist in doing
what's right.
Brigham Young
1441. We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are
not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young
1442. The true leader inspires in others self-trust, guiding their eyes
to the spirit, the goal.
Bronson Alcott
1443. If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be
enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
1444. When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
1445. I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in
life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer,
an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If
you do, you'll win; if you don't, you won't.
Bruce Jenner
1446. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves
simply as something to aim at.
1447. I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and
you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
1448. Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Bruce Springsteen
1449. Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
Bruce Springsteen
1450. In the name of convenience, dependency has been stood on
its head and celebrated as a virtue.
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1451. It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those
who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest
discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to
achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30
men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity
them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.
Brutus Hamilton
1452. Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best
that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.
Bryan Lindsay
1453. There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road
to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a
bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to
excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
Buck Rodgers
1454. It's not who jumps the highest, it's who wants it the most.
Buck Williams
1455. No matter where you go, there you are.
Buckaroo Banzai
1456. If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who
gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give
the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told
me about them, and then told me what they learned from
them.
Buckminister Fuller
1457. There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
Buckminister Fuller
1458. A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good
barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a
good talker.
1459. A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha
1460. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a
man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a
man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows
him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
1461. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The
mind is everything. What we think we become.
1462. All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of
causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation to everything else.
1463. All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is
transformed can wrong-doing remain?
1464. Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
1465. An idea that is developed and put into action is more
important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
1466. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild
beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend
will wound your mind.
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Buddha
Buddha
Buddha
Buddha
Buddha
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1467. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense.
1468. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings
peace.
Buddha
Buddha
1469. Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with
diligence.
Buddha
1470. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
1471. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He
who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
1472. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards
than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Buddha
1473. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
1474. Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
1475. Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a
light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and
the room will be filled with light.
Buddha
1476. Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the
eternal rule.
Buddha
1477. Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred
ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
Buddha
1478. Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has
their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddha
1479. He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha
1480. He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all
beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything
with an impartial eye.
Buddha
1481. He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one
has no woes.
Buddha
1482. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
1483. 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.
Buddha
1484. However many holy words you read, however many you
speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon
them?
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1485. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha
1486. I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to
be done.
Buddha
1487. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already
ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for
ourselves.
Buddha
1488. In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people
create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive
them to be true.
1489. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him
to evil ways.
1490. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand
battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from
you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
1491. It is better to travel well than to arrive.
1492. Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live
without a spiritual life.
Buddha
Buddha
Buddha
Buddha
Buddha
1493. Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue
appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure
and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of
human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance
of virtue.
Buddha
1494. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot
today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a
little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least
we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha
1495. Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in
a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt
in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha
1496. Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
Buddha
1497. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha
1498. On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a
shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is
the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can
destroy him.
Buddha
1499. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
1500. Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion are the things which
renew humanity.
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1501. The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
Buddha
1502. The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
1503. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one
knows.
Buddha
1504. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn
for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the
present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
1505. The tongue like a sharp knife...kills without drawing blood.
Buddha
1506. The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A
good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha
1507. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha
1508. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear
what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment
you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha
1509. The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it
as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
1510. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to
truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
1511. There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above
it.
Buddha
1512. There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt
separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships
and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates
and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
1513. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
1514. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and
the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never
decreases by being shared.
Buddha
1515. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the
life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never
decreases by being shared.
Buddha
1516. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and
the truth.
Buddha
1517. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way
of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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1518. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family,
to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control
one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the
way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally
come to him.
1519. To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall
not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
Buddha
1520. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's
own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha
1521. Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and
the idea of Unity are already two.
Buddha
1522. Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by
the good.
Buddha
1523. We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose
minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they
speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never
leaves them.
Buddha
1524. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never
leaves.
Buddha
1525. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our
thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
1526. What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the
midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece
of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as
they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha
1527. What we think, we become.
Buddha
1528. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for
people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or
ill.
Buddha
1529. When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels
tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is
free of fear.
Buddha
1530. Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and
suffering - an image of death.
Buddha
1531. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha
1532. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are
yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You
yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve
your love and affection.
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1533. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished
by your anger.
Buddha
1534. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
1535. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your
heart to give yourself to it.
1536. What you shouldn't do, don't carry a grudge. While you're
carrying the grudge, the other guy's out dancing.
1537. All the lights on Broadway don’t amount to an acre of green.
Buddha
Buddy Hackett
Buffy Ste. Marie
1538. Hey buddy, can you spare some social change?
Bumpersticker
1539. Might doesn’t determine who is right, only who is left.
Bumpersticker
1540. No one is born a bigot.
Bumpersticker
1541. Determine what you want, then resolve to pay the price to
get it.
Bunker Hunt
1542. To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to
accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Bunker Hunt
1543. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have
mastered, you will never grow.
1544. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to
another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one
C. R. Lawton
C. S Lewis
1545. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth
and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
1546. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from
Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
1547. Nothing that you have not given away will ever truly be
yours.
C. S. Lewis
1548. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy
will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then,
have it your way.
C. S. Lewis
1549. We are what we believe we are.
C. S. Lewis
1550. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
C. S. Lewis
1551. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new
dream.
C. S. Lewis
dream.
C. S. Lewis
1553. Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C. W. Ceram
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1554. It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the
limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is
to perceive.
C. W. Leadbeater
1555. If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the
time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any
way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
1556. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has
been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
1557. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with
talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a
proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will
solve, the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
1558. You can't do everything at once, but you can do something at
once.
Calvin Coolidge
1559. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
1560. Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
1561. In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is
to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not
act at all.
1562. An understanding heart in everything is a teacher, and cannot
be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation
to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who
touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much
necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for
the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
1563. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves.
Camus
Cardinal Newman
Carl Icahn
Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1564. If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we
should first examine it and see whether it is not something
that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
1565. If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we
should first examine it and see whether it is not something
that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
1566. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your
heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside,
awakens.
1567. Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30
feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that
have a way of sinking into your feet.
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1568. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned
how to learn, and change.
1569. The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low selfesteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine
that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We
all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
1570. I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the
way.
1571. Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been
unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Rogers
Carl Sagan
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
1572. Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg
1573. Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
1574. The time for action is now. It's never too late to do
something.
Carl Sandburg
1575. Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and
only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest
you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
1576. Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them
with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of
waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them
you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz
1577. Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the
mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Carl Schurz
1578. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget
how you made them feel.
1579. Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
1580. We are the wire, God is the current. Our only power is to let
the current pass through us.
1581. To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is
a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our
fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit.
It takes power to do that.
1582. Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all
the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No
matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it,
and then he must proceed with his actions without having
doubts or remorse about them.
Carl W. Buechner
Carl Weick
Carlo Carretto
Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda
1583. If you can't help it, don't think about it.
Carmel Myers
1584. I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from
the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett
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1585. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
1586. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let
go.
Carol Burnett
1587. It was really fantastic and quite unexpected to get the
reaction that it did [to her book], and the responses from
people directly was very humbling indeed.
1588. Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run
your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
1589. You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone,
which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that
you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
1590. Some people change when they see the light, others when
they feel the heat.
Carol Gilligan
Carol Lewis
Caroline Myss
Caroline Schoeder
1591. There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful
now. I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher
1592. No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
Carrie Snow
1593. Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
1594. Most games are lost, not won.
1595. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Casey Kasem
Casey Stengel
Cassius
1596. When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to
that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger
than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link
and get free.
Catherine Ponder
1597. No action, no change. Limited action, limited change. Lots of
action. Change occurs.
Catherine Pulsifer
1598. Often just by taking action, by doing something about the
situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation.
1599. Rather than thinking 'if and when', start doing, take action,
stop talking about 'if and when'.
Catherine Pulsifer
Catherine Pulsifer
1600. The dreams I only thought about, the ones I took no action
on, well they are still dreams. But the ones that I took action
on, they are now a reality.
Catherine Pulsifer
1601. We all find ourselves in situations that at times seem
hopeless. And, we all have the choice to do nothing or take
action.
Catherine Pulsifer
1602. We all find ourselves in situations that at times seem
hopeless. And, we all have the choice to do nothing or take
action.
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1603. You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you
can see the challenge as your call to action.
1604. All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They
thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard
we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us
now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
1605. So much to do; so little done.
Catherine Pulsifer
Cathy Guisewite
Cecil Rhodes
1606. I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men
and woman trample themselves in the mire and die.
Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties
and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is
that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage
prevail.
Charles A. Beard
1607. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
1608. Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their
personalities, but are instead people whose one driving
enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem
insignificant.
1609. Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the
behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their
mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
1610. Discover day to day excitement.
Charles A. Cerami
Charles A. Garfield
Charles Beaudelaire
1611. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to
zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body
and soul.
Charles Buxton
1612. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you
must make it.
Charles Buxton
1613. You must have long term goals to keep you from being
frustrated by short term failures.
1614. No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with
unlimited power.
1615. Be an explorer...read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy
arts, watch children play...do anything to prevent yourself
from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and
current view of the world.
1616. Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like:
What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What
am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun
doing it?
1617. Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.
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Charles Caleb
Colton
Charles 'Chic'
Thompson
Charles Connolly
Charles D.
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1618. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the
most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
1619. Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Charles De Gaulle
1620. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and
men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle
1621. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
1622. I have always observed that to succeed in the world one
should appear like a fool but be wise. [Fr., J'ai toujours vu
que, pour reussir dans le monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et etre
sage.]
Charles de
Montesquieu
1623. Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who
sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first
beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on
their daily pilgrimage through the world.
Charles Dickens
1624. Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely
more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second
father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as
good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old
city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people
laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh,
and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that
nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some
people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and
knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he
thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes
in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own
heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
Charles Dickens
1625. This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens
1626. The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles du Bois
1627. The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
1628. Mistakes are stepping stones to success.
1629. That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest; do
not worry.
1630. If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you;
but if not, you have infinite power against you.
1631. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy.
1632. All big things in this world are done by people who are naive
and have an idea that is obviously impossible.
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Charles E.
Popplestone
Charles F. Deems
Charles Gordon
Charles H.
Spurgeon
Charles Hamilton
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1633. Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can
become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down
and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to
be.
Charles Jones
1634. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in.
He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering
1635. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering
1636. It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in
the world.
Charles Kettering
1637. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the
rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
1638. Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything
but trouble. Good news weakens me.
1639. The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee
how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment
over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns
what will work.
Charles Kettering
Charles Kettering
1640. The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has
brought progress.
Charles Kettering
1641. The Wright brother flew right through the smoke screen of
impossibility.
Charles Kettering
1642. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about
yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
1643. You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go,
the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more
chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles Kettering
1644. Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.
Charles Kingsley
1645. Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have
something to do which must be done, whether you like it or
not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will
breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know.
Charles Kingsley
1646. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really
happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
1647. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by
stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
1648. Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
1649. You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.
1650. No problem is so large it cannot be run away from.
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1651. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has
unlimited enthusiasm.
1652. Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
1653. The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to
a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to
change its form without being disappointed by the change, for
happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up
1654. Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles M. Schwab
Charles Mayes
Charles Morgan
Charles O. Finley
1655. The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that
belongs to the idea.
Charles Sanders
Peirce
1656. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has
unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab
1657. All successful employers are stalking men who will do the
unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by
performing more than is expected of them.
Charles Schwab
1658. I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who
did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a
spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
1659. The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle
himself away.
1660. No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
1661. People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and
wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot
nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather,
they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they
will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold
them under.
Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab
Charles Steinmetz
Charles Swindoll
1662. The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on
life. Attitude to me is more important than facts.... 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 string we have, and that is
our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what
happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is
with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
Charles Swindoll
1663. The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding
the attitude we will embrace for that day. 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.
Charles Swindoll
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1664. The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of
thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of
programming our minds with the kind of information that will
set us free.
1665. Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet
learned.
1666. This is worse than a crime, it's a blunder. C'est plus qu'un
crime, c'est une faute.
1667. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of
yourself.
1668. Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully
as much on the state of things within, as on the state of
things without and around us.
1669. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity,
or registering wrongs.
1670. Look twice before you leap.
Charles Swindoll
Charles W.
Chesnutt
Charles-Maurice de
Talleyrand
Charlie Chaplin
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
1671. Action makes more fortune than caution.
Charlotte Whitton
1672. The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed
the possibility of doing something.
Chauncey Depew
1673. Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true
revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
1674. Words that do not match deeds are not important.
1675. If you really want something, you can figure out how to make
it happen.
1676. I've been the piece of straw on the back of one too many
camels.
1677. What's so bad about winning a losing battle as long as you're
ahead of everyone else?
1678. Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of
breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma
that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
1679. In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what
you negotiate.
1680. Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the
moment, the other for all time.
1681. In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
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Ché Guevara
Cher
Cherith Dorn
Cherith Dorn
Cherrie Moraga
Chester L. Karrass
Chilon
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1682. If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a
big accomplishment. That quality is important because it
stays with you the rest of your life.
1683. If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
1684. You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a
decisive set, confidence is the difference.
1685. The further behind I get, the bigger behind I become.
1686. Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you
meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in
them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the
best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as
enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about
your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the
greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile.
Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no
time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble
for anger.
1687. The roughest road often leads to the top.
1688. We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when
man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive
capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines
to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our
innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once
lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not
denial.
Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Chris Evert Lloyd
Chris Holbert
Christian D. Larsen
Christina Aguilera
Christopher
Alexander
1689. Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which
you're not really interested in order to get where you're
going.
Christopher
Darlington Morley
1690. Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
1691. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
1692. There is only one success - to spend your life in your own
way.
Christopher Morley
1693. At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and
eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
1694. Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
Christopher Reeve
1695. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they
seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they
soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
1696. You are successful the moment you start moving toward a
worthwhile goal.
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1697. It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when
you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
Chuck Daly
1698. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of
all the others.
Cicero
1699. Only those who are able to relax can create, and then ideas
reach the mind like lightning.
Cicero
1700. The beginnings of all things are small.
Cicero
1701. The good of the people is the highest law.
Cicero
1702. A dream is a wish your heart makes.
1703. In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but
the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's
generous utterances and the day's good deed.
1704. There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who
have grown helpless about them.
Cinderella
Clare Booth Luce
Clare Boothe Luce
1705. The obstacles you face are, mental barriers which can be
broken by adopting a more positive approach.
Clarence Blasier
1706. No other offense has ever been visited with such severe
penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Clarence Darrow
1707. Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn
out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss
snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of
brandy round its neck.
1708. It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all
resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
Claud Cockburn
Claude M. Bristol
1709. The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or
an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to
be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus
enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to
realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of
physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by
step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and
powers become directed to that end.
Claude M. Bristol
1710. To win, you've got to stay in the game.
Claude M. Bristol
1711. You have to think big to be big.
Claude M. Bristol
1712. All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
1713. Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance
is lost on most.
1714. Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you
have to take things into your own hands.
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1715. You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
Clive Davis
1716. What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the
size of the fight in the dog.
Coach Bear Bryant
1717. Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a
very low neck.
Coco Chanel
1718. Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose
them.
Coco Chanel
1719. We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if
we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride
we once had.
Coleman Young
1720. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
1721. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not
merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
1722. The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
1723. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
Comer Cotrell
Comte de Buffon
1724. Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your
life.
Confucius
1725. Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good
society.
Confucius
1726. Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look
at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly
prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small
advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
1727. Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.
1728. He who wishes to secure the good of others has already
secured his own.
1729. If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.
1730. Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it
as though you would be in fear of losing it.
1731. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
1732. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being
accomplished.
1733. Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for
roast duck to drop in.
Confucius
Confucius
Confucius
Confucius
Confucius
Confucius
Confucius
Confucius
1734. One joy dispels a hundred cares.
Confucius
1735. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
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1736. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every
time we fall.
Confucius
1737. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
1738. The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all
progress and all moral development.
Confucius
1739. The superior man is modest in his speech but surpassing in
his actions.
Confucius
1740. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his
actions.
Confucius
1741. To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
1742. To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
1743. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't
adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
1744. When prosperity comes do not use all of it.
Confucius
1745. When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn
inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius
1746. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
1747. You can cheat an honest man but you can not make a fool out
of him.
Confucius
1748. I wanted to be scared again, I wanted to feel unsure again.
That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.
Connie Chung
1749. Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful
men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they
don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
1750. Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of
every man or woman.
Conrad Hilton
1751. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men
Conrad Hilton
1752. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people
Conrad Hilton
1753. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone
to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties
arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires
courage
Conrad Hilton
1754. Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible
in another decade.
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1755. Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one
is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human
kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a oneidea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and
ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
1756. Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
1757. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to
succeed.
1758. Never be afraid to trust an anonymous future to a known
God.
1759. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is
always an orphan.
1760. Often the true test of courage is not to die but to live.
1761. Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact,
drugs are dumb and self-indulgent. Kind of like sucking your
thumb.
1762. The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits
others have gained from your success.
Corinne Roosevelt
Robinson
Corinthians
Corita Kent
Corrie Ten Boom
Count Galeazzo
Ciano
Count Vittorio Alfieri
Courtney Love
Cullen Hightower
1763. I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And
each year I set a new goal.
Curtis Carlson
1764. Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you
act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the
middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
Curtis Grant
1765. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a
microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and
acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell,
leap.
1766. The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to
be always calm, to let each wave of life wash us a little
farther up the shore
1767. The scars you acquire by excercising courage will never make
you feel inferior.
1768. Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction,
strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness,
backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for
anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.
1769. There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality;and then there are those who turn
one into the other.
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Cyril Connolly
D. A. Battista
D. A. Benton
D. H. Everett
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1770. All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in
the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find out
it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous
men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make
it possible.
D. H. Lawrence
1771. You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't
you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let
the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
D. H. Lawrence
1772. He who kneels the most stands best.
D. L. Moody
1773. I can love the whole world except my neighbor.
Dada Dharmadikari
1774. Go as far as the eye can see, and when you get there, look
farther.
Dag Hammarskjold
1775. Never look down to test the ground before taking your next
step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will
find his right road.
1776. Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have
reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold
1777. Treat others as ends, never as means.
Dag Hammerskjold
1778. The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.
Dag Hammerskjvld
1779. With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Daisaku Ikeda
1780. You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new
lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the
heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle.
Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for
opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult
than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
Daisaku Ikeda
1781. Great works are done when one is not calculating and
thinking.
1782. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her
own way is without enemies.
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1783. 1. Take into account that great love and great achievements
involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others
and Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate
steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and
think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for
your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the
current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your
love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to
get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. I also
know that dreams really do come true and you have my Best
Wishes and my best efforts in those.
Dalai Lama
1784. All major religious traditions carry basically the same
message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the
important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
1785. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama
1786. Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a
Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.
Dalai Lama
1787. Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be
alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste
it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to
expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for
the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts
towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly
about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
1788. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your
own actions.
1789. If people are suffering, then they must look within
themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made
[Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.
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1790. If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not
harm them.
Dalai Lama
1791. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you
can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
1792. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you
want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
1793. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
1794. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
1795. It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in
our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we
can do is to desist from harming them.
1796. It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There
are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions
and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming
and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of
compassion. The other is more social, more public. When
something needs to be done in the world to rectify the
wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one
needs to be engaged, involved.
1797. It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart,
as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short
term and the long term for both yourself and others will
come.
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
1798. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get
it.
Dalai Lama
1799. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without
them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
1800. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
1801. Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the
days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important
thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a
meaningful day.
Dalai Lama
1802. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Dalai Lama
1803. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you
can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
1804. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
1805. Sleep is the best meditation.
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1806. Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying
something, and sometimes one creates as significant an
impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama
1807. Spend some time alone every day.
Dalai Lama
1808. The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
1809. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for
goodness.
Dalai Lama
1810. The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's
own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama
1811. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated
philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my
philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
1812. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no
need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own
heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
1813. Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a
sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and
human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
1814. We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot
survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
1815. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make
peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
1816. We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the
inner world and don't make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
1817. Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real
peace.
Dalai Lama
1818. Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one
believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama
1819. With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in
one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama
1820. World peace must develop out of inner peace.
Dalai Lama
1821. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes
character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
1822. Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the
heart out.
1823. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and
courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and
think about it. Go out and get busy.
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courage.
courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and
think about it. Go out and get busy.
1826. Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there
seemed to be no hope at all.
1827. Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or
what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
1828. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate
yourself.
Dale Carnegie
1829. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again
in a different way.
Dale Carnegie
1830. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with
creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie
1831. You can make more friends in two months by becoming
interested in other people than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
1832. You never achieve real success unless you like what you are
doing.
Dale Carnegie
1833. In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the
attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make
mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness
and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.
1834. It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It
is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to
look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it.
When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all
thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him. " But David
looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't
miss him. "
Dale Turner
Dale Turner
1835. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and
mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is
only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is
discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner
1836. People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of
adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Dale Turner
1837. Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past
mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of
the future.
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1838. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first
requisite of progress. Those who believe they have "arrived"
believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed
their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
1839. You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over
the edge.
1840. If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best
way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the
right thing right, I'm going to succeed.
1841. If you think you have a limitation, chances are you're going to
have one.
1842. Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by
them.
1843. Opportunity lies between your own two ears
1844. Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no
matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome
apathy, doubt or fear.
Dale Turner
Damon Runyon
Dan Dierdorf
Dan Kelly
Dan McKinnon
Dan Miller
Dan Millman
1845. If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Dan Quayle
1846. The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
1847. Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your
compass. From then on, the compass knows only one pointits ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the
darkest nights and fiercest storms.
Daniel Boone
1848. America has been a land of dreams. A land where the
aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich,
cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what
once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make
dreams come true. Yet now, we are threatened by a new and
particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class
war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or
demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most
of the world. It is the menace of unreality.
Daniel Boorstin
1849. The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest
resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel Boorstin
1850. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the
illusion of knowledge.
1851. Dream is the spark of passion; talent is the firework of its
expression; perseverance, the sacred fire of its
accomplishment.
1852. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
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1853. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood
and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans;
aim high in hope and work.
1854. You don’t have to kill a person to make him agree with you.
1855. It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start
programs.
1856. I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not
new, and what is new is not valuable.
1857. There is always room at the top.
Daniel Hudson
Burnham
Daniel Mazgaonkar
Daniel Moynihan
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster
1858. Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint
you can on it.
1859. All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover
why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in
life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
1860. Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its
foundations lies in what we do for others.
1861. The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.
1862. Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope
renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
Danny Kaye
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas
Dante
Dante Alighieri
1863. All men are created equal, some are just faster than others.
Darren Franklin
1864. You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things
you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in
what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
Darwin P. Kingsley
1865. You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things
you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in
what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
1866. No one ever excused his way to success.
1867. If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you might
find you're missing all the rest.
1868. If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you
have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to
improve your performance, or just to finish the race. It's up
to you.
1869. We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In
feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by
heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the
noblest, acts the best.
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1870. One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill
in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and
paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It
is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility
for social change.
David Barsamian
1871. One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill
in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and
paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It
is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility
for social change.
David Barsamian
1872. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with
the bricks that others throw at him or her.
1873. Ideas are worthless without action.
1874. Adventure is not outside a man. It is within.
David Brinkley
David Cameron
Gikandi
David Grayson
1875. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be
looking for it.
David Henry
Thoreau
1876. I am apt to suspect... all the other species of men... to be
naturally inferior to white. There never was a civilzation of
any other complexion than white, nor even any individual
eminent either in action or speculation.
David Hume
1877. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big
goals and win big success.
1878. All great achievements require time.
1879. Do what you fear and fear disappears.
1880. The success combination in business is: Do what you do
better, and: Do more of what you do.
1881. Think big goals and win big success.
1882. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big
goals and win big success.
1883. To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
1884. Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one
direction.
1885. I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
1886. Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t
cross a chasm in two small jumps.
1887. People may or may not say what they mean, but they always
say something designed to get what they want.
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David Joseph
Schwartz
David Joseph
Schwartz
David Joseph
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David Joseph
Schwartz
David Joseph
Schwartz
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David Livingstone
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1888. We think we will die of embarrassment if we are rejected. We
sometimes don't even get up to bat because we don't want to
strike out. The way I understand it, success and failure, as
commonly spoken of, are really impostors. It is the
experience of moving toward the goal that is important.
Moving equals success. Not moving equals failure.
David Miln Smith
1889. Great men have the ability to see clearly into the heart of
things. They discern truth. They think independently. They act
nobly. They influence strong men to follow them. Small men
sneer at them, ridicule them, persecute them, but the critics
die and are forgotten, and the great man lives on forever.
David O. McKay
1890. Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of
love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
1891. The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and
which to burn.
1892. The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into
institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates
the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so
thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not
occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this
reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very
different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in
which everyone, until very recently, lived.
1893. Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
1894. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither
he is going.
1895. To recognize that everything is surprising is the first step
toward recognizing that everything is a gift.
1896. People, especially people in positions of power, have invested
a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they
are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong
path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking
differently.
David O. McKay
David Russell
David Schwartz
David Seabury
David Starr Jordan
David Steidl-Rast
David Suzuki
1897. In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
David Viscott
1898. To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes
time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To
think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to
invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for
trying again.
David Viscott
1899. Why have random acts of kindness when you can have
intentional acts of good will?
1900. Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice,
you'll be halfway there.
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1901. Trust in your preparation.
Davie Sheppard
1902. Never do things others can do and will do if there are things
others cannot do or will not do.
Dawson Trottman
1903. An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one
whom nobody can imitate.
De Chateaubriand
1904. Good enough never is.
Debbi Field
1905. It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
1906. Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely
reluctant to make any change that might affect their high
standard of living.
1907. In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus
evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing
good versus doing nothing.
Decouvertes
Deepak Chopra
Deirdre Sullivan
1908. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great
enterprises.
Demosthenes
1909. As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest
destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day
or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Denis Waitley
1910. Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I
have to do.
Denis Waitley
1911. Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be
surprised.
Denis Waitley
1912. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you
straight for your next success.
1913. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is
delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing,
doing nothing, and being nothing.
1914. Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a
collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
1915. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your
own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon,
the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
1916. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate
because they are afraid of the success that they know will
result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy,
carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to
procrastinate and live on the someday I'll philosophy.
Denis Waitley
1917. Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self image.
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1918. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they
don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously
consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell
you where they are going, what they plan to do along the
way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
1919. The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly
defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them
several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if
we've already achieved them.
1920. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as
they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
1921. Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the
composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your
relationships with others, remember the basic and critically
important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you
want respect, set a respectable example!
1922. We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need
to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.
1923. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your
past successes.
1924. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a
temporary change in direction to set you straight for your
next success.
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
Denis Watley
1925. Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Dennis Wholey
1926. Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Dennis Wholey
1927. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
1928. Concealed talent brings no reputation.
1929. A person is a person because he recognizes others as
persons.
Desiderius Erasmus
Desmond Tutu
1930. Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond Tutu
1931. Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary
capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham
and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu
1932. Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of
good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu
1933. For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what
we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to
recognize that we are humans, too.
Desmond Tutu
1934. I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow
a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu
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1935. I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion
thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my
master. I want the full menu of rights.
1936. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen
the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the
tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse
will not appreciate your neutrality.
1937. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young
person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she
possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
1938. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human
together.
1939. Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a
sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten
emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic
or material appeal.
1940. Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are
doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our
cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they
are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
1941. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible
and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu
1942. We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God
has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
1943. We would like to see you departing peacefully.
Desmond Tutu
1944. What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the
vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Desmond Tutu
1945. When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and
you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa
you are blamed when that happens.
Desmond Tutu
1946. Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Desmond Tutu
1947. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as
you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
1948. You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Desmond Tutu
1949. I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain
or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that
the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in
the anonymous, and the only path to the anonymous is
through breaking barriers, an often-painful process.
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1950. Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where
you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become
an overnight success.
Diana Rankin
1951. I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they
might not come when you want them. They come in their own
time.
Diana Ross
1952. Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty
years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get
there then.
Diana Ross
1953. You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that
golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it
happen for yourself.
1954. Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt
1955. All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
1956. We don't have to wait for fear to vanish altogether because
that moment will never come; all we need is a moment of
daring that can change a whole lifetime of waiting.
1957. I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no
substitute for paying attention.
1958. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have
to play better than anyone else.
1959. You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
1960. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for
responsibility.
1961. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
1962. It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological
tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance
our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring
knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application.
Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate
knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the
essential.
1963. Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy
levels, health and well-being more than we realize. Every
thought and feeling, no matter how big or small, impacts our
inner energy reserves.
1964. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
1965. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta be willing
to put up with the rain.
1966. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Diana Ross
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Diane Conway
Diane Sawyer
Dianne Feinstein
Dick Armey
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Diogenes
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Doc Childre
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1967. When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I
ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
1968. Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will
almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best"
in your chosen field, whatever it is.
Dom Helder Camara
Don G. Mitchell
1969. Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and
are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis
1970. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
1971. Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.
Don Shula
1972. The business of politics consists of a series of unsentimental
transactions between those who need votes and those who
have money, a world where every quid has its quo.
Don Tyson
1973. We are what and where we are because we have first
imagined it.
1974. There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and
activity.
1975. The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of
doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
1976. For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the
hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the
experience most certainly changes your perspective. The
things that we share in our world are far more valuable than
those which divide us.
1977. I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success,
and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness
(like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do
in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one
without the other.
1978. If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one
step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but
take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're
progressing until you step back and see how high you've
really gone.
1979. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and
important matters as important.
Donald Curtis
Donald G. Mitchell
Donald Riggs
Donald Williams
Donna Fargo
Donny Osmond
Doris Lessing
1980. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something
you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
1981. There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that
the second-best is anything but the second-best.
Doris Lessing
1982. In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly
impressed that there must be something for me to do.
Dorothea Dix
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1983. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned
that the only solution is love and that love comes with
community.
1984. People who make some other person part of their job are
dangerous.
1985. Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
1986. Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Day
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Miller
Richardson
Dorothy Parker
1987. All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and
frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is
the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face
which turns us from failure to success.
1988. Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary
setbacks.
1989. Long-range planning works best in the short term.
1990. I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new
possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an
entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake
to the moment.
Dorthea Brande
Dottie Walters
Doug Evelyn
Doug Hall
1991. Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by
people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson
1992. The trouble with learning from experience is that you never
graduate.
Doug Larson
1993. There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn
one into the other.
1994. When you determined what you want, you have made the
most important decision of your life. You have to know what
you want in order to attain it.
1995. It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
1996. It isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever
you are.
1997. If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this
forever. Is that good news?
Douglas Everett
Douglas Lurtan
Douglas Macarthur
Douglas Malloch
Douglas Noel
Adams
1998. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as
they fly by.
Douglas Noël
Adams
1999. Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that
your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the
impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the
everlasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you
hang on after you have taken hold.
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
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2000. Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to
be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new
things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear
always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and
allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically,
make yourself a happier and more productive person.
2001. The person interested in success has to learn to view failure
as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the
top.
2002. The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me
what I am, they REVEAL who I am.
2003. You can't change what you don't acknowledge.
2004. When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
2005. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on
your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy
who'll decide where to go.
2006. I have never in my life learned anything from any man who
agreed with me.
2007. Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases
to be dangerous you don't want it.
2008. Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're
swinging.
2009. Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather
the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength
tomorrow.
Dr. David M. Burns
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Dr. Laura
Schlessinger
Dr. Phil
Dr. Robert Anthony
Dr. Seuss
Dudley Field Malone
Duke Ellington
Duke Snider
Dwight Eisenhower
2010. When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never
do. lose.
Dwight Eisenhower
2011. 'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Dwight Eisenhower
2012. I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my
game plan and try not to overthrow.
Dwight Gooden
2013. The world is divided into people who do things and people
who get the credit.
Dwight Whitney
Morrow
2014. I wanted to show people how to get from A to B in your life.
How to change your stinking thinking.
2015. Some are born to dig; others have digging thrust upon them.
2016. I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their
place and it is not first.
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E. F. Schumacher
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2017. Man’s needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only
in the spiritual realm, never in the material.
E. F. Schumacher
2018. No one is really working for peace unless he is working
primarily for the restoration of wisdom.
E. F. Schumacher
2019. Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it
forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
2020. There is no advancement to him who stands trembling
because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
2021. Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off
his goal.
2022. Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
2023. Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing — and does it
well.
2024. The question of whether a computer can think is no more
interesting than the question of whether a submarine can
swim.
2025. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found
truth without it.
E. H. Chapin
E. J. Klemme
E. Joseph Crossman
E. L. Konigsburg
E. Merrill Root
E. W. Dijkstra
E. W. Dijkstra
2026. The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see. To do
the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the
vivid glow, I started to complain - When all at once upon the
air I heard the blindman's cane.
Earl Musselman
2027. Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish
something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will
pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to
the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale
2028. People are where they are because that is exactly where they
really want to be whether they will admit that or not.
Earl Nightingale
2029. People with goals succeed because they know where they're
going.
2030. Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.
2031. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or
ideal.
Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale
2032. There is no limit on earnings.
Earl Nightingale
2033. We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale
2034. What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale
2035. Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your
contribution, that is your service to others.
Earl Nightingale
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2036. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and
do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have
one.
2037. The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front
page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
2038. I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to
win any more games by being anything else.
2039. Have the courage to act instead of react.
2040. As long as we are not trying to change somebody else to be
like me, or like you, or like him, or like her, what's your
problem?
2041. As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing
you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you
certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All
you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for
grace and love to enter.
2042. Maturity doesn’t come with age; it comes with acceptance of
responsibility.
2043. A good scare is worth more than good advice.
2044. You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't,
someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you
when you meet.
2045. You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising
budget is big enough.
2046. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your
full potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to
personal excellence.
Earl of Chesterfield
Earl Warren
Earl Weaver
Earlene Larson
Jenks
Eartha Kitt
Eckhart Tolle
Ed Cole
Ed Howe
Ed Macauley
Ed Rollins
Eddie Robinson
2047. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be
done, and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
2048. Somebody said it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle
replied, That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one, Who
wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in, with the
trace of a grin, On his face. If he worried, he hid it. He started
to sing, as he tackled the thing, That couldn't be done, and he
did it.
Edgar A. Guest
2049. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which
escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
2050. All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allen Poe
2051. Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
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2052. For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he
that expects much if he lives and uses that in hand day by
day shall be full to running over.
2053. People are always neglecting something they can do in trying
to do something they can't do.
2054. Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful
appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a
Pekinese?
2055. The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a
dream?
2056. By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
2057. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing
because he could do only a little.
2058. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has
its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe
when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to
comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a
holy curiosity.
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Watson Howe
Edith Sitwell
Edmond Rostand
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2059. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
2060. We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most
powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
2061. When a great man has some one object in view to be
achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for
him to walk out of all the common roads.
2062. A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber
2063. I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is
vertical, so it's humiliating. It goes from the top to the
bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other and
learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people.
2064. I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is
vertical, so it's humiliating. It goes from the top to the
bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other and
learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people.
2065. Belief without action is the ruin of the soul.
2066. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30
days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a
success of his life.
2067. But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
Edmund Burke
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Eduardo Galeano
Edward Abbey
Edward B. Butler
Edward Bond
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2068. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than
dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach
himself.
2069. Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the
penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
2070. An idea that is developed and put into action is more
important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
2071. Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the
existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces.
It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is
where we organise the external world into the pieces we can
then ‘process’.
2072. Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that
they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment.
This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even
in tiny ways.
2073. Persistent people begin their success where others end in
failure.
2074. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but
still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
2075. Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out
and not in.
2076. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
2077. It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a
single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory,
but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last
polish to my work.
2078. The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators.
2079. Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to
succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's
dollar.
2080. Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
2081. If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right
answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its
own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only
the inquiring mind solves problems.
2082. The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match.
Each one of you is a fuse.
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Edward Dahlberg
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
Edward Eggleston
Edward Everett
Hale
Edward Everett
Hale
Edward George
Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
Edward H. Harriman
Edward H. Harriman
Edward Hodnett
Edward Koch
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2083. Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will
sooner or later have to find time for illness.
2084. When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's
time to step into the darkness of the anonymous, faith is
knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will
be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught
how to fly.
2085. I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things
through, then follow through.
Edward Stanley
Edward Teller
Edward V.
Rickenbacker
2086. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
2087. Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his
circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no
more.
Edward Young
2088. Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
2089. Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to
mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving
for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for
perfection in practically anything is both neurotic and futile.
Edwin Bliss
2090. You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying
there.
Edwin Louis Cole
2091. He drew a circle to keep me out, A thing of scorn, and a thing
to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle
that took him in.
Edwin Markham
2092. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless
wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Edwin Way Teale
2093. A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
Eileen Caddy
2094. Allow motion to equal emotion.
Elbert Hubbard
2095. Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the
way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard
2096. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it
alive.
Elbert Hubbard
2097. He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often,
and loved much.
2098. It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover
ability in others is the true test.
2099. Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even
courage but simply because they have never organized their
energies around a goal.
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2100. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No
machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
2101. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good
work today.
Elbert Hubbard
2102. The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of
making one.
Elbert Hubbard
2103. The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert Hubbard
2104. Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the
art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been
characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to
the minutest detail.
Elbert Hubbard
2105. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
2106. You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to
think.
Elbert Hubbard
2107. You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
2108. A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book
and some simple food and music that would be rest.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2109. Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no
security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively,
unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2110. It is better to light a candle than to curse darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2111. It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do
yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2112. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true
friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2113. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2114. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2115. The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2116. Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small
places, close to home—so close and so small they cannot be
seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the
individual person, Such are the places where every man,
woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal
dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have
meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without
concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we
shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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2117. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every
experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2118. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2119. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2120. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of
grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the
simple things of nature have a message that you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.
2121. Just as despair can come to one only from other human
beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human
beings.
2122. Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who
came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person
because whatever you could do is less than what has already
been done to him. We have already paid the price.
2123. Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Eleonora Duse
Elie Weisel
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
2124. There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if
you lose, you win.
Elie Wiesel
2125. There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human
beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate
that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here
before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have
read were composed by generations of fathers and sons,
mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum
total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
Elie Wiesel
2126. It had long since come to my attention that people of
2128. There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire,
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but
which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of
adversity.
2129. An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an
ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
2130. God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
2131. Light tomorrow with today.
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Elinor Smith
Elisabeth Guizot
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
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2132. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and
take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
2133. I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am
always well.
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
2134. I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and
we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and
thought throughout our lifetime.
Elizabeth KublerRoss
2135. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day
One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's
greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free
choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elizabeth KublerRoss
2136. People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine
when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true
beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
2137. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy
ways, reform thy own.
2138. It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it
is the doing of the little things, the common duties, a little
better and better.
2139. Success is a great deodorant.
2140. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go
wrong.
Elizabeth KüblerRoss
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps
Elizabeth Taylor
Ella Fitzgerald
2141. One ship drives east, and another west With the self-same
winds that blow: ‘Tis the set of the sails And not the gales,
Which decides the way we go. Like the winds of the sea are
the ways of fate, As they voyage along through life; ‘Tis the
will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the
strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
2142. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, That can circumvent
or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
2143. Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
2144. All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Glasgow
2145. I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of
people who are convinced they are about to change the
world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference after another.
Ellen Goodman
2146. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Elmer Letterman
2147. Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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2148. Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never
walked in that man’s shoes.
2149. When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person
forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times,
then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical.
Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't
matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem.
Elvis Presley
Emil Zatopek
2150. When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are
antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without
any exception.
Emile Coué
2151. I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever
after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and
through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour
of my mind.
Emily Bronte
2152. You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you
could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and
dug harder.
Emily Carr
2153. Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And
sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
2154. Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
2155. That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
2156. Perfection is the greatest bore.
Emily Hawkins
2157. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great
actions speak to all mankind.
Emily P. Bissell
2158. You know what I think about success? It sucks too much cess.
Eminem
2159. The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the
locust hedge it curves from sight And yet no man would
foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.
Emma Carleton
2160. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Emma Goldman
2161. Social and economic well-being will become a reality only
through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising
determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the
mass.
Emma Goldman
2162. The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to
establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the
right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Emma Goldman
2163. When we can't dream any longer, we die.
Emma Goldman
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2164. As your faith is strengthened, you will find that there is no
longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will
flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your
great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel
2165. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be
used.
Emmanuel
2166. A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger,
better and wiser.
2167. For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on
the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning
is something that builds physically and mentally every day
that you train and every night that you dream.
2168. Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
2169. When something can be read without effort, great effort has
gone into its writing.
Emmett Fox
Emmitt Smith
Engineer's Motto
Enrique Jardiel
Poncela
2170. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of
the ignorant.
Epictetus
2171. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what
you have to do.
Epictetus
2172. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what
you have to do.
Epictetus
2173. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he
has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
2174. It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but
your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus
2175. Men are disturbed, not by the things that happen, but by their
opinion of the things that happen.
Epictetus
2176. No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
2177. The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus
2178. If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his money,
but subtract from his desires.
2179. The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting
it.
2180. For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can, To
all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as
ever you can.
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2181. If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go
directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise
strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take
charge and create the experience you are looking for?.
2182. Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the
power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the
freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
Eric Allenbaugh
Eric Berne
2183. Don't go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
2184. Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
Eric Butterworth
2185. In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth,
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal
with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
2186. It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people
to action, while the distant hope acts an opiate.
Eric Hoffer
2187. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
The resentment of the weak does not spring from any
injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy
and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness.
When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness
wherever they see it.
Eric Hoffer
2188. The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a
large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves.
The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his
neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
Eric Hoffer
2189. The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as
ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We
hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward
others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when
we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when
we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
2190. They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort.
They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to
misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core
of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties
inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by
persistence and patience something worthwhile will be
realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
Eric Hoffer
2191. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it
sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own
opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer
2192. We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
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2193. I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly,
operating experience. The people here at Google are young.
Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things
focused. The speech I give everyday is: "This is what we do.
Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it
change the world?
2194. Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture
it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where
it leads.
2195. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the
talent to the dark place where it leads.
2196. I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear
control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically
the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone
ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back,
turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
2197. Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A
terrible thing: no one is to blame.
Eric Schmidt
Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Erica Jong
2198. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
2199. The most important factor for the development of the
individual is the structure and the values of the society into
which he was born.
Erich Fromm
2200. To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is
not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no
birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm
2201. Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen
Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
2202. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone
else.
Erma Bombeck
2203. The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a
hindrance. The man who does not give up can move
mountains.
Ernest Hello
2204. But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but
not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
2205. Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
2206. Man is not cut out for defeat. Man can be destroyed but not
defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
2207. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in
the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
2208. Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
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2209. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word,
is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those
who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to
see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-givenand-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do
something as they believe it should be done before they die.
Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good
reason are preferred because they are understandable and
human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human
and more beloved.
Ernest Hemingway
2210. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong
at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
2211. We have come out of the time when obedience, the
acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution,
were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a
person’s duty to understand the world rather than simply
fight for it.
Ernest Hemingway
2212. So great has been the endurance, so incredible the
achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in
heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.
2213. The great composer does not set to work because he is
inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after
day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for
inspiration.
2214. Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having
few wants.
2215. You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your
horizon. The more things you love, the more you are
interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant
about, the more you have left when anything happens.
2216. The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only
in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
2217. The source of genius is imagination alone.
2218. Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited
me more than the intelligence quotient.
2219. Try first thyself, and after call in God, For to the worker God
himself lends aid.
Ernest L. Woodward
Ernest Newman
Esther de Waal
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Percy Andrus
Eugene Delacroix
Eugene S. Wilson
Euripides
2220. Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only
once.
Eva Gabor
2221. Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.
Eva Peron
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2222. Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
2223. There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
2224. Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
There's no other definition of it.
2225. When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the
word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow
through.
2226. What this country needs is more people to inspire others with
confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in
the right direction; more to get into the thick of things, fewer
to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault; more to point out
what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on
what's wrong with it; and more who are interested in lighting
candles, and fewer who blow them out.
2227. The very essence of leadership is having a vision. It must be
a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every
occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
2228. There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every
mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or
not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of
debt is most unbearable.
2229. If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
Evelyn Waugh
F. Albrecht
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. W. Nichol
Father James Keller
Father Theodore
Hesburgh
Fawn M. Brodie
Fay Weldon
2230. A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green
majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and
throw my handful of seed on high.
Fiona Macleod
2231. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship
that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson
2232. What you see is what you get.
2233. When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not
listening any more.
2234. I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought
all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
2237. Never give nor take an excuse.
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Florence Griffith
Joyner
Florence
Nightengale
Florence
Nightingale
Florence
Nightingale
Florence
Nightingale
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2238. Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been
brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and
often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure
and discouragement.
Florence Scovel
Shinn
2239. If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get
the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel
Shinn
2240. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy
to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning
the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of
achievement.
2241. The oppressed of the Earth, rising, make their own law.
2242. Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
2243. Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a
success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout
eternity.
2244. The most important thing about motivation is goal setting.
You should always have a goal.
Foster C. McClellan
Foxfire
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Watkins
Harper
Francie Larrieu
Smith
2245. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
2246. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
2247. All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the
heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Francis Bacon
2248. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
2249. Hope makes for a good breakfast, but a poor supper.
Francis Bacon
2250. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by
study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too
much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
2251. The mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon
2252. This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two
contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in
half.
Francis Bacon
2253. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
2254. Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
2255. Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more
virtues than others, but only Those who have greater designs.
2256. Hope and fear are inseparable.
2257. The confidence we have in others stems directly from our
confidence in ourselves.
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Francis Keppel
Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
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2258. Organize one's values in the order of their worth.
François De La
Rochefoucauld
2259. We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world
could see all the motives which produced them.
François De La
Rochefoucauld
2260. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a
man’s growth without destroying his roots.
Frank A. Clark
2261. There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for
everyone's greed.
2262. Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful.
What causes most people to fail is that after one failure,
they'll stop trying.
Frank Buchman
Frank Burford
2263. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
Frank Gaines
2264. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
Frank Gaines
2265. Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom
awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
2266. The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
2267. 'Think simple' as my old master used to say. Reduce the
whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first
principle.
Frank Lloyd Wright
2268. Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.
2269. Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you into trouble.
2270. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight
train, but if he has a university education he may steal the
whole railroad.
2271. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of
creative effort.
Frank McGee
Frank Tyger
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
2272. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try
something.
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
2273. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
2274. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own
minds.
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
2275. More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of
all wars.
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
2276. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our
doubts of today.
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
2277. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang
on.
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
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2278. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Franklin P. Adams
2279. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a
friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
2280. Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success
— yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones
2281. The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the
country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is
common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it
frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin Roosevelt
2282. From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning
back. That is the point that must be reached.
2283. Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe
in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will
become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the
same movements he will become more skillful and his
muscles more relaxed, he must be a fanatic for hard work and
enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.
2284. It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but
rather those mutually supportive alliances through which
partners recognize their dependence on each other for the
achievement of shared and private goals.
2285. Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to
drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.
2286. Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.
2287. When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have
a strategy, you're more comfortable.
2288. Real spirituality is not up n the clouds - it is down on earth,
here and now. Deep spirituality is seeing God every day in the
common things, and showing God your appreciation by doing
common tasks.
Franz Kafka
Franz Stampfl
Fred Allen
Fred Allen
Fred Astaire
Fred Couples
Fred De Witt Van
Amburgh
2289. The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at
the end of your own arm.
Fred Dehner
2290. All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to
me.
Fred Rogers
2291. Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You
must first set yourself on fire.
2292. Success is relevant to coping with obstacles, But no problem
is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for
someone to blame instead of something to do.
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2293. Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a
devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will
create and manifest.
2294. The place where God calls you is the place where your deep
gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Bailes
Frederick Buechner
2295. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who
profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men
who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want
rain without thunder and lightning.
Frederick Douglass
2296. Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never has and
it never will.
Frederick Douglass
2297. On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but
only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing
right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W.
Robertson
2298. Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base
and keep your feet on first.
Frederick Wilcox
2299. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels
2300. Distrust all men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
2301. He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything
either.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2302. If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2303. In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2304. Life always gets harder toward the summit, the cold
increases, responsibility increases.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2305. Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not
helped to produce.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2306. On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either
you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training
your powers so that you will be able to climb higher
tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2307. One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity,
ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
2308. Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any
single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2309. To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2310. What does not destroy me makes me strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Von
Sachsen
2311. Confidence awakens confidence.
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2312. He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
Friedrich von
Schiller
2313. Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's
going on now that's hard.
Fritz R. S. Dressler
2314. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear
most.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
2315. Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can
live.
2316. It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.
2317. It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
2318. Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief
that outgoing college students should never be released into
the world until they have been properly sedated.
2319. Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the
same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds
hovels.
but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
G. A. Borghese
G. A. StuddertKennedy
G. B. Trudeau
G. H. Lewis
G. K. Chesterton
but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton
2322. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G. K. Chesterton
2323. There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to
accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. Chesterton
2324. There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on
impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
G. K. Chesterton
2325. Education has produced a vast population able to read but
unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
2326. We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has
been accomplished without passion.
G. Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel
2327. Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from
the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be
a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Gabriel Heatter
2328. Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime
language.
Gail Godwin
2329. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we
aren’t really living.
2330. The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the
whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in
meeting those tests.
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2331. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best
therapist.
2332. We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were
beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was
to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by
reorganizing. And what a wonderful method it can be for
creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
inefficiency and demoralization.
2333. Never give up, never surrender!
2334. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and
proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets
busy on the proof.
2335. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find
it within himself.
Gail Sheehy
Gaius Petronius
Arbiter
Galaxy Quest
Galbraith's Law
Galileo
2336. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
2337. If not you, who? If not now, when?
Garry Herbert
2338. I just wake up and say, "You're a bum, go do something
worthwhile today. "
2339. You know a dream is like a river, Ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's not just a vessel, That must flow where it
goes.
2340. The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal
setting provides for you the opportunity to create an
extraordinary life.
2341. Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred
tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where
they won't block your view.
Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Gary Blair
Gary Carter
2342. You don't have to get it right. You just have to get it going.
Gary Halbert
2343. We must get beyond debates about the merits of affirmative
action and begin to act in the affirmative
Gary HolderWinfield
2344. Do more than is required. What is the distance between
someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who
spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra
mile. Advancement only comes with habitually doing more
than you are asked.
2345. Success demands focus. It is the hallmark of all truly great
people. Your ability to get and remain focused or lack thereof
is perhaps the key determinant of your success.
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2346. The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal
setting provides for you the opportunity to create an
extraordinary life.
2347. One good thing about being young is that you are not
experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the
things you are doing.
2348. A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on
and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither
away.
2349. There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to
pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to
fight, and that time has come!
Gary Ryan Blair
Gene Brown
Gene Roddenberry
General Peter
Muhlenberg
2350. The most important thing about having goals is having one.
Geoffrey F. Abert
2351. When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need
to ask permission of other people or society at large. When
you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your
life.
Geoffrey F. Abert
2352. The real contest is always between what you've done and
what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against
yourself and nobody else.
Geoffrey Gaberino
2353. The most important thing about goals is having one.
Geoffry Abert
2354. He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the
end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Georg C.
Lichtenberg
2355. I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what
I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg C.
Lichtenberg
2356. If you are going to build something in the air it is always
better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg C.
Lichtenberg
2357. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and
one's last is to come to terms with everything.
2358. Death comes to all. But great achievements build a
monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
2359. To ensure peace of mind, ignore the rules and regulations.
Georg C.
Lichtenberg
Georg Fabricius
George Ade
2360. To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the
learner.
George Bernard
Leonard
2361. He knows nothing, he thinks he knows everything. That
points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard
Shaw
2362. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty,
and besides, the pig likes it.
2363. I want to be all used up when I die.
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Shaw
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2364. If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be
anything for us to do.
2365. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what
you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create
what you will.
2366. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
2367. Liberty means responsibility.
2368. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to
make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to
future generations.
George Bernard
Shaw
George Bernard
Shaw
George Bernard
Shaw
George Bernard
Shaw
George Bernard
Shaw
2369. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating
yourself.
George Bernard
Shaw
2370. No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer
is obvious.
George Bernard
Shaw
2371. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to
themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable
people.
George Bernard
Shaw
2372. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream
things that never were and ask why not.
George Bernard
Shaw
2373. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in
never making the same one a second time.
2374. The people who get on in this world are the people who get
up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't
find them, make them.
2375. The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not
react.
2376. The power of accurate observation is commonly called
cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard
Shaw
George Bernard
Shaw
George Bernard
Shaw
George Bernard
Shaw
2377. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable
man.
George Bernard
Shaw
2378. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by
the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard
Shaw
2379. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old
because we stop playing.
George Bernard
Shaw
2380. You see things and say, Why?, but I dream things and say,
Why not?
George Bernard
Shaw
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2381. Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and
a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to
wear some clothes, too.
2382. By the time you're eighty years old you've learned
everything. You only have to remember it.
George Burns
George Burns
2383. Define your business goals clearly so that others can see
them as you do.
George Burns
2384. Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear
anything else on it, like lunch or dinner.
George Burns
2385. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you
love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
2386. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at
something I hate.
George Burns
2387. Experience is something you don't get until just after you
need it.
George Carlin
2388. If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
George Carlin
2389. They're only truly great who are truly good.
2390. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who
holds the job.
2391. People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding
success because they don't know when to quit. Most men
succeed because they are determined to.
2392. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the
true failure.
2393. Do well and right, and let the world sink.
2394. The chief value in going to college is that it's the only way to
learn it really doesn't matter.
George Chapman
George Crane
George E. Allen
George E.
Woodberry
George Edward
Herbert
George Edwin
Howes
2395. It is never too late to be what we might have been.
George Eliot
2396. It is never too late to become what you might have been.
George Eliot
2397. No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
2398. There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
2399. There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
George Eliot
2400. 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not
make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
2401. What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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2402. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure
words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain
together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of
kindness, blow the rest away.
George Elliot
2403. Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport
derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a
circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of
competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving
to surpass, because they serves benchmarks of excellence
achieved under the pressure of competition.
George F. Will
2404. I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had
started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate
today.
2405. They never fail who die in a great cause.
2406. He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he
himself must pass.
George Foreman
George Gordon
Byron
George Herbert
2407. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert
2408. There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
George Herbert
2409. I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from
whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
George Herbert
Palmer
2410. Hope is the poor man's bread.
2411. Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of
events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.
George Herbet
George L. Morrisey
2412. Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times,
you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or
loses his courage and that's the same thing.
George Lorimer
2413. Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you
imagine it.
George Lucas
2414. To have what we want, is riches, but to be able to do without,
is power.
2415. We conquer not in any brilliant fashion, we conquer by
continuing.
2416. There is no such thing as a “self-made” man. We are made up
of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind
deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has
entered into the make-up of our character and of our
thoughts.
2417. The difficulty in life is choice.
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George MacDonald
George Matheson
George Matthew
Adams
George Moore
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2418. In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a
revolutionary act.
2419. You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get
somewhere.
2420. True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what
He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done
for Him.
2421. Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own
purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a
man's training to accomplish.
2422. A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
2423. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of
victory.
George Orwell
George P. Shultz
George R. Hendrick
George S. Clason
George S. Patton
George S. Patton
2424. Always do more than is required of you.
George S. Patton
2425. I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine
inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going,
someone must be on top, why not you?"
George S. Patton
2426. I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but
how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
2427. If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton
2428. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and
they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
2429. Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
2430. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you
reach for high goals.
George S. Patton
2431. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have
forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
2432. Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
George Santayana
2433. The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses
abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives
to bring everything.
George Santayana
2434. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an
arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
George Santayana
2435. He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he
will do very few things.
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2436. We are indeed masters, I told them. We are professors. We
are professionals. We have come into maturity. And we have
matured doing what appears to be childish things.
Nevertheless our Ability to live with questions and without
solutions began when we took to the roads. Our belief in
ourselves and in the living of our own lives developed through
our running. It was running that released the treasures in our
subconscious and gave us the creativity to put these
treasures in substantial form. Keep running, I told the forties,
fifties, and sixties looking up at me, the best is yet to come
2437. Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping
from the known to the unknown.
2438. On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless
millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and
waiting - died!
George Sheehan
George Shinn
George W. Cecil
2439. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every
man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the
attachment of friends.
George Washington
2440. How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the
striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because
someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington
Carver
2441. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who
have the habit of making excuses.
2442. When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon
way you will command the attention of the world.
2443. I have discovered that people with money have no
imagination, and people with imagination have no money.
2444. Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
2445. A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed I well
know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
2446. If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
2447. Dare! And dare again, and go on daring.
2448. Where I was born and where and how I have lived is
unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been
that should be of interest.
2449. The key to success is simple. Make people dream.
2450. Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender.
Mastery must yield to mystery.
2451. No way exists in the present to accurately determine the
future effect of the least of our actions.
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George Washington
Carver
George Washington
Carver
George Weiss
Rainbow
George William
Curtis
Georges
Clemenceau
Georges Guynemer
Georges J. Danton
Georgia O'Keefe
Gerald De Nerval
Gerald G. May
Gerald Jampolsky
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2452. The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can
be a failure.
Gerald N. Weiskott
2453. Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in
being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
2454. When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the
fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the
fault of the target. To improve your aim improve yourself.
2455. There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
2456. There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But
the real great man is the man who makes every man feel
great.
2457. Be aware that young people have to be able to make their
own mistakes and that times change.
2458. Imperfect action is better than no action.
2459. By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
2460. Power tires only those who do not have it.
2461. If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to
change.
2462. Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
2463. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your
envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
2464. The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not
react.
2465. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine
marriage and a career.
2466. If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
2467. Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking
is empowerment in itself.
Gilbert Arland
Gilbert K.
Chesterton
Gilbert K.
Chesterton
Gina Shapira
Giovanna Garcia
Giovanni Niccolini
Giulio Andreotti
Giuseppe Tomasi di
Lampedusa
Glenda Cloud
Glenn Clark
Gloria Anzaldua
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
2468. The first resistance to social change is to say it's not
necessary.
Gloria Steinem
2469. The future depends entirely on what each of us does every
day; a movement is only people moving.
Gloria Steinem
2470. Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to
autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be
vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
Gloria Steinem
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2471. Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the
excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of
planning.
2472. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must
regard himself as greater than he is.
Gloria Steinem
Goethe
2473. Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts
into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Goethe
2474. To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must
overestimate his capacities.
Goethe
2475. I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question
of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing
to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda Meir
2476. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart
don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
2477. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Golda Meir
2478. Man is always more than he can know of himself;
consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come
as a surprise to him.
2479. Please don’t nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set
goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what
you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will
accept of your effort.
2480. Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might
want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you don't do it.
Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try,
don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone
might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It
can destroy you.
2481. It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not
just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and
discovering.
2482. With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's
opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be
avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can
so you can make progress rapidly.
2483. Your life, time, and brain should belong to you, not to an
institution.
2484. For every force, there is a counterforce. For every negative,
there is a positive. For every action, there is a reaction. For
every cause, there is an effect.
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Golo Mann
Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon Mackenzie
Gordon Moore
Grace Lwellyn
Grace Speare
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2485. When you think something, you think in picture. You don't
think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses
your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into
your experience.
2486. It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.
2487. Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to
give us something beyond our wishes.
2488. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by
dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs
expressing, then we truly live life.
2489. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by
dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs
expressing - then we truly live life.
2490. Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting
them at the right level, neither too low nor too high.
2491. The excellence is in the details.
Grace Speare
Graeme Edwards
Greg Anderson
Greg Anderson
Greg Anderson
Greg Norman
Gregory L. Sullivan
2492. Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you
money.
2493. A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.
2494. If you help others you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow,
perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature
must pay off the debt.
2495. You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you
really need is understanding.
2496. We believe we can create public awareness of an issue by
reaching one percent of the people. A metal is considered a
magnet if one percent of it is polarized.
Groucho Marx
Gunderson
Gurdjieff
Guy Finley
Gwen Evans
2497. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly, very slowly.
Gypsy Rose Lee
2498. The man who wins may have been counted out several times,
but he didn’t hear the referee.
H. E. Jansen
2499. Human history becomes more and more a race between
education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
2500. If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells
2501. What on Earth would a man do with himself if something did
not stand in his way.
H. G. Wells
2502. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the
stream always wins not through strength but by
perseverance.
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2503. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get
it.
2504. Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be
done.
2505. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown,
Jr.
H. Jackson Brown,
Jr.
H. Jackson Brown,
Jr.
2506. Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to
exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt
2507. Each is responsible for his own actions.
H. L. Hunt
2508. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it
is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is
better to know than to be ignorant.
2509. Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove
one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
2510. Most people give up just when they're about to achieve
success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the
last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
H. L. Mencken
H. Robert Schuller
H. Ross Perot
2511. Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at
our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become
successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to
lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
H. Ross Perot
2512. A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination
and usually the best way to get there.
H. Stanley Judd
2513. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up
failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next
challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not
growing.
H. Stanley Judd
2514. The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
H. Stanley Judd
2515. The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his
enthusiasm.
2516. I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and
I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day
was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm
going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of
success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.
But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn
from it.
H. W. Arnold
Hank Aaron
2517. Dance to the rising of the bread.
Hank Lohmann
2518. The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
Hannah Arendt
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2519. What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from
earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in
action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's
own efforts.
Hannah Arendt
2520. Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
Hannah More
2521. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take
your eyes off your goal.
Hannah More
2522. The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly
given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not
and never persist in trying to set people right.
2523. Thirty-five years earlier, before the relapse of my dystrophy, I
couldn't have done what I've done. I was a businesswoman, I
had a shop, I was in a marriage, and I was a conformist. I
probably had to go through all this to come out at the other
end, to be sort of hit on the head and to realize that my
former life wasn't all that good and that it was time to try
something else.
2524. We will either find a way or make one!
Hannah Whitall
Smith
Hanni Sager
Hannibal
2525. Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb
with care and confidence.
Hans Christian
Andersen
2526. Just living is not enough, One must have sunshine, freedom,
and a little flower.
Hans Christian
Anderson
2527. The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so
that the necessary may speak.
2528. Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes
him a slave to the power of others.
2529. One's determination will lead to others success.
2530. Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly
look for fruit on it in autumn.
2531. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude
and in actions.
2532. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life
as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its
own fullness, not by its reception.
Hans Hofmann
Hans J. Morgenthau
Haran Alal
Hare Charles
Harold Geneen
Harold Loukes
2533. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or
mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan
2534. Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned.
To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.
Harold Mayfield
2535. Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we
give our best at each level of experience.
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2536. Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth
mental, financial, you name it.
Harold S. Geneen
2537. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold S. Hulbert
2538. Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of
nature, but precisely because they obey them.
Harold S. Kushner
2539. Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and
doing things as they ought to be done.
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
2540. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute
longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
2541. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is
demoralizing.
2542. No vision and you perish; No ideal, and you're lost; Your
heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope,
some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some
melody to sing to, Some service that is high.
Harriet Braiker
Harriet Du
Autermont
2543. Only through our connectedness to others can we really know
and enhance the self. And only through working on the self
can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
Harriet Goldhor
Lerner
2544. Always remember you have within you the strength, the
patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the
world.
Harriet Tubman
2545. We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a
second chance.
2546. Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't
stop a wise man from trying.
2547. You are where you are today because you've chosen to be
there.
2548. You don't need an explanation for everything, recognize that
there are such things as miracles events for which there are
no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those
events quite easily.
2549. We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
2550. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous
daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and
undertake the most interesting game in the world making the
most of one's best.
2551. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says
it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Harrison Ford
Harry Anderson
Harry Browne
Harry Browne
Harry Edwards
Harry Emerson
Fosdick
Harry Emerson
Fosdick
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2552. Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things
better.
Harry F. Banks
2553. I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come
true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and
where success is only another form of failure if we forget what
our priorities should be.
Harry Lloyd
2554. Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our
priorities should be.
Harry Lloyd
2555. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities
and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his
difficulties.
Harry S. Truman
2556. Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S. Truman
2557. I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at
Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He
done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a
man can have.
Harry S. Truman
2558. I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours
doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when
you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So
when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and
forget it.
Harry S. Truman
2559. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
2560. Study men, not historians.
Harry S. Truman
2561. The buck stops here.
Harry S. Truman
2562. Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a
great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. Truman
2563. When I studied the lives of great men and women I found
that the men and women who got to the top were those who
did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of
energy, enthusiasm, and hard work.
Harry S. Truman
2564. When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.
Harry S. Truman
2565. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made
a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define
yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
2566. A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a
deadline.
Harvey Mackay
2567. Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay
2568. No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
Harvey Mackay
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2569. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a
Wilderness.
2570. A goal is a planned event.
Havelock Ellis
Hayrum W. Smith
2571. If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic
principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we
are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know
enough to be pessimistic.
2572. What you can become you are already.
2573. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
2574. The only thing that separates successful people from the ones
who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
2575. My mother drew a distinction between achievement and
success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you
have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in
you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not
as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and
forget about success.
Hazel Henderson
Hebbel Friedrich
Hector Louis Berlioz
Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Hayes
2576. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
2577. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only
through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
2578. Everything, even darkness and silence, has its wonders.
Helen Keller
2579. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and
noble.
2580. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and
noble.
2581. I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found
myself, my work, and my God.
2582. It gives me a deep, comforting sense that things seen are
temporal and things unseen are eternal.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
2583. It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for
powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire
forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward
our distant goal.
Helen Keller
2584. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the
shadow. It's what sunflowers do.
Helen Keller
2585. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the
shadows.
Helen Keller
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2586. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be
understood.
Helen Keller
2587. One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to
soar.
Helen Keller
2588. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can
be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
2589. Optimism is the father that leads to achievement.
Helen Keller
2590. Security is mostly a superstition. It is not found in nature and
children of man do not as a whole experience it. Avoiding
danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life
is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
2591. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be
seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
2592. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams.
Helen Keller
2593. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no
vision.
Helen Keller
2594. True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but
through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
2595. We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
2596. When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is
wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
2597. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
2598. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be
troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
2599. For purposes of action nothing is more useful than
narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
2600. Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has
succeeded. They are not extraordinary they are in the true
order. It is the other species of men who are not what they
ought to be.
Henri Bergson
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2601. He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own
nature, is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
2602. Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but
according to our powers.
2603. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to
go on creating oneself endlessly.
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2604. Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and
keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the
knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our
refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can
take God away from us. Joy is the experience of knowing that
you are unconditionally loved and that nothing sickness,
failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death
can take that love away.
2605. Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility,
like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can
give forth it's spark.
2606. Castles in the air. They are so easy to take refuge in. And so
easy to build too.
2607. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another
is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
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2608. Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money,
power and influence.
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2609. A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a
book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in
housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the
universe, not of the cars.
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Thoreau
2610. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can
afford to let alone.
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2611. A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a
complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
2612. A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must
soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I
began by reading, I must finish by acting.
2613. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
2614. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for
something.
2615. Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants
enhance the beauty of the landscape!
2616. All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape
the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish
spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to
face the future as finishers.
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2617. All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends
them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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2618. All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of
some wise man.
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2619. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
2620. An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
2621. Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
2622. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a
single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make
a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a
deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of
thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
2623. As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
2624. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
2625. As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the
causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of
society.
2626. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be
simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be
poverty, nor weakness weakness.
2627. Be not simply good; be good for something.
2628. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
2629. Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a
thousand years.
2630. Being is the great explainer.
2631. Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
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2632. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit
inheritance of generations and nations.
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Thoreau
2633. Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
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2634. Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they
do us this service we lay them aside.
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2635. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through
each other's eyes for an instant?
2636. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient
must be slaves.
2637. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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2638. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life
so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for
something.
2639. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him
who does it for love of it.
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2640. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether
clothes or friends...Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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2641. Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are
where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Thoreau
2642. Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything
else.
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2643. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it,
unearth it, and gnaw it still.
2644. Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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2645. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and
pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather
preserve its life than destroy it.
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Thoreau
2646. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows
religiously the new.
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Thoreau
2647. Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his
imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which
way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at
eve. Did you never see it?
2648. Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
2649. Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I
should not believe.
2650. Faith never makes a confession.
2651. Friends...they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to
one another's dreams.
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2652. Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
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2653. Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is
the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
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2654. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life
you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the
universe will be simpler.
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2655. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life
you have imagined.
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2656. God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is
presented to us.
2657. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
2658. Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame
among the great who have preceded them, and all true
worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the
stars.
2659. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
2660. How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
2661. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying
the experiment of living?
2662. How does it become a man to behave towards the American
government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace
be associated with it.
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2663. How many things there are concerning which we might well
deliberate whether we had better know them.
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Thoreau
2664. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood
up to live.
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2665. However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it
and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,
like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,
whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change.
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
2666. I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective
criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed
with some bitterness.
2667. I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before
the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best
see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go
below now.
2668. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for
friendship, three for society.
2669. I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the
morning when nobody calls.
2670. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the
day I was born.
2671. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
2672. I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
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2673. I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common
hours.
2674. I have never found a companion that was so companionable
as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go
abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A
man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he
will.
2675. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable
ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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2676. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable
ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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Thoreau
2677. I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and
not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Thoreau
2678. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to
front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not
learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
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Thoreau
2679. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to
front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not
learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
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Thoreau
2680. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than
be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Thoreau
2681. If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the
music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.
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Thoreau
2682. If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends
his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and
making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an
industrious and enterprising citizen.
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Thoreau
2683. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will
meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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Thoreau
2684. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it
requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I
say, break the law.
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Thoreau
2685. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it
requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I
say, break the law.
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2686. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find
compensation in every disappointment.
2687. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be
lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations
under them.
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2688. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
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Thoreau
2689. Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and
skill without.
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Thoreau
2690. In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is
misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not
understood.
2691. In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
2692. In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore,
though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at
something high.
2693. In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
2694. Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
2695. Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more
venerable than the oldest man.
2696. It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy
with both man and nature.
2697. It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
2698. It is an interesting question how far men would retain their
relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
2699. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
2700. It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where
you are...than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them,
and think that you are in paradise.
2701. It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
2702. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is:
What are we busy about?
2703. It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it
is to make sheep ferocious.
2704. It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to
know.
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2705. It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at
all.
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2706. It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at
all.
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Thoreau
2707. It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than
the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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2708. It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his
fate.
2709. It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to
hear.
2710. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
2711. Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the
drink, taste the fruit, and enjoy the influences of each.
2712. Live the life you've dreamed.
2713. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
2714. Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
2715. Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and
integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
2716. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it
is not fish they are after.
2717. May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our
love!
2718. Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
2719. Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of
proportion to the use they commonly serve.
2720. Men have become the tools of their tools.
2721. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
2722. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave
with the song still in them.
2723. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the
elevation of mankind.
2724. Nature and human life are as various as our several
constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to
another?
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2725. Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a
snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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2726. Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals
ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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2727. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay
our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view
of its plain.
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2728. Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds
within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of
thought.
2729. Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
2730. Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
2731. No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at
last as the truth. This alone wears well.
2732. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
2733. Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for
something.
2734. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
2735. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks.
The best you can write will be the best you are.
2736. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends
at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
2737. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
2738. Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
2739. Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
2740. Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often
imprisoned rather than housed by them.
2741. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our
attention from serious things. They are but improved means
to an unimproved end.
2742. Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify.
2743. Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no
particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have
left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon
reminded of them.
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2744. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
2745. Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you
can walk with love and reverence.
2746. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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2747. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to
read them at all.
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2748. Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly
leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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2749. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as
two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. Simplify,
simplify.
2750. Simplify, simplify.
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2751. Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens
that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
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Thoreau
2752. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be
looking for it.
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Thoreau
2753. Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as
the earth.
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2754. That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
2755. Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor
with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
2756. The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from
observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or
Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which
others have detected.
2757. The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
2758. The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which
is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long
run.
2759. The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like
the strings of an instrument.
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2760. The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but
the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure
with a liberal allowance of time.
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2761. The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but
wherever a man fronts a fact.
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2762. The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when
one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
2763. The heart is forever inexperienced.
2764. The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
2765. The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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2766. The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is
an intelligence above language.
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2767. The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got
to make the law free.
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2768. The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a
consistent expediency.
2769. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that
day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to
dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
2770. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels
with another must wait till that other is ready.
2771. The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
2772. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
2773. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
2774. The perception of beauty is a moral test.
2775. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for
it.
2776. The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
2777. The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
2778. The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of
happiness.
2779. The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
2780. The universe is wider than our views of it.
2781. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the
moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at
length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed
with them.
2782. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one
who is striking at the root.
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who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows
the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing
the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he
strives in vain to relieve.
who is striking at the root.
2785. There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than
we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
2786. There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are
becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
2787. There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their
example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very
hour above the common level of my life.
2788. There is always a present and extant life, be it better or
worse, which all combine to uphold.
2789. There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
2790. There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is
absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
2791. There is more of good nature than of good sense at the
bottom of most marriages.
2792. There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
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2793. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the
greater part of his life getting his living.
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2794. There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness
tainted.
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2795. There is no remedy for love but to love more.
2796. There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our
suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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2797. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon
it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it
yourself.
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2798. There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the
possibility that you may recover to a better state than you
were ever in before.
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2799. There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of
philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should
be.
2800. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor
wines in the cellar.
2801. Things do not change, we do.
2802. Things do not change; we change.
2803. This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
2804. Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are
indifferent.
2805. Through our own recovered innocence we discern the
innocence of our neighbors.
2806. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
2807. 'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
2808. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they
who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
2809. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
2810. To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is
excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside
the curtain.
2811. To have done anything just for money is to have been truly
idle.
2812. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend
on darkness and ignorance.
2813. Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned
chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrongdoing.
2814. Truths and roses have thorns about them.
2815. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true
place for a just man is also a prison.
2816. We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we
suspect.
2817. We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each
other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
2818. We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Thoreau
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2819. We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by
mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David
Thoreau
2820. We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and
then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David
Thoreau
2821. We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what
we see.
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
2822. We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
2823. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
2824. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
2825. What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the
laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
2826. What is once well done is done forever.
2827. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable
planet to put it on?
2828. What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny
matters compared to what lives within us.
2829. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you
can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
2830. What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as
what you become by achieving your goals.
2831. Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau
2832. What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable
planet to put it on?
Henry David
Thoreau
2833. When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see
no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David
Thoreau
2834. Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect
that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David
Thoreau
2835. While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not
equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has
created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen
and kings.
Henry David
Thoreau
2836. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in
such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with
his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer.
Henry David
Thoreau
2837. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David
Thoreau
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2838. Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
2839. Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
2840. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford
2841. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to
a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
2842. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin
again.
Henry Ford
2843. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time
more intelligently.
Henry Ford
2844. I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely
what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
2845. If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view and see things from that
person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford
2846. If you think you can do a thing, or think you can’t do a thing,
you’re right.
Henry Ford
2847. It has been my observation that most people get ahead
during the time that others waste time.
2848. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
2849. Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible
when we take our eyes off our goals.
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
2850. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to
make money to do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
2851. There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing
more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
2852. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after
directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful
service.
Henry Ford
2853. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are
usually right.
Henry Ford
2854. You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
Henry Ford
2855. In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that
matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
Henry Havelock Ellis
2856. I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't
dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
Henry J. Kaiser
2857. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
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2858. Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult
problem.
Henry Kissinger
2859. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they
are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
2860. The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life
is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in
patient perseverance
2861. A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind
all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and
as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine
of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it
may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how
timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a
loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.
2862. One never knows what each day is going to bring. The
important thing is to be open and ready for it.
Henry Liddon
Henry Louis
Mencken
Henry Moore
2863. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter
Brougham
2864. Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and
attend to this, leaving all else alone.
Henry Suso
2865. I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I
found that the men and women who got to the top were those
who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had
of energy and enthusiasm.
2866. Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang except those that sang best.
2867. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate,
you are sure to wake up somebody.
2868. If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
2869. In all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
2870. It is a sublime thing to suffer and be stronger.
Henry Truman
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
2871. It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you
did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
2872. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still
achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
2873. Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock
long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to
wake up somebody.
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2874. Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than
from his virtues.
2875. Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
2876. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not
obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions
slept Were toiling upward in the night.
2877. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you
can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought
of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved,
not because it is sought after.
2878. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its
dead! Act, —act in the living Present! Heart within and God
o'erhead.
2879. Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
2880. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
2881. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up,
that makes us rich.
2882. It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that
determines the success of a voyage.
2883. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that
one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong
won't.
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry Ward
Beecher
Henry Ward
Beecher
Henry Ward
Beecher
Henry Ward
Beecher
Henry Ward
Beecher
2884. Everything flows; nothing remains.
Heraclitus
2885. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the
same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus
2886. Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
2887. Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
2888. The road up and the road down are one and the same.
Heraclitus
2889. There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
2890. You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters
are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus
2891. If you don't know where you are going, you can never get
lost.
Herb Cohen
2892. You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we
are.
Herb Cohen
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2893. The more I talk to athletes, the more convinced I become
that the method of training is relatively unimportant. There
are many ways to the top, and the training method you
choose is just the one that suits you best. No, the important
thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the
top.
Herb Elliot
2894. To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims
that transcend himself.
Herbert A. Otto
2895. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you
the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard
Swope
2896. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover
2897. You have to go into the jungle, find the lion, and spit in his
face, then shoot him. You people are not good enough to win
on talent alone, you have to want it.
Herbie Brooks
2898. Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from
within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that
allow people to motivate themselves.
Herman Cain
2899. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to
success. If you love what you are doing, you will be
successful.
Herman Cain
2900. But never forget ... our mission is to recognize contraries for
what they are: first of all as contraries, but then as opposite
poles of a unity.
Herman Hesse
2901. A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer.
Herman Melville
2902. The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the
presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels
like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
Herman Melville
2903. All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their
ideals are threatened.
Hermann Hesse
2904. Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we
have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the
world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse
2905. The truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann Hesse
2906. Some men give up their designs when they have almost
reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a
victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts
than ever before.
2907. The most prolific period of pessimism comes at 21, or
thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate
dreams into reality.
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2908. The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not
teach.
2909. The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of
human blessings. Let food be your Medicine.
2910. Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking
down.
Hillel
Hippocrates
Hitopadesa
2911. Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer
2912. 'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
Homer
2913. Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of
thought believe in providence.
Honore De Balzac
2914. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honoré de Balzac
2915. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking
true.
Honoré de Balzac
2916. To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be
led by permanent ideals that is what keeps a man patient
when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when
the world praises him.
Honoré de Balzac
2917. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in
prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
2918. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
2919. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Seize the day,
put no trust in tomorrow.
Horace
Horace
Horace
2920. He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
2921. He who has begun has half done.
Horace
2922. Life gives nothing to man without labor.
Horace
2923. Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
2924. It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
2925. People forget how fast you did a job but they remember how
well you did it.
2926. I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of
people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
2927. Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come
alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people
who have come alive.
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Howard Newton
Howard Stern
Howard Thurman
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2928. When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was
just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith the idea
that I can do it is the opposite of fear (What if I fail?). And
faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment,
hard work, preparation, and eventually success.
Howard Twilley
2929. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
People forget how fast you did a job but they remember how
well you did it.
Howard W. Newton
2930. People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how
well you did it.
Howard W. Newton
2931. If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no
brilliant achievement.
2932. Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.
Hsun-tzu
Hubert Green
2933. It was once said that the moral test of government is how
that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the
children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and
those who are in the shadows of life the sick, the needy and
the handicapped.
Hubert H.
Humphrey
2934. It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what
you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey
2935. Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that
counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey
2936. Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while
intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he
compares the two.
2937. Miracles? You do not have to look for them. They are there,
24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the
antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in,
every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...
2938. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise
of the body; the two are ever united.
2939. If a pit bull romances your leg, fake an orgasm.
2940. Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos.
Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must
look foolish to the crowd.
2941. It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only
based on a very small subset of the universe.
Hugh B. Brown
Hugh Elliott
Humboldt
Hut Landon
I Ching
Ian J. Davenport
2942. We had one fan who made action figures of all of us. Mine had
a mirror, which I thought was a bit cheeky.
Ian Watkins
2943. If you have confidence, you have patience. Confidence, that is
everything.
Ilie Nastase
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2944. Experience without theory is blind, but theory without
experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
2945. Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good
one.
Indira Gandhi
2946. Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now.
You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first
step right away.
Indira Gandhi
step right away.
Indira Gandhi
step right away.
Indira Gandhi
2949. If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I
know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of
the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi
2950. My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of
people: those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less
competition.
Indira Gandhi
2951. One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without
money, and those who want to do everything with money.
Indira Gandhi
2952. People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira Gandhi
2953. The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the
headlines.
Indira Gandhi
2954. The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi
2955. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and
those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there
is less competition there.
2956. There is not love where there is no will.
2957. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing
change.
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Ingrid Bengis
2958. I've never sought success in order to get fame and money;
it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
Ingrid Bergman
2959. You can do so much in 10 minutes' time. Ten minutes, once
gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units
and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless
activity.
Ingvar Kamprad
2960. The greatest discoveries have come from people who have
looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.
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2961. Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and
cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Irene Kassorla
2962. Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Irene Peter
2963. Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything
has changed.
Irene Peter
2964. God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people
to use.
Iron Eagle
2965. The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to
keep on being a success.
2966. If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're
going.
2967. Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
2968. There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true
about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers,
and I would say we only have learned a very, very small part
of what it can do.
2969. We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he
thinks, but by his actions.
2970. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of
giants.
2971. Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience,
knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if
I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share
it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving
that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
2972. We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
2973. Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone
get in your way. If they do, step on them.
2974. Life is meant for living. I know that sounds simplistic, but how
many days do you let slip by without really doing something,
accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle
change?
2975. Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when
they're winning?
2976. You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but
you gotta suit up for them all.
2977. The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but
queerer than we can suppose.
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Irwin Corey
Isaac Bashevis
Singer
Isaac Bashevis
Singer
Isaac Bashevis
Singer
Isaac Newton
Isabel Allende
Isak Dineson
Ivan Benson
Ivana Trump
Ivern Ball
J. Askenberg
J. B. S. Haldane
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2978. Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in
others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his
neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things
are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
J. C. Hare
2979. Either you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution
or you're just part of the landscape.
J. D. Zeik
2980. Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple
determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
2981. Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is
almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction
because it is already there.
2982. Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
2983. You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be
something in the world, and you will be something. I cannot,
never accomplished anything; I will try, has wrought
wonders.
2984. We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the
power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power
to imagine better.
J. Donald Walters
J. G. Ballard
J. G. Gallimore
J. Hawes
J. K. Rowling
2985. The mind has to explore every corner of itself, leaving no spot
uncovered, because if there is a single dark corner of one's
mind which one is afraid to explore, from that springs illusion
J. Krishnamurti
2986. Any person who recognizes this greatest power, the power to
choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the
choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot
do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently,
he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability,
upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.
J. Martin Kohe
2987. The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to
choose.
2988. People spend too much time finding other people to blame,
too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are
capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves
on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their
lives.
2989. In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst
enemy.
2990. He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path
of wisdom.
2991. Hope is hope for infinite Hope.
J. Michael
Straczynski
J. Paul Getty
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
2992. The progress of the world is the history of those who would
not permit defeat to speak the final word.
J. Martin Kohe
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2993. The optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true.
2994. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind
the stronger the trees.
2995. As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your
goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will
be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result.
Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost
right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of
the process of eventually getting it right.
2996. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those
who are doing it.
2997. If you think there's a problem in the world, you don't wait for
other people to fix it. You have to try to fix it yourself.
2998. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on
change, you will get results.
J. Robert
Oppenheimer
J. Willard Marriott
Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield
Jack Davis, age 11
Jack Dixon
2999. When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian
3000. High achievement always takes place in the framework of
high expectation.
Jack Kinder
3001. Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy,
your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or
your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your
program every thirty days. That's the key.
Jack LaLanne
3002. Stay humble. Always answer the phone, no matter who else is
in the car.
Jack Lemmon
3003. I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that spark
should burn out in a brilliant blaze Than it should be stilled by
dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me
in a significant glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
Jack London
3004. The simple function of man is to live, not just exist.
Jack London
3005. I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very
sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball
where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on
the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I
see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even
its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and
the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will
turn the previous images into reality.
3006. It ain't easy to get movers and shakers to believe in you until
you have a track record. So go make your own track and
build your own record.
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3007. Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
3008. Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging
part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch
3009. Do not let circumstances control you. You change your
circumstances.
3010. I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the
rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack
showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split
in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that
had gone before.
3011. Some defeats are only installments to victory.
3012. It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with
tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if
they cannot find it.
3013. We have to understand the world can only be grasped by
action, not by comtemplation. The hand is more important
than the eye...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
3014. If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we
are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have
faith and we have hope, and we can work.
3015. Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so
not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of
internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints.
They get in a rut. They go to seed.
Jackie Chan
Jacob A. Riis
Jacob A. Riis
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski
Jacques Cousteau
James A. Garfield
3016. A man is literally what he thinks.
James Allen
3017. Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your
ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
3018. For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why
not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen
3019. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
James Allen
3020. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are
unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain
bound.
3021. The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
3022. The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is
making them come true.
3023. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great
as your dominant aspiration.
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James Allen
James Allen
James Allen
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3024. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is
the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
James Allen
3025. Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers
the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the
garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through
which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes,
discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one
the power to change one's robes.
James Arthur
Baldwin
3026. Life is a long lesson in humility.
James Barrie
3027. The secret of happiness is not in doing what we like to do, but
in liking what we have to do.
James Barrie
3028. There are never any problems, only solutions.
James Barry
3029. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a
soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
3030. It is not a matter of exposing one's unchanging identity, the
true self that has always been, but a way of exposing one's
ceaseless growth, the dynamic self that has yet to be.
3031. To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be
prepared for surprise is to be educated.
James Buckham
James Carse
James Carse
3032. Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get
even.
James Carville
3033. You become a champion by fighting one more round. When
things are tough, you fight one more round.
James Corbett
3034. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
3035. Let us do or die.
3036. A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of
the next generation.
3037. It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's
that some people are ready to change and others are not.
3038. When you can, always advise people to do what you see they
really want to do, Doing what they want to do, they may
succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't.
3039. Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plough,
love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps
who went about continually doing good.
3040. Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the
infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized
about us.
3041. Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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James Dean
James Drummond
Burns
James Freeman
Clarke
James Gordon
James Gould
Cozzens
James Hamilton
James Harvey
Robinson
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3042. The most important man in the room is the one who knows
what to do next.
James L. Webb
3043. In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results,
and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Lane Allen
3044. The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you
enthrone in your heart ?this you will build your life by, and
this you will become.
James Lane Allen
3045. One reason God created time was so that there would be a
place to bury the failures of the past.
James Long
3046. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
James Lowell
3047. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in
liking what one does.
James M. Barrie
3048. You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip
by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let
them slip by.
James M. Barrie
3049. The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with
reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are
surrendered to reality.
3050. Hope equals desire accompanied by expectation
3051. The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by
those who merely talk about them.
3052. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise
grows it under his feet.
James Michener
James Nichols III
James Oliver
James Oppenheim
3053. It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is
never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond
his grasp.
James Ramsey
Ullman
3054. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is
temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure
to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell
Lowell
3055. Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments
in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
3056. In creating, the only hard thing is to begin.
3057. Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?
James Russell
Lowell
James Russell
Lowell
James Stephens
3058. All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are
running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
3059. It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the
answers.
James Thurber
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3060. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around
in awareness.
James Thurber
3061. You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far
backward.
James Thurber
3062. If you're there before it's over, you're on time.
3063. The most essential factor is persistence, the determination
never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by
the discouragement that must inevitably come.
3064. Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision,
and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.
James Walker
James Whitcomb
Riley
James Womack
3065. There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified,
all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a
change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you
can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes
from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are
special people.
Jan Ashford
3066. I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be
ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it
to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is
important.
Jan Carlzon
3067. Time wounds all heels.
Jane Ace
3068. It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes.
And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.
Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
3069. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Jane Ellice Hopkins
3070. The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no
matter what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have
imagination, you can make feast of straw.
Jane Stanton
Hitchcock
3071. Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
3072. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arany
3073. I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to
be something to someone.
3074. Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action,
gives me satisfaction.
3075. Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived
ends.
Javan
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
3076. Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives
and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru
3077. It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is
acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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3078. Plan your work, then work your plan.
Jay Virgil Mayhugh
3079. We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of
them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they
are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean De La Bruyère
3080. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
3081. Only the mediocre are always at their best.
3082. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is
boundless.
3083. We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid;
foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we
need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
3084. Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't
permanent.
Jean Giraudoux
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
Jean Kerr
3085. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Jean Paul Richter
3086. Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good
action; try to use ordinary situations.
Jean Paul Richter
3087. Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it
charm.
Jean Paul Richter
3088. You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Jean Paul Richter
3089. The principle goal of education is to create men who are
capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what
other generations have done, men who are creative, inventive
and discoverers.
Jean Piaget
3090. Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only
enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it.
Contemplate it only enough to be it.
3091. We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid;
foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we
need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
3092. You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would
like them to go.
3093. I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and
the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely
disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of
technological change. But with our abundance of talent and
resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of
social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest
contribution.
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Jean Toomer
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
Jeannette Rankin
Jeff Skoll
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3094. Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the
world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you
believe in. In my case, I like to support causes where "a lot of
good comes from a little bit of good," or, in other words,
where the positive social returns vastly exceed the amount of
time and money invested.
Jeff Skoll
3095. Take action every day - some small dose at a time.
Jeffrey Gitomer
3096. If I was perfect, then you would be coming to my house to
pray to me.
Jeffrey L. Keller
3097. A winner is a dreamer who never quits.
3098. A challenge is easlier accomplished by effort than by lack of
effort.
3099. I've learned one thing during my time on the soccer fields:
It's amazing how fast you can run and the things you can do
when you have a goal in mind. It applies to the rest of my
life, too.
3100. Winners are losers that got lucky.
3101. You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel
yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you
should do, do it.
3102. Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world
knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or
encouragement - and we will make the goal.
3103. I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went
back and did it another way, and still took less time than
many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your
brain is capable of handling 140,000 million bits of
information in one second, and if you take hours or days or
weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your
most valuable property.
3104. The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it
will be for you.
3105. You will recognize your own path when you come upon it,
because you will suddenly have all the energy and
imagination you will ever need.
3106. It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're
breaking new ground.
3107. Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't
think you can, you won't.
3108. We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't,
it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the
preconceptions.
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Jenni
Jeremy Long
Jeremy Monnin
Jeremy Smallwood
Jerome Brunet
Jerome P.
Fleishman
Jerry Gillies
Jerry Gillies
Jerry Gillies
Jerry Greenfield
Jerry West
Jessamyn West
179
3109. I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any
more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent;
and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred
percent the next day.
Jesse Barfield
3110. God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
Jesse Jackson
3111. No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free
to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a
right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to
surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson
3112. When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to
you.
Jessica Lange
3113. Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do
what you like with him afterwards.
Jesuit Maxim
3114. It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as
merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it
as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in
itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is
the day the word "human" disappears from the race.
Jill Tweedie
3115. Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all
afternoon.
Jilly Cooper
3116. Good is the enemy of great. Most people will look back and
realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy
to settle for a good life.
3117. The impossible is often the untried.
3118. Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea
is too crazy.
3119. I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not
even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time
survivors.
Jim Collins
Jim Goodwin
Jim Hightower
Jim Kaat
3120. With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights;
without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are
beyond your grasp.
Jim Loehr
3121. Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built.
Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Jim Rohn
3122. Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and
wanting more.
3123. For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
3124. Formal education will make you a living, self education will
make you a fortune.
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Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
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3125. Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get
inspired by them.There's no telling what you can do when you
believe in them.There's no telling what will happen when you
act upon them.
3126. I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with
better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because
escape is easier than change.
3127. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to
settle for the ordinary.
3128. If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall
into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned
for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
3129. If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on
you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work
on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
3130. Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue
all that you want.
Jim Rohn
3131. Reasons come first. Answers come second.
Jim Rohn
3132. Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the
natural consequence of consistently applying the basic
fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
3133. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the
person you become.
Jim Rohn
3134. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines,
practiced every day.
Jim Rohn
3135. The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the
amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that
you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.
Jim Rohn
3136. The guy says, When you work where I work, by the time you
get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a
little TV, relax, and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night
planning, planning. And he's the same guy who's behind on
his car payment.
Jim Rohn
3137. The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of
you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the
far greater value than what you get.
Jim Rohn
3138. The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what
one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt
wondering if something could have materialized, never
knowing.
Jim Rohn
3139. There are two ways to face the future. One way is with
apprehension; the other is with anticipation.
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3140. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by
them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in
them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon
them.
Jim Rohn
3141. We all have two choices; We can make a living or we can
design a life.
Jim Rohn
3142. We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past
the short term obstacles.
Jim Rohn
3143. We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away
any chance we might have for a future feast.
Jim Rohn
3144. We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
Jim Rohn
3145. When the promise is clear,the price gets easy.
Jim Rohn
3146. When you know what you want, and you want it badly
enough, you'll find away to get it
Jim Rohn
3147. Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for
greatness, great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great
reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn
3148. You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you
bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn
3149. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you
going.
3150. How do you go from where you are to where you want to be?
I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to
have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for
it.
3151. The Bible insists that the best test of a nation's righteousness
is how it treats the poorest and most vulnerable in its midst.
3152. We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different
people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes,
different dreams.
3153. You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
3154. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on
your way down.
3155. Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow
through on those dreams.
3156. Action is the antidote to despair.
Jim Valvano
Jim Wallis
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Durante
Jinger Heath
Joan Baez
3157. Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll
show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Jim Ryun
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3158. Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as
“sentimental,” “impractical, or “womanish,” etc., by those
whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake.
3159. The best direction is the least possible direction.
3160. Oh, grow up!
Joan Gilbert
Joan Manley
Joan Rivers
3161. I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of
achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the
gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not
know.
Joanna Field
3162. I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots, hitting it
high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range
and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course
confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there.
My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the
ball in any circumstance.
JoAnne Carner
3163. All honor to him who shall win the prize, The world has cried
for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies,
I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller
3164. I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of
people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.
Joe Carter
3165. There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first
or last time. I owe him my best.
Joe DiMaggio
3166. Don't tell me how rough the seas are. Just get the ship in.
3167. You guys think I have an endless supply of whiffle dust that I
shake around to solve all of your problems with. I've got news
for ya. I'm all out of whiffle dust.
3168. You have to make it happen.
Joe Gardi
Joe Gardi
Joe Greene
3169. True success is the undeniable truth that we have proved
ourselves.
Joe LuppinoEsposito
3170. What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have
to do.
Joe Namath
3171. You have to perform at a consistently higher level than
others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
3172. Thorough preparation makes its own luck.
Joe Poyer
3173. It takes time to save time.
Joe Taylor
3174. Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision
just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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3175. The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but
to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the
future.
3176. Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision
just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
3177. If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent
to be taught many things which you already know.
Joel Barker
Joel Barker
Johann Caspar
Lavater
3178. The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above
average by what they are.
Johann Friedrich
Von Schiller
3179. Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Johann G. Fichte
3180. Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good
action to all eternity
3181. Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
3182. A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
3183. A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
3184. A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
3185. As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
3186. Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
3187. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
3188. Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be
beaten, but they may start a winning game.
3189. Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
3190. Doubt can only be removed by action.
3191. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the
hearts of men.
3192. Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
3193. Everyone hears only what he understands.
3194. I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The
greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact
that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They
have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor
on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
3195. If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their
whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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Johann Lavater
Johann Schiller
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
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3196. Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound
together.
3197. Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole
world will be clean.
3198. Man errs as long as he strives.
3199. Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
3200. No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
3201. Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the
torrent of the world.
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
3202. Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts
into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
3203. To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the
world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
3204. Treat a man as he is; he will remain as he is. Treat a man as
he can and should be; and he will become as he can and
should be.
3205. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you
help them to become what they are capable of being.
3206. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness
has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.
3207. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact
gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to
touch Heaven.
3208. I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success, the
earliest spark in the dreaming youth, is this; dream a great
dream.
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
Johannes A.
Gaertner
John A. Appleman
3209. A ship in harbor is safe but that is not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd
3210. Opportunities are seldom labeled.
John A. Shedd
3211. When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a
hundred echoes.
John A. Shedd
3212. If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're
in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
John A. Simone, Sr.
3213. By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have
struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time
and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the
reign of the dead.
John Acton
3214. Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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3215. There are two educations. One should teach us how to make
a living and the other how to live.
John Adams
3216. A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is
thought likely to achieve an objective.
John Argenti
3217. If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
3218. If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own
opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some
seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the
seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no
greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes
along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
3219. To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
3220. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
3221. The human imagination, has great difficulty in living strictly
within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It
dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
3222. The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not
grasp.
John Atkinson
John B. Gough
John Bach
John Barrymore
John Berger
John Berry
3223. I have seen, time and again, that given an informed choice,
the poor do not want a hand out, but simply a hand up. They
want the dignity that comes from doing for self. That
education is the ultimate poverty eradication tool, and when
you know better, you tend to do better.
John Bryant
3224. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but
to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan
3225. The secret of happiness is something to do.
3226. If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
3227. No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be
creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
3228. Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it
feels good.
3229. Failures are divided into two classes — those who thought and
never did, and those who did and never thought.
3230. A failure establishes only this, that our determination to
succeed was not strong enough.
John Burroughs
John Cage
John Cassavetes
John Chancellor
John Charles Salak
John Christian
Bovee
3231. I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller
3232. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to
success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It
overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
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3233. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths,
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller
3234. If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller
3235. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for
success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
3236. Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
John D. Rockefeller
3237. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
3238. Every great advance in science has issued from a new
audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
3239. The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut
already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the
alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a
sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once
committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an
idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense
and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
John Dewey
3240. And plenty makes us poor.
John Dryden
3241. For they conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
3242. He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
3243. Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is
with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
3244. The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be
one.
John Dryden
3245. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
3246. A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
3247. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can
do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
3248. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the
highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
3249. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past
or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
3250. Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy
3251. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and
direction.
John F. Kennedy
3252. Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one
unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or
unchangeable.
John F. Kennedy
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3253. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
3254. There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are
far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable
inaction.
John F. Kennedy
3255. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are
far less than the long-range risks and the costs of comfortable
inaction.
John F. Kennedy
3256. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are
far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable
inaction.
3257. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
3258. We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our
hopes.
3259. We will go to the moon. We will go to the moon and do other
things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.
3260. When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two
characters. One represents danger, and the other represents
opportunity.
3261. When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninetythree percent working.
3262. Education is the process by which the individual relates
himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the
changing world, share's the race's mind and enfranchises his
own soul.
3263. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the
highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
3264. Who has not served cannot command.
3265. A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey
toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds, rather
than toward a willful determination to make it happen.
3266. Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to
get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I
had any reason to expect.
3267. Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
3268. A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until
he can get out of it (Maid In Waiting)
3269. For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these,
'It might have been'.
3270. Keep your eye on eternal goals.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Finley
John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
John Florio
John Fortunato
John Fuqua
John G. Hibben
John Galsworthy
John Greenleaf
Whittier
John H. Groberg
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3271. You must get involved to have an impact. No one is
impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
3272. Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create
revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many
bombs.
3273. You get what you set out to do.
3274. Someone once said, ‘God is simple, all else is complex.’ The
more attuned you become to God, the simpler and more
beautiful your life becomes.
3275. Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
3276. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
3277. What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at
once, and yet have no regard of throwing it away by parcels
and piecemeal.
3278. The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in
a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up
beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision
of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and
every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not
one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a
civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of
invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed
consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is
the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
3279. One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know
what you do not know.
3280. The secret is this: there is no secret.
3281. Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
John H. Holcomb
John H. Vincent
John Hanson
John Harricharan
John Henry Cardinal
Newman
John Heywood
John Howe
John Jay Chapman
John Kenneth
Gilbraith
John L. Parker
John Lancaster
Spalding
3282. If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my
art or music, then in that respect you can call me that...I
believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon
3283. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
John Lennon
3284. If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly
know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who
would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had
no wings to fly.
3285. The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
3286. A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man
yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
3287. What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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John Locke
John Locke
John Lubbock
John Lubbock
189
3288. When we have done our best, we should wait the result in
peace.
John Lubbock
3289. Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.
Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by
contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece
- by thought, choice, courage and determination.
John Luther
3290. Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words
and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses,
sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others,
struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh,
it is these, like the blending colors in a picture or the blending
notes of music which constitute the man.
John MacDuff
3291. Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a
stagnant pool.
3292. As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to
change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you
would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too
many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.
3293. Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of
men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone.
3294. Ideas shape the course of history.
3295. A set definite objective must be established if we are to
accomplish anything in a big way.
3296. I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough
situations.
3297. He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires,
and fears is more than a king.
3298. The mind is owned by the self and can make a hell of heaven
or heaven of hell.
3299. You have not converted a man because you have silenced
him.
3300. The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children
they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's
not for you.''
John Mason Good
John Maxwell
John Maynard
Keynes
John Maynard
Keynes
John McDonald
John McEnroe
John Milton
John Milton
John Morley
John Mortimer
3301. The sun shines not on us, but in us.
John Muir
3302. Whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it
hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
3303. You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of
what we say.
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John N. Mitchell
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3304. A certain amount of opposition can be of great help to a mankites rise against, not with the wind.
3305. People can be divided into three groups: those who make
things happen, those who watch things happen, and those
who wonder what happened.
3306. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that
you are not going to stay where you are.
3307. The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by
means of which he can get from where he is to where he
wants to go.
3308. It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not
worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
3309. Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or
else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life.
When people believe one thing and do something else, they
are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the
game. When you believe something you don't follow with your
heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself.
Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively
living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.
John Neal
John Newburn
John Pierpont
Morgan
John Pierpont
Morgan
John R. Amos
John Roger
3310. A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they
do it without effort.
John Ruskin
3311. God alone can finish.
John Ruskin
3312. In every person who comes near you look for what is good
and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will
drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
John Ruskin
3313. People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer,
builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
John Ruskin
3314. The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for
it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
3315. The highest reward for toil is not what you get for it, but what
you become by it.
John Ruskin
3316. There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of
good weather.
John Ruskin
3317. The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths
offered by the present, but a place that is created, created
first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future
is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.
The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of
making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
John Schaar
3318. The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they
become obvious.
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191
3319. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to
handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
3320. Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that
ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy
perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
3321. One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who
have only interests.
3322. Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not
incite us to have them.
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Stuart Mill
John Updike
3323. Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John W. Gardner
3324. One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become
less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
3325. The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from
the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught.
He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of
us accept.
John W. Gardner
3326. The cynic says, "One man can't do anything. " I say, "Only
one man can do anything."
John W. Gardner
3327. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the
individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will
not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd
conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings
and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner
3328. Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going
around the bases.
John W. Raper
3329. There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is
having lots to do and not doing it.
John W. Raper
3330. One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
John Wanamaker
3331. The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is
something much more basic than any technique: a change of
heart.
John Welwood
3332. Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles
to watch you burn.
John Wesley
3333. Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the
ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you
can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.
John Wesley
3334. Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to keep
you there.
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John Wooden
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3335. 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
3336. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
3337. It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
John Wooden
3338. It's what you learn after you know everything that counts.
John Wooden
3339. Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
3340. Nothing will work unless you do.
John Wooden
3341. Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.
John Wooden
3342. Success is that peace of mind that comes from knowing
you've done everything in your power to become the very
best you're capable of becoming.
John Wooden
3343. There are many things that are essential to arriving at true
peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which
cannot be acquired without prayer.
3344. Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the
way things turn out.
3345. You can't live a perfect day without doing something for
someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
John Wooden
John Wooden
3346. If we once — and for so long — lived in balance with nature
and each other, we should be able to do so again.
John Zerzan
3347. If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and
each other, we should be able to do so again.
John Zerzan
3348. The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something
that's gone, or to recreate it.
3349. If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
3350. Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard
to get out of.
3351. My success just evolved from working hard at the business at
hand each day.
3352. Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in
what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner
peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you
will have had more success than you could possibly have
imagined.
3353. You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but
that's it, there's no turning back.
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Johnette Napolitano
Johnnie L. Cochran,
Jr.
Johnny Bench
Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson
Jon English
193
3354. Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Jon Winokur
3355. I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to
do more.
Jonas Salk
3356. I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the
nightmares because of my dreams.
Jonas Salk
3357. There is no such thing as failure. There is only giving up too
soon.
Jonas Salk
3358. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
3359. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in
the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he wiser
today than he was yesterday.
Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Swift
3360. May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
3361. Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false
flitting shapes our mids delude...are mere productions of the
brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
Jonathan Swift
3362. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
3363. Vison is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
3364. I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
3365. Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than
others.
3366. Almost is never close enough.
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters
Jordan Finley
3367. The bumps in the road just make the ride more fun.
3368. Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
3369. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jorj Wager
Jose Ferrer
Jose Ortega y
Gasset
3370. Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself
more than others do.
Jose Ortega y
Gasset
3371. We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by
saying that the former is the one who makes great demands
on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Jose Ortega y
Gasset
3372. The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That
way, they remember you.
3373. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in
this world.
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Josef von Sternberg
Joseph Addison
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3374. I consider an human soul without education like marble in the
quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill
of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface
shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein
that runs through the body of it.
3375. I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal
movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks
at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of
change - within himself, not on the outside.
3376. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come
when life seems most challenging.
3377. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the
friend of flattering illusions.
3378. Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective
and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the
supreme master of art as of life.
3379. We live, as we dream - alone.
3380. If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is
recognize their own solidairty. They have nothing to do but
fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more
powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the
property of the capitalists.
3381. If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is
recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but
fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more
powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the
property of the capitalists.
3382. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
3383. Rather have a bad day cross-country skiing, then a good day
at the beach!
3384. Imagination is the eye of the soul.
3385. One who has imagination without learning has wings without
feet.
3386. To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Ettor
Joseph Ettor
Joseph F. Newton
Joseph Gollinger
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
3387. What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of
work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be.
He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and
a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is
no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success
will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has
done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along
the line of its development.
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Joseph M. Dodge
195
3388. Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
3389. Not many people are willing to give failure a second
opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of
failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are
willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to
consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back,
you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most
powerful success forces.
3390. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Joseph P.
Thompson
Joseph Sugarman
Josephus Daniels
3391. Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the
ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
3392. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those
you hold well.
Josh Billings
3393. The trouble with people is not that they don’t know, but that
they know so much that ain’t so.
Josh Billings
3394. There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their
opinions and those who won’t.
Josh Billings
3395. To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the
pencil, you're overdoing it.
Josh Jenkins
3396. Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but
from playing bad ones properly.
Joshua Dool
3397. Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them
is what makes life meaningful.
3398. Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate
pleasures for long-term values.
3399. Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely
will at times fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we
can take the worst, take the risk.
3400. Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those
dreams.
Joshua J. Marine
Joshua L. Liebman
Joyce Brothers
Joyce Brothers
3401. The person interested in success has to learn to view failure
as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the
top.
Joyce Brothers
3402. Small is good, but none is better.
Juanita Nelson
3403. We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change
cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the
comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
3404. Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They
climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for
helicopters!
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Judge Learned
Hand
Judi Adler
March 21, 2009
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3405. I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a
choice of attitude.
3406. If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
3407. We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination,
fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
3408. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is
not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we
must do.
Judith M. Knowlton
Judith Manners
Judy Garland
Jules Renard
3409. O golden Silence, bid our souls be still, and on the foolish
fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!
Julia Dorr
3410. Out of the strain of the doing, Into the peace of the done.
Julia Woodruff
3411. It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also
enjoy the merry go round.
Julie Andrews
3412. You have to set new goals every day.
Julie Krone
3413. Goals determine what you're going to be.
Julius Erving
3414. I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
Julius Irving
3415. I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to
be realised, than lord among those without dreams and
desires.
Kahil Gibran
3416. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward
what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
3417. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin
brother.
Kahlil Gibran
3418. I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to
be realized, than lord among those without dreams and
desires.
Kahlil Gibran
3419. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at
what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran
3420. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience
them.
3421. Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from
his occupations?
3422. Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is but today's
dream.
3423. Everything unpleasant is developmental.
3424. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our
surroundings.
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Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
Kaikki Vittumainen
Kehittää
Kakuzo Okakiwa
197
3425. Yesterday is a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision; but
today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
and tomorrow a vision of hope.
3426. You can procrastinate later.
Kalidasa
Kanzure
3427. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
3428. Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
3429. There's no time to stop for gas, we're already late.
Karen Horney
Karen Kaiser Clark
Karin Donker
3430. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various
ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx
3431. The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various
ways: the point is to change it.
Karl Marx
3432. It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until
the time of action is past.
Karl Von Clausewitz
3433. Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Karl von Clausewitz
3434. To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could
anything be more fun?
3435. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the
criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
3436. Risk anything! Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for
yourself.
3437. God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm
ones.
3438. None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what
unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a
few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
3439. Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most
men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.
3440. It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that
needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked
hard enough and was good enough.
3441. Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited
satisfaction.
3442. You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You
can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You
can't reach your goals if you don't try.
3443. Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory
note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
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Katherine Graham
Katherine Hepburn
Katherine Mansfield
Katheryn Hulme
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner
Kathy Ireland
Kathy Seligman
Kay Lyons
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3444. Progress stops upon satisfaction.
3445. We can never succeed until we believe we'll succeed.
3446. People try just as hard doing something right as they do
something wrong.
Kehitys Loppuu
Tyytyväisyyteen
Keith DeGreen
Kelly L. Johnson
3447. The 5 S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength,
skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Ken Doherty
3448. The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Ken Hudgins
3449. No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige,
or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life; you
win some and you lose some.
3450. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We
learn only from failure.
3451. What exists, is possible.
Ken Keyes
Kenneth Boulding
Kenneth Boulding
3452. Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and for without a
set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their
capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They
are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or
vicious; they simply are empty. Shake them and they would
rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction.
Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass
of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady
purpose and undertake the long pull toward its
accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of
purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our
abilities; and concentration adds power.
Kenneth Hildebrand
3453. Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
3454. To succeed at the level I want to, you have to be focused and
serious.
Kent Steffes
3455. How many software engineers does it take to change a
lightbulb? Just one. But the house falls down.
Kerry Zallar
3456. With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to
be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is
the foundation of integrity.
3457. It is that little bit of insanity that keeps us all sane.
3458. You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop
you from trying.
3459. I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win.
3460. The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the
sooner you will be able to correct them.
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Keshavan Nair
Kevin Cunningham
Kevin Johnson
Kim Zmeskal
Kimon Nicolaides
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3461. Change has a considerable psychological impact on the
human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means
that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging
because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring
because the challenge exists to make things better.
3462. In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to
fail.
3463. People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes
goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we
make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we
were with in seventh grade?
3464. Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me
I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around
it, crawl under it.
3465. Stability is not immobility.
3466. One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a
hundred teaching it.
3467. Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a
failure.
3468. No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have
to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it,
you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.
3469. We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the
same horizon.
3470. The worst crime is faking it.
Kirk Douglas
Kirstie Alley
Kitty Kelley
Klemmens Von
Metternich
Knute Rockne
Knute Rockne
Konosuke
Matsushita
Konrad Adenauer
Kurt Cobain
3471. If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
3472. I feel that the most important step in any major
accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to
keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many
obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.
3473. Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit
how little they know.
King Jr. Whitney
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Kurt Lewin
Kurt Thomas
L. Carte
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3474. Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to
its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to
discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover
electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the
telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these
things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So
I believe that dreams, daydreams, you know, with your eyes
wide open and your brain machinery whizzing are likely to
lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will
become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent,
and therefore to foster, civilization.
3475. Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become
reality.
3476. The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
3477. The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used
to snub you.
3478. Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
3479. Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works
and brings it out.
3480. The main dangers in this life are the people who want to
change everything -- or nothing.
3481. The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to
leave undone.
L. Frank Baum
L. J. Suenens
L. Thomas Holdcroft
Lady Astor
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Blessington
Lady Nancy Astor
Lady Stella Reading
3482. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or
great days.
Lance Armstrong
3483. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged
bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
3484. I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost
anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes
3485. You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well
then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside
yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build
it small, and it will grow.
3486. He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is
wise.
Lanza del Vasto
Lao Tse
3487. If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will
try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is
nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu
3488. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao-Tsu
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3489. To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders,
the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the
people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the
next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done
the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tsu
3490. A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. Less
good when they obey and acclaim him. Worse when they fear
and despise him. Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor
you. But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim
fulfilled, they will say, "We did this ourselves."
Lao-Tzu
3491. All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and
great things in that which is small.
Lao-Tzu
3492. As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield
with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to
come back again.
Lao-Tzu
3493. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking
creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu
3494. Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness,
have few desires.
Lao-Tzu
3495. Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water.
Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can
withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the
flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the
forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Lao-Tzu
3496. People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are
about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he
was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
3497. Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose
them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was
almost ripe.
3498. A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents,
works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these
skills to accomplish his goals.
3499. Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to
lose everything.
Lao-Tzu
Lao-tzu
Larry Bird
Larry Csonka
3500. The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
Larry Eisenberg
3501. Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but
laziness always pays off now.
Larry Kersten
3502. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
3503. I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of
life which are the real ones after all.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
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3504. When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white;
when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of
gray.
3505. I know I am not seeing things as they are, I'm seeing things
as I am.
3506. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
3507. Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought
that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental
conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a
train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as
well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which
that train of thought is going.
3508. If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end
up somewhere else.
3509. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases
ever with the acquisition of it.
3510. Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll
show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
3511. No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to
another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness
throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and
make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to
others is that it makes them kind themselves.
3512. There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never
did, and those who did and never thought.
3513. We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change
cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the
comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Laura Schlessinger
Laurel Lee
Lauren Bacall
Laurence J. Peter
Laurence Johnston
Peter
Laurence Sterne
Lawrence Bell
Lawrence G.
Lovasik
Lawrence J. Peter
Learned Hand
3514. Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire
burning inside all of us.
Lech Walesa
3515. The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the
way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Lech Walesa
3516. We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world
admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks
us to keep our balance.
3517. Here I stand on a hill in my mountain of dreams, telling
myself, its not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.
3518. The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are
the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the people who
try to do more than they're expected to do - they always
reach.
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Lech Walesa
Led Zeppelin
Lee Iacocca
203
3519. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers,
but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
3520. Much that I sought, I could not find; much that I found, I
could not bind; much that I bound, I could not free; much
that I freed, returned to me.
3521. When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but
you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Lee J. Iacocca
Lee Wilson Dodd
Leo Burnett
3522. Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
3523. Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia
3524. Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Leo Buscaglia
3525. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than
our willingness to choose life.
3526. Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your
gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia
3527. A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to
be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with
me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to
love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom
and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo F. Buscaglia
3528. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your
expectations. Don’t over-analyse your relationships. Stop
playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured
by genuineness.
Leo F. Buscaglia
3529. I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that
gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
3530. The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he
questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different
from his own.
3531. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of
changing himself.
Leo Rosten
Leo Stein
Leo Tolstoy
3532. I know that most men, including those at ease with problems
of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the
simplest and most obvious truth, if it be such as would oblige
them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have
delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly
taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by
thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Leo Tolstoy
3533. I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me,
and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him
and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by
getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy
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3534. Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service,
and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their
own personal happiness.
3535. The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to
live otherwise than according to the demands of our
conscience...not from our mental resolution to try a new form
of life.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3536. The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
3537. True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
3538. A man can do all things if he but wills them.
3539. You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Blum
3540. Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Leonardo da Vinci
must do.
Leonardo da Vinci
3542. Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation
... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
3544. It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci
3545. It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci
3546. Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the
intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci
3547. Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some
works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others
quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the
doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci
3548. Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
Leonardo da Vinci
3549. The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving
yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price
3550. Many hands make the Light work.
Leroy W. Jones
3551. Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
Les Brown
3552. If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and
bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level
of consciousness.
Les Brown
3553. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown
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3554. Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals
and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Les Brown
3555. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
Les Brown
3556. One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is
to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not
exist. you can always do better and you can always grow.
3557. Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your
reality.
Les Brown
Les Brown
3558. Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on
achieving them.
Les Brown
3559. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the
stars.
Les Brown
3560. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are
the buts you use today.
Les Brown
dream.
Les Brown
3562. You must take action now that will move you towards your
goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Les Brown
3563. Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you
what is possible for your life.
Les Brown
3564. “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from
here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get
to,” said the Cat. I don’t much care where,” said Alice. Then it
doesn’t matter which way you walk.
Lewis Carroll
3565. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you
there.
Lewis Carroll
3566. One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire
cat in a tree. Which road do I take? She asked. Where do you
want to go? Was his response. I don't know, Alice answered.
Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
3567. One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth
doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
3568. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive
good fortune.
Lewis Wallace
3569. Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to
unlocking our potential.
Liane Cardes
3570. When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of
kindness that's where they stay.
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3571. If you have come to help me, please go away. But if you have
come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us
work together.
3572. Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.
3573. If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If
you have come to because your liberation is bound up in
mine, we can work together.
3574. If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of
them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as
individuals.
3575. Always have some project underway, an ongoing project that
goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small
unit of time.
3576. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to
think about besides homework.
3577. No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
3578. The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win,
you're still a rat.
3579. The success of your presentation will be judged not by the
knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
3580. I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living
one needs.
3581. It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness,
and not men.
3582. The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people
don't always dream your dream.
3583. The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
3584. That's the risk you take if you change. That people you've
been involved with won't like the new you. But other people
who do will come along.
3585. In difficult situations when hope seems feeble, the boldest
plans are safest.
Lila Watson
Lilian Eichler
Watson
Lilla Watson
Lillian Carter
Lillian Troll
Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin
Lily Walters
Lin Yutang
Lincoln Steffens
Linda Ronstadt
Linus Pauling
Lisa Alther
Livy
3586. Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it
ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the
wisdom we've learned and create something.
Liz Carpenter
3587. Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you
intend to do.
Liz Smith
3588. We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and
not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
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3589. The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely
better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
3590. There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you
want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind
achieve the second.
3591. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely.
3592. Attain the unattainable.
Lloyd Jones
Logan Pearsall
Smith
Lord Acton
Lord Alfred
Tennyson
3593. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone
lead to success.
Lord Alfred
Tennyson
3594. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but
to do and die.
Lord Alfred
Tennyson
3595. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is
unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will
come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and
despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield
3596. Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired out in the
world, not in a closet.
3597. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are
with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket:
and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show
that you have one.
3598. You must look into people, as well as at them.
3599. A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
3600. The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or
another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within
ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.
3601. If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a
kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a
lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
3602. If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a
kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a
lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
3603. Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing
but dreams but He did give us children to make them dreams
seem worthwhile.
3604. Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a
guy you can beat every time.
3605. You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a
strategy is useless.
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Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
Lord Darling
Loren Eiseley
Loretta Girzaitis
Loretta Girzatlis
Lorraine Hansberry
Lou Brock
Lou Gerstner
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3606. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines
what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
3607. I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz
3608. If you're bored with life and you don't get up every morning
with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough
goals.
3609. Good is not good enough when better is expected.
3610. The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point
where action takes place.
3611. Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you
imagine.
3612. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared
impossible before they were done.
3613. We can have democracy in this country or we can have great
wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have
both.
Lou Holtz
Lou Lamoriello
Louis A. Allen
Louis Aragon
Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis
3614. Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal
and who obeys it. an ideal of art, of science, or gospel virtues.
Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.
Louis Pasteur
3615. Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
3616. In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared
minds.
Louis Pasteur
3617. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My
strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
3618. Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I
may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
3619. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong
convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott
3620. I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my
ship.
3621. Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some
honors!
3622. We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to
be weaving. And we all have the power to make wishes come
true, as long as we keep believing.
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Louisa May Alcott
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3623. From the first day in school until the day I graduated,
everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do
you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred
plus.
Louise Nevelson
3624. Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas
3625. In creating, the only hard thing is to begin.
Lowell Thomas
3626. It's not failure, but low aim is crime.
Lowell Thomas
3627. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The
more things you do, the more you can do.
3628. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You
really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
3629. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and
lie about your age.
3630. He who is brave is free.
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
3631. If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the
right wind.
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
3632. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
3633. Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man
does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the
right wind.
3634. Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
3635. That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who
has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury
that turns everything topsy-turvy.
3636. The wise will always reflect on the quality, not the quantity of
life.
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
3637. What you think of yourself is much more important than what
others think of you.
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
3638. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no
wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annæus
Seneca
3639. Every great change must expect opposition because it shakes
the very foundation of privilege.
Lucretia Mott
3640. Every great change must expect opposition because it shakes
the very foundation of privilege.
3641. The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
3642. Less is more.
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Lucretius
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3643. The aspects of things that are most important to us are
hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
3644. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise
missile.
3645. Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is
right.
3646. The noblest search is the search for excellence.
3647. Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives
just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.
3648. It is more important to know where you are going than to get
there quickly.
3649. You are the same today that you'll be five years from now
except for two things: the people you meet and the books you
read.
3650. The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you
commit yourself to it.
3651. Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change
a thing.
3652. We write our own destiny. We become what we do.
3653. To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait
and wait patiently when it is time for repose, will put man in
accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that
with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as
his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lynda Barry
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
M. Russell Ballard
Mabel Newcomber
Mac McMillan
Mack R. Douglas
Macy Gray
Madame Chiang
Kai-shek
Madame Helena
Petrova Blavatsky
3654. Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.
Mae West
3655. Too much of a good thing is just right.
Mae West
3656. The great secret that all old people share is that you really
haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body
changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course,
causes great confusion.
Maggie Kuhn
3657. There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a
goal!
Maggie Kuhn
3658. This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to
thee would cause thee pain.
Mahabharata
3659. I have tried every way I could to have him change into a
different kind of person. I'm going to get rid of him, that's all
it is.
Mahalia Jackson
3660. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative
of the brave.
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3661. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he
becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
3662. A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what
he can do. Nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi
3663. A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what
he can do, Nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi
3664. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a
sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and
became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi
3665. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its
people.
Mahatma Gandhi
3666. A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater
than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to
avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
3667. A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a
'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
3668. A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while
it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi
3669. A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect
beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every
moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
3670. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does
not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
3671. A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable
faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
3672. A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit
of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and
composed and with God as witness.
3673. A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man
is unjust by accident.
3674. Action expresses priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3675. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive
tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi
3676. All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be
no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere
fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi
3677. All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of
mankind.
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3678. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other
respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but
Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
3679. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and
deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything
will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
3680. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history
will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the
blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
3681. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody
sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi
3682. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
3683. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma Gandhi
3684. An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its
breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
3685. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct
understanding.
3686. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster
that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3687. Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man
can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for
which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi
3688. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being
able to remake the world - as in being able to remake
ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
3689. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being
able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age
- as in being able to remake ourselves.
3690. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
3691. Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by
his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
3692. But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
3693. Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3694. Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma Gandhi
3695. Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the
dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel
stronger for confession.
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3696. Constant development is the law of life, and a man who
always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear
consistent drives himself into a false position.
3697. Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
3698. Don’t listen to friends when the Friend inside you says “Do
this!”
3699. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be
real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
3700. Each one prays to God according to his own light.
3701. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not
every man’s greed.
3702. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
3703. Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to
submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
3704. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages
of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a
victory.
3705. Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within
everyone.
3706. Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
3707. Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes
blind it dies.
3708. Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
3709. Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For
want of valour is want of religious faith.
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3710. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight
you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
3711. For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi
3712. Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living ?
Mahatma Gandhi
3713. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to
err.
Mahatma Gandhi
3714. Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive
possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
3715. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in
reaching it.
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3716. God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands,
even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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3717. God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he
wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi
3718. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May
He be so to every one of us.
3719. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what
you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3720. Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
3721. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
3722. I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
Mahatma Gandhi
3723. I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am
prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
3724. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and
photographers.
3725. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the
world.
3726. I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt
the way of life of the future - without having to wait for others
to do so.
3727. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die
unarmed.
3728. I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition
to wrong.
3729. I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into
watertight compartments called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3730. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other
fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to
confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
3731. I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not
enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be
sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it
up.
Mahatma Gandhi
3732. I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the
greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is
the greatest good of all.
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3733. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with
taking care of the present. God has given me no control over
the moment following.
3734. I don’t know which is the greater task: to decentralize a topheavy civilization or to prevent an ancient civilization from
becoming centralized and top-heavy. In both cases the core
of the problem is to discover what constitutes a good
civilization, then proclaim it to the people and help them to
erect it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3735. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects
of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent
attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
3736. I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently
the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to
myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
Mahatma Gandhi
3737. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Nonviolence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try
experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
3738. I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the
spirit of service and sacrifice.
3739. I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a
difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal
effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
3740. I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians
are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3741. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless
myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
3742. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the
good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
3743. I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason
and is in conflict with morality.
Mahatma Gandhi
3744. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it
means getting along with people.
3745. I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we
should become less than beasts by making the noblest of
God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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3746. I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt or when
the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test:
Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom
you may have seen and ask yourself, if the step you
contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain
anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own
life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to Swaraj for the
hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find
your doubts and your self melting away.
Mahatma Gandhi
3747. I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided
it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi
3748. If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also
under certain conditions is equally a duty.
3749. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed
suicide.
3750. If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of
time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest
storm.
3751. If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to
begin with children.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3752. If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to
carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with
the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
3753. If you never exercise your leg muscles, you will eventually be
unable to walk. Wonder what happens when you never
exercise your brain?
Mahatma Gandhi
3754. Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma Gandhi
3755. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
3756. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no
place.
Mahatma Gandhi
3757. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than
words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
3758. In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible
for anyone to believe that anyone else could possibly reject
the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi
3759. Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma Gandhi
3760. Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own
reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
3761. Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man
as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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3762. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma Gandhi
3763. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the
growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
3764. Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should
be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it
up.
3765. It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel
themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
3766. It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and
bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be
able to save one's head.
3767. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
3768. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to
befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the
quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
3769. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and
silver.
3770. It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in
proportion as you subdue the flesh.
3771. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the
quantity.
3772. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy
to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the
wisest might err.
3773. Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than
his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
3774. Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is
a punishment.
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3775. Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he
adds something new to his life, something with which nothing
can be compared.
Mahatma Gandhi
3776. Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but
let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
3777. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever.
3778. Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works
for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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3779. Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless
service with which nature has endowed her.
3780. Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high
thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3781. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the
hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi
3782. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi
3783. Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been
know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair
of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
3784. Measures must always in a progressive society be held
superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments,
working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma Gandhi
3785. Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to
it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi
3786. Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
3787. Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all
morality.
Mahatma Gandhi
3788. Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or
woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in
the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
3789. My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from
God as my successes and my talents, and I lay them both at
His feet.
3790. My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3791. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my
God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
3792. Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is
important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
3793. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi
3794. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
3795. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation
with good.
3796. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one
another.
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3797. Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its
seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our
being.
3798. Non-violence is the article of faith.
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3799. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last
article of my creed.
Mahatma Gandhi
3800. Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
3801. Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also
faith in man.
Mahatma Gandhi
3802. Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come
by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi
3803. One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and
one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi
3804. Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in
God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
3805. Patience means self-suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
3806. Peace is its own reward.
Mahatma Gandhi
3807. Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
3808. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of
punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on
love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then
the one derived from fear of punishment.
3809. Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and
weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3810. Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly
understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of
action.
Mahatma Gandhi
3811. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily
admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a
heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
3812. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi
3813. Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot
command results, we can only strive.
Mahatma Gandhi
3814. Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for
building up a sound education.
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3815. Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience
can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
3816. Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is
the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of
philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3817. Reporter: “Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western
civilization? Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea!”
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3818. Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not
worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
3819. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort
is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
3820. Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mahatma Gandhi
3821. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the
servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and
possessions pale into nothingness before service which is
rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
3822. Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical.
Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without
soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
3823. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from
an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
3824. That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi
3825. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service
of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
3826. The difference between what we do and what we are capable
of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mahatma Gandhi
3827. The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are
different.
3828. The good man is the friend of all living things.
3829. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its
animals are treated.
3830. The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered
by the still small voice of conscience.
3831. The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be
effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most
spotless.
3832. The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act
rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought
to the body.
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3833. The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
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3834. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi
3835. The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's
opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi
3836. The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi
3837. The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be
adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
3838. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of
the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
3839. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot
appear to them except in the form of bread.
3840. There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the
court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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3841. There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for
man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
3842. There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable
law governing everything and every being that exists or lives.
It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of
living beings.
Mahatma Gandhi
3843. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
3844. There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma Gandhi
3845. There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one
who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about
anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi
3846. There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be
afraid.
3847. Those who know how to think need no teachers.
3848. Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not
know what religion is.
3849. Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one
and the same to us all.
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3850. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi
3851. To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the
ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is
starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
3852. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better
than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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3853. Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the
cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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3854. Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
3855. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is selfsustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
3856. Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for
turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma Gandhi
3857. Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a
menace to the world and to India herself.
3858. Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man.
They die up to a point.
3859. We are constantly being astonished at the amazing
discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far
more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will
be made in the field of nonviolence.
3860. We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our
writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives
be open books for all to study.
3861. We may have our private opinions but why should they be a
bar to the meeting of hearts?
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3862. We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in
thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as
our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mahatma Gandhi
3863. We must become the change we want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
3864. We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so
constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or
abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and
stop.
Mahatma Gandhi
3865. We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other
party.
3866. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and
the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under
the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or
democracy?
3867. What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a
very good idea.
3868. What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the
whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and
hope.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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3869. What you do may seem insignificant, but it is very important
that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
3870. Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most
important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
3871. When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the
moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
3872. When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter
becomes irresistible.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3873. Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
3874. Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
3875. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy
this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
3876. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get
people to stop reading them.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
3877. You may never know what results come of your action, but if
you do nothing there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi
3878. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
3879. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if
a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not
become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
3880. There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot
appear to them except in the form of bread.
3881. That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it, you can't
understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary.
3882. It takes only one other person to say it's so; one other point
of reality to make something real.
Mahatma Ghandi
Major Kira Nerys
Mal Pancoast
3883. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open
one.
Malcolm Forbes
3884. Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
3885. If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Malcolm Forbes
3886. Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
3887. Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other
way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes
3888. Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
3889. When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes
3890. When you cease to dream, you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes
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3891. The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly,
nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of
how raindrops fall... The sight of hundreds of blades of grass
bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me
as one of the merriest sights in the world.
3892. Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with
confidence charter a course for our future.
Malcolm Margolin
Malcolm X
3893. If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.
Malcolm X
3894. The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
3895. Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
Malcolm X
3896. The only limits on us are the ones we set on ourselves.
3897. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their
watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it
and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
3898. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Manuel Carrasquillo
Marcel Achard
Marcel Proust
3899. Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of
thoughtful wishes.
Marcel Proust
3900. The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the
eyes of another, one hundred others - in seeing the hundred
universes that each of them sees.
Marcel Proust
3901. The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but
in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
3902. There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period
of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness
of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would
gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust
3903. To succeed in business, be daring, be original, be first.
Marchant
3904. Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder
3905. You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing
down and feeling your heart's desires.
Marcia Wieder
3906. I was walking one morning, when it started to rain. I recall
feeling a raindrop, and I considered whether I had been the
first to feel the initial one or had the privilege been given to
someone else. Every storm must begin with a single drop of
rain. And so it is with every worthwhile movement...it begins
with an idea that is too simple to be taken seriously...and
then comes the storm.
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3907. All that is needed to make a happy life is within yourself, in
your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
3908. Don’t be run so much by what you lack but by what you
already achieved.
Marcus Aurelius
3909. If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting
nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present
activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every
word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And
there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
3910. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due
to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you
have the power to revoke at any moment.
3911. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in
the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before
you have started.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Garvey
3912. The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack
butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyei ruunt leones; Non sunt
papilionibus molesti.]
Marcus Valerius
Martial
3913. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you
kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase
Smith
3914. Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable
ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho
3915. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller
3916. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller
3917. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of
the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow
human beings.
3918. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
3919. 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
3920. The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders
in the direction of the unknown, The children, the young,
must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but
enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be
permitted to work with them on the answers.
Margaret Mead
3921. If you want something said, ask a man; if you want
something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
3922. In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want
anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
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3923. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
3924. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone
can start today and make a new ending.
3925. Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man
inhuman.
3926. If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or
effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the
problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric
that threatens all Americans.
3927. If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have
an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
3928. You really can change the world if you care enough.
3929. Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score.
Margaret Thatcher
Maria Robinson
Marian Anderson
Marian Wright
Edelman
Marian Wright
Edelman
Marian Wright
Edelman
Mariane Espinosa
Murphy
3930. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest
fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,
not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your
playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing
enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel
insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children
do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And
as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from
our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne
Williamson
3931. Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the
effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your
thinking.
Mariannne
Williamson
3932. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in
eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in
our hand-and melting like a snowflake...
Marie Beyon Ray
3933. I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to
be done.
Marie Curie
3934. Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have
perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.
Marie Curie
3935. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
3936. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and
laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
3937. There is only one proof of ability, - action
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3938. No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a
gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We
cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or
emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson
3939. It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to
agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats
Kennedy
3940. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars
for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe
3941. If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe
3942. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is
what makes it permanent.
3943. If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
Marilyn vos Savant
Mario Andretti
3944. If you want something done right, get someone else to do it.
Marion Giacomini
3945. Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different.
Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy
in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start
to pursue other ways to get it.
Mark Caine
3946. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be
a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
3947. There are those who travel and those who are going
somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same.
The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is
going.
Mark Caine
3948. When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're
happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.
Mark Fidrych
3949. If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, ‘You can’t turn
back the clock.’ You try to heal the person, no matter how
painful the process.
Mark Shepard
3950. Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.
Mark Shepard
3951. The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the
preservers of harmony.
Mark Shepard
3952. The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but
fragmentation and alienation.
3953. We are all riding on the same bus.
Mark Shepard
3954. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is
putting on its shoes.
3955. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Shepard
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3956. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges
himself a liar.
Mark Twain
3957. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can
learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
3958. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which
he habitually uses in conversation.
3959. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who
can't read.
3960. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
3961. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right
away. He must have time to modify his shape.
3962. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
3963. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a
newspaper.
3964. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
3965. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it
doesn't matter.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
3966. All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain
3967. All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Mark Twain
3968. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then
success is sure.
3969. All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is
sure.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
3970. Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish
the rest.
Mark Twain
3971. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which
it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
3972. Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain
3973. Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain
3974. As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation
myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when
asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain
3975. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a
misprint.
Mark Twain
3976. Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
3977. Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain
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3978. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The
biography of the man himself cannot be written.
3979. But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had
the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed
it most?
3980. Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
3981. By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I
mean.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
3982. Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite
every effort to teach them good manners.
Mark Twain
3983. Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary
necessities.
Mark Twain
3984. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear; not absence of
fear.
Mark Twain
3985. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain
3986. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish
the rest.
Mark Twain
3987. Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
3988. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world
owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
3989. Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Mark Twain
3990. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may
still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
3991. Drag your thoughts away from your troubles...by the ears, by
the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
3992. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
3993. Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into
gold.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
3994. Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor
itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
3995. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
3996. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
3997. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a
good example.
3998. History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.
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3999. I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life.
The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what
they want.
4000. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
4001. I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to
be one.
4002. If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn
any other way.
4003. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
4004. In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice.
Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
4005. It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's
what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
4006. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think
you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
4007. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in
the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
4008. It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good
impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
4009. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight
in the dog.
Mark Twain
4010. I've never let my school interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
4011. Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great, make you feel
that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
4012. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the
blind can see.
4013. Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the
greater one.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
4014. Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the
undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
4015. Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
4016. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after
tomorrow.
Mark Twain
4017. Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain
4018. Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member
of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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4019. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody
else up.
Mark Twain
4020. The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Mark Twain
4021. There are basically two types of people. People who
accomplish things, and people who claim to have
accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
4022. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
4023. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
4024. We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
4025. When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
4026. You cannot depend on your judgment when your imagination
is out of focus.
Mark Twain
4027. Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear, positive,
self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that
which you are fearful of.
Mark Victor Hansen
4028. Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody
else's results.
Mark Victor Hansen
4029. Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your
life.
Mark Victor Hansen
4030. Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging
behavior.
Mark Victor Hansen
4031. You control your future, your destiny. What you think about
comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper,
you set in motion the process of becoming the person you
most want to be. Put your future in good hands, your own.
Mark Victor Hansen
4032. You control your future, your destiny. What you think about
comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper,
you set in motion the process of becoming the person you
most want to be.
Mark Victor Hansen
4033. You'll fail at a 100% of the goals you don't set.
Mark Victor Hansen
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4034. How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those
delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single
creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it
with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to
every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the
horror a hundredfold.
Marquis De Sade
4035. Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing
about you.
Marsha Norman
4036. In whatever position you find yourself determine first your
objective.
Marshal Ferdinand
Foch
4037. Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
4038. There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is
translated through you into action, and because there is only
one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you
block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will
be lost.
4039. We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
4040. All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will
certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and
desired.
4041. Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How
could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him
unless he knew where his believers are?
Marshall Field
Martha Graham
Martha Grimes
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4042. Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and
rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
4043. Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall
have a little golden tail.
Martin Luther
4044. Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the
agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and
delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
4045. Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther
4046. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I
would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
4047. Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own
believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther
4048. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
4049. Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the
grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand
deaths for its sake.
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4050. Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and
certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther
4051. Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do
not see.
Martin Luther
4052. Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and
understanding.
Martin Luther
4053. First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall.
Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each
branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther
4054. For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every
green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold
and silver.
Martin Luther
4055. For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build
a chapel.
Martin Luther
4056. Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther
4057. God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on
trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin Luther
4058. God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and
flowers, and clouds, and stars.
Martin Luther
4059. Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that
I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther
4060. I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell,
unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures
and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin Luther
4061. I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his
cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin Luther
4062. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against
conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no
other, so help me God. Amen.
Martin Luther
4063. I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the
Antichrist.
Martin Luther
4064. I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them
all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still
possess.
Martin Luther
4065. I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Martin Luther
4066. I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not
wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not
bound by the opinions of men.
Martin Luther
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4067. If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays
himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel
to the people at the risk of life itself.
4068. If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go
there.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4069. If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go
there.
Martin Luther
4070. If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything
to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther
4071. Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end;
but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther
4072. Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let
him make her sorry to see him leave.
4073. Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
4074. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been
solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4075. Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the
greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther
4076. Nothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin Luther
4077. Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books
alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther
4078. Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther
4079. Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not
made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Martin Luther
4080. People must have righteous principals in the first, and then
they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther
4081. Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther
4082. Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a
goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther
4083. Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Martin Luther
4084. Reason is the enemy of faith.
Martin Luther
4085. The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther
4086. The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
4087. The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin Luther
4088. The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom
he gives nothing else.
Martin Luther
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4089. The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any
good.
Martin Luther
4090. The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery.
Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised
him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning
them out of clay.
Martin Luther
4091. The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and
goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as
Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider...the riders contend for
its possession.
Martin Luther
4092. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship,
communion or company than a good marriage.
4093. To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father
is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4094. War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it
destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any
scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
4095. War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it
destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any
scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
4096. Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really
your God.
Martin Luther
4097. When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin Luther
4098. When schools flourish, all flourishes.
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4099. You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for
what you do not say.
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4100. You should not believe your conscience and your feelings
more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners
preaches to you.
4101. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder
of consensus.
4102. A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
4103. A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
4104. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded
men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
4105. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money
on military defense than on programs of social uplift is
approaching spiritual doom.
4106. A right delayed is a right denied.
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4107. A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
4108. A riot is the language of the unheard.
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4109. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and
should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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4110. All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem
brings us face to face with another problem.
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4111. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the
world better.
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4112. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the
narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader
concerns of all humanity.
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4113. An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is
unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its
injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the
law.
4114. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
4115. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but
comes through continuous struggle. And so we must
straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't
ride you unless your back is bent.
4116. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
4117. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every
waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of
their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating
them.
4118. Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
4119. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of
creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
4120. Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You
only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And
you can be that servant.
4121. Everyone has the power of greatness; not for fame, but
greatness. Because greatness is determined by service.
4122. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
4123. Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do
not see.
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4124. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the
whole staircase.
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4125. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must
be demanded by the oppressed.
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4126. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction
of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark
abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
4127. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he
who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without
protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King,
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4128. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this
period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the
bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King,
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4129. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...Every
step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering,
and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of
dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King,
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4130. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively
maladjusted.
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4131. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the
world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical
revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a
thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When
machines and computers, profit motives and property rights
are considered more important than people, the giant triplets
of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being
conquered.
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
4132. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm
interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is
good.
Martin Luther King,
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4133. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have
the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily
defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
4134. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in
a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin, but by the content of their character.
4135. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places
will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
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4136. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the
sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will
be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
4137. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the
sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will
be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
4138. I have a dream.
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4139. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden
to bear.
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4140. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the
mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised
land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know
tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
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Jr.
4141. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to
the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the
Promised Land.
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4142. I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of
their skin, but by the content of their character.
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4143. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the
bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become
a reality...I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
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Jr.
4144. I submit that an individual who breaks the law that
conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty
by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community
over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest
respect for law.
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4145. I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something
that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
4146. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
4147. If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he
isn't fit to live.
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4148. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to
say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
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Jr.
4149. If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But...the
good Samaritan reversed the question: If I do not stop to
help this man, what will happen to him?
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4150. If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white
brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit,
then nothing can be more redemptive.
4151. If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover
those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral
foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
4152. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
4153. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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4154. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have
committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are
born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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4155. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary
to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King,
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4156. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but
it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty
important.
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4157. Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and
when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously
structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
4158. Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice,
and...when they fail to do this purpose they become
dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social
progress.
4159. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you
doing for others?'
4160. Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
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4161. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into
friend.
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4162. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into
friend.
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4163. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which
rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of
such a method is love.
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rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
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rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of
such a method is love.
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4166. Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
4167. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
4168. Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
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4169. No social advance rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It
comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of
dedicated individuals.
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4170. Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts
without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a
sword that heals.
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4171. Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical
violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only
refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
4172. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere
ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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4173. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere
ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Jr.
4174. One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many
people fail to remain awake through great periods of social
change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its
fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping
through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our
ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain
vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
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Jr.
4175. One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many
people fail to remain awake through great periods of social
change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its
fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping
through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our
ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain
vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
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4176. One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the
Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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4177. One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is
unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its
injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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4178. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter.
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4179. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have
guided missiles and misguided men.
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4180. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means
by which we arrive at that goal.
4181. Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the
philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic
injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
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4182. Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is
the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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4183. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much
we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal
being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King,
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4184. Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid
thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers
and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more
than having to think.
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4185. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man
knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is
control.
4186. Seeing is not always believing.
4187. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more
frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill
will.
4188. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step.
4189. That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
4190. The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has
just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you
a greater one.
4191. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But...
the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop
to help this man, what will happen to him?”
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4192. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively
and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the
goal of true education.
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4193. The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined
nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and
brotherhood.
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4194. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain
neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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4195. The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they
cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not
revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It
involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a
sense of futility.
4196. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for
which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual
power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
4197. The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
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4198. The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears.
The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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4199. The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are
poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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4200. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is
important.
4201. The question is not whether we will be extremist but what
kind of extremist will we be.
4202. The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what
kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in
dire need of creative extremists.
4203. The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom
and equality.
4204. The time is always right to do what is right.
4205. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at
times of challenge and controversy.
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4206. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the
bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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4207. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep
love.
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4208. There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged
down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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4209. To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to
be alive without breathing.
4210. War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
4211. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
4212. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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4213. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
4214. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the
same boat now.
4215. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never
lose infinite hope.
4216. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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4217. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of
war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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4218. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He
who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power
to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil
in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to
hate our enemies.
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4219. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together
as fools.
4220. We must use time creatively.
4221. We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the
creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden
tension that is already alive.
4222. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the
hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the
appalling silence of the good people.
4223. We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.
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4224. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can
never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to
be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
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4225. Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his
job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do
it no better.
Martin Luther King,
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4226. When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are
wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
4227. I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's
what you do with it that counts.
Martin Ritt
4228. Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to
do - do it and let it speak for itself.
4229. The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and
nothing else.
4230. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
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4231. Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
4232. One might speak to great length of the three corners of
reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and
what was thought ought to be seen.
4233. You can never get enough of the things you don't need,
because the things you don't need can never satisfy.
4234. Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists
concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive,
learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking
the other way as their communities fell apart.
4235. Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the
ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in
our lives.
4236. Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will;
Resolute, ne'er dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can
laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.
4237. Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
4238. If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it,
change the way you think about it.
4239. I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But
I've left the Past in God's keeping, the Future His mercy shall
clear; And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I
draw near.
4240. Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple
of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train
yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
4241. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further
than a great idea that inspires no one.
4242. For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You
just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a
detour.
4243. Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
4244. Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which
confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Marva Collins
Marvel Bell
Marvin J. Ashton
Marvin Olasky
Mary Ann Brussat
Mary Caroline
Davies
Mary Catherine
Bateson
Mary Engelbreit
Mary Gardiner
Brainard
Mary Hemingway
Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash
4245. Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They
never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
4246. People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
4247. Trust in God and do something.
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4248. Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are,
with what you have, and that will always lead you into
something greater.
4249. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the
water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
4250. The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action.
Spirituality is something done, not merely something
believed, or known or experienced.
4251. It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.
The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
4252. It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.
The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
4253. Coercive power is the curse of the universe; coactive power,
the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
Mary Manin
Morrissey
Mary Martin
Mary McDermott
Shideler
Mary O'Connor
Mary O'Connor
Mary Parker Follett
4254. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford
4255. Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had
wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
4256. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a
steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its
intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley
4257. In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence
can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are
not.
Marya Mannes
4258. I think there are two keys to being creatively productive. One
is not being daunted by one's fear of failure. The second is
sheer perseverance.
Mary-Claire King
4259. Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying
about winning and losing.
4260. Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice
what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
4261. They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently
the sweetest relish of their creature comforts
4262. The end must justify the means.
Matt Biondi
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Henry
Matthew Prior
4263. Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from
his way.
Matthew Prior
4264. Too many people miss the silver lining because they're
expecting gold.
Maurice Setter
4265. There is much to be said for failure. It is much more
interesting than success.
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4266. I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner
4267. The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but
that you change so little.
Max Lerner
4268. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its
opponents and making them see the light, but rather because
its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up
that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
4269. An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by
gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What
does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that
the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the
beginning.
4270. Why did I want to win? Because I didn't want to lose!
4271. Reality forms around your commitments. The achievement of
your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
4272. To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am
able to carry my ideas and values into the world that I am
able to change it in positive ways.
Max Planck
Max Schmelling
Max Steingart
Maxine Hong
Kingston
4273. Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is
not one's better abilities or idea, but the courage that one has
to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
4274. Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most
resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this
case, always tomorrow, after you have done your best to
achieve success today.
Maxwell Maltz
4275. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou
4276. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will
have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
4277. Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
4278. The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my
mind.
Maya Angelou
4279. We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years
old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some
people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in
their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time
the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like
everyone else.
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4280. Knowledge networks will revolutionize the global economy.
They will change the way we think, learn and work. The
prosperity of a nation and its industries will be determined to
a large degree by how well they can leverage the global
knowledge networks to develop their resources, collaborate,
innovate, and market their products and services.
4281. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank
you,” that would suffice.
4282. What great changes have not been ambitious?
4283. All respect comes from persisting to completion.
4284. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have
into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos
to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a
house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes
sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision
for tomorrow.
4285. One can play just so many tunes on the drum and bugle.
4286. The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and
dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful
areas.
4287. Cambia, todo cambia. Changing, everything is changing.
4288. One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years
of contentment.
4289. Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay
without them.
4290. So celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a
little higher each time you succeed.
4291. One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that
we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
4292. Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the
highest human values; honesty, integrity, self-discipline,
dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal
responsibility, courtesy, and human service.
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Meister Eckhart
Melinda Gates
Melissa Lima
Melody Beattie
Melvin Maddocks
Melvin Powers
Mercedes Sosa
Merle Shain
Merrit Malloy
Mia Hamm
Michael Cibenko
Michael DeBakey,
M.D.
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4293. Success is achievable without public recognition, and the
world has many unsung heroes. The teacher who inspires you
to pursue your education to your ultimate ability is a success.
The parents who taught you the noblest human principles are
a success. The coach who shows you the importance of
teamwork is a success. The spiritual leader who instills in you
spiritual values and faith is a success. The relatives, friends,
and neighbors with whom you develop a reciprocal
relationship of respect and support, they, too, are successes.
The most menial workers can properly consider themselves
successful if they perform their best and if the product of their
work is of service to humanity
4294. If it's not growing, it's going to die.
4295. There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to
improve yourself.
4296. Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on
reaching it.
4297. A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
4298. To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that
will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until
the goal is reached. The key is action.
4299. It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take
advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
4300. Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no
such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best
way to forecast the future is to create it.
4301. The greatest education in the world is watching the masters
at work.
4302. We judge ourselves by our best intentions and most noble
acts but we will be judged by our last worst act.
Michael DeBakey,
M.D.
Michael Eisner
Michael F. Staley
Michael Friedsam
Michael Garrett
Marino
Michael Hanson
Michael Harrington
Michael J. Gelb
Michael Jackson
Michael Josephson
4303. One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly
greater goals.
Michael Korda
4304. The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most
successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure
of their strength that failure merely propels them into some
new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
4305. Your chances of success are directly proportional to the
degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in
a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
4306. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are so many
tomorrows.
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4307. Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the
army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead
soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's
ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk
ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public
opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them
enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for
what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave
the comfortable path of conformity.
4308. Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Michael Moore
Michael O'Brien
4309. Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only
sitting on our own bottom.
Michel de
Montaigne
4310. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain
port.
Michel De
Montaigne
4311. Lord, grant that I might always desire more than I can
accomplish.
Michelangelo
4312. The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too
high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.
Michelangelo
4313. The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought
the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo
4314. Trifles make perfection. But perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
4315. It was frustrating as I prefer face-to-face action [on missing
boyfriend Any Scott-Lee whilst on a TV show]
4316. Good is the transcendence of self in service to others.
Michelle Heaton
Michelle Nunn
4317. You can have it all, but you can't do it all.
Michelle Pfeiffer
4318. If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've
obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.
Michelle Walker
4319. Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious
contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Dector
4320. I have no regrets because I know I did my best all I could do.
Midori Ito
4321. It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
4322. To be prepared is half the victory.
Mignon McLaughlin
Miguel De
Cervantes
4323. I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do
it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the
price, you can get it done.
Mike Ditka
4324. Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka
4325. You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
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4326. People don’t hate change, they hate how you’re trying to
change them.
Mike Kanazawa
4327. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Mike Murdock
4328. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for
you.
Mike Murdock
4329. Everything passes away, suffering, pain, blood, hunger,
pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will
still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds
have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not
know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes towards the
stars? Why?
Mikhail Bulgakov
4330. If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in
the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one,
but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
4331. It is not strange, to mistake change for progress.
4332. It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree.
It's what you do with your life that counts.
4333. Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't
want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism
is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have
seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there
where the spirit meets the bone.
4334. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
4335. So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they
stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business
activities other than to make as much money for their
stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they
do not.
4336. Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to
relinquish what you've held.
4337. On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.
4338. Never purchase beauty products in a hardware store.
4339. Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can
heal his broken arms and legs.
4340. For every problem there is a solution: simple, neat, and
wrong.
Mildred McAfee
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fuller
Miller Williams
Milton Berle
Milton Friedman
Milton Hall
Miriam Schiff
Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy
Mobil Oil Ad
4341. Work hard, stay focused and strive for your goal.
Monta Ellis
4342. Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
Monty Hall
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4343. You can’t run a shakuhachi through the computer without
splitting the bamboo.
4344. The more we exploit nature, The more our options are
reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
4345. Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there
are any mice out there.
4346. So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves,
instead of letting them alter us.
4347. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your
strength lies.
4348. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by
everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much
greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Monty Levenson
Morris K. Udall
Mortimer B.
Zuckerman
Mother Maribel
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
4349. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be
extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Teresa
4350. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
4351. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa
4352. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for
being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
4353. Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift
to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa
4354. God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you
try.
Mother Teresa
4355. God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be
faithful.
Mother Teresa
4356. Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa
4357. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending
a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa
4358. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa
4359. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there
can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
4360. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just
wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
4361. I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could
get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand
pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa
4362. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
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4363. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we
belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
4364. If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent
out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
4365. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa
4366. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
4367. If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent
out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
4368. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small
things with great love.
Mother Teresa
4369. Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
4370. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Mother Teresa
4371. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may
live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
4372. It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother Teresa
4373. It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa
4374. Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole
world.
Mother Teresa
4375. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
4376. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
4377. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is
the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
4378. Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of
kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we
seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa
4379. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not
enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love
them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa
4380. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received and let us not be
ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
4381. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most
terrible poverty.
4382. Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
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4383. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how
much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa
4384. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at
home.
Mother Teresa
4385. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every
hand.
4386. Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation
is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
4387. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa
4388. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in
heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping
us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
4389. Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
4390. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
4391. Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my
high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me
to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or
impatience.
Mother Teresa
4392. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but
rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
4393. The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a
mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you
and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
4394. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the
hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
4395. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are
happy to do it.
Mother Teresa
4396. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of
being unloved.
Mother Teresa
4397. The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of
loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the
other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does
not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa
4398. There are no great things, only small things with great love.
Happy are those.
Mother Teresa
4399. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for
the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love
and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ,
and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa
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4400. There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in
this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa
4401. There must be a reason why some people can afford to live
well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I
see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we
could use.
Mother Teresa
4402. There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting
point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean
someone's house. That says enough.
Mother Teresa
4403. We are all pencils in the hand of God.
Mother Teresa
4404. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
4405. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and
restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the
moon and the sun, how they move in silence...We need
silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
4406. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the
ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing
drop.
4407. We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
4408. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked
and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own
homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
4409. We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the
impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so
long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with
nothing.
4410. Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the
darkness.
4411. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked
and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own
homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Theresa
4412. A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Muhammad
4413. Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us
has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire
for ourselves.
Muhammad
4414. A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at
twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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4415. A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the
dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm
crowing.
4416. Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think
you are.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
4417. At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know.
Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali
4418. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
4419. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you
haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't
learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
4420. Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't
matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali
4421. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will
accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
4422. I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were
just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
4423. I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali
4424. I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
4425. I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my
brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali
4426. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world
that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
4427. I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit.
Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'‘
Muhammad Ali
4428. I know I got it made while the masses of black people are
catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
Muhammad Ali
4429. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't
have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I
want.
Muhammad Ali
4430. I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the
only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the
people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali
4431. I wish people would love everybody else the way they love
me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali
4432. If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure
make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
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4433. If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and
apologize.
Muhammad Ali
4434. I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
4435. I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali
4436. I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I
knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali
4437. I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my
hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali
4438. I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz
there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were
around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about
them.
Muhammad Ali
4439. It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's
the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
4440. It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali
4441. It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
4442. It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting
challenges, and I believe in myself.
Muhammad Ali
4443. It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali
4444. It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And
once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to
happen.
Muhammad Ali
4445. Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane
crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die
every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt,
some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen
to you.
4446. My toughest fight was with my first wife.
4447. My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke
in the world.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
4448. No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
Muhammad Ali
4449. Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
Muhammad Ali
4450. 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
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4451. Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different
names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they
all contain truths.
4452. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on
earth.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
4453. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
4454. Superman don't need no seat belt.
Muhammad Ali
4455. The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses behind the
lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I
dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
4456. The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
4457. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20
has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
4458. There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali
4459. There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have
been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali
4460. To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to
possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali
4461. Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of
poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
4462. We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is
all that will last.
Muhammad Ali
4463. What keeps me going is goals.
Muhammad Ali
4464. When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.
Muhammad Ali
4465. When you can whip any man in the world, you never know
peace.
Muhammad Ali
4466. A guy is walking on a beach, and he sees an old man. There
are thousands and thousands of starfish that have washed
onto the sand. The old man is bending down and picking up
these starfish, and he's throwing them in one by one. And the
young man comes up to him and says, “Why are you doing
that? There are thousands more? One won't make any
difference.” And the old man throws another starfish back and
says, “It made a lot of difference to that one.''
Muhammad Yunus
4467. Each individual person is very important. Each person has
tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives
of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond
her or his own time.
Muhammad Yunus
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4468. I did something that challenged the banking world.
Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the
absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't
have the opportunity to find that out.
4469. The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.
4470. If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more
mistakes next time.
4471. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can
tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Muhammad Yunus
N. H. Moos
Nadine Stair
Naguib Mahfouz
4472. It's hard to stay committed, to stay in touch with the goal
without saying there's something wrong with myself, my goal,
the world.
Nancy Hogshead
4473. Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to
learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone
has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to
be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.
Nancy Kerrigan
4474. A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4475. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4476. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those
endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All
depends on the principals which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4477. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4478. Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4479. There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the
spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by
the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4480. There are only two forces that unite men. Fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4481. Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4482. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4483. Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
4484. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.
Napoleon Hill
4485. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
4486. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin
at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into
action.
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4487. Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where
you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at
your command, and better tools will be found as you go
along.
Napoleon Hill
4488. Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light.
Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
4489. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it
the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
4490. Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill
4491. First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into
ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into
reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your
imagination.
Napoleon Hill
4492. It has always been my belief that a man should do his best,
regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the
number of people he may be serving or the class of people
served.
Napoleon Hill
4493. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by
helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill
4494. More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has
ever been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill
4495. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable
combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
4496. Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
4497. Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this,
you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible
desire.
Napoleon Hill
4498. The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows
what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever
the price may be.
Napoleon Hill
4499. The best job goes to the person who can get it done without
passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill
4500. The best way to finish an unpleasant task is to get started.
Napoleon Hill
4501. The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all
of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
Napoleon Hill
4502. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of
persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those
which fail.
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4503. The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this
constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a
small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
4504. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose
actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill
4505. There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that
is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants,
and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill
4506. Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not
always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of
saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire;
until you have formed the habit of looking for the good
instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither
successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
4507. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are
not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward
your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
4508. Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill
4509. There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless
and without words; realities which no one has thought out,
and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
4510. Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting
of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that
everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just
lie down.
4511. Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.
4512. On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's
your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to
your Maker all the rest.
4513. A man’s soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap or
in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.
Natalie Clifford
Barney
Natalie Goldberg
Natasha Josefowitz
Nathaniel Cotton
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
4514. The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
Nathaniel Howe
4515. Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.
Neal A. Maxwell
Neale Donald
Walsch
4516. Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation.
4517. Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you
choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose
to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose
more love in your life, cause another to have more love in
theirs.
4518. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
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Walsch
Neil Peart
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4519. The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been
in the race.
4520. The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how
an individual views a mistake,
4521. The first and most important step toward success is the
feeling that we can succeed.
4522. We're all pilgrims on the same journey, but some pilgrims
have better road maps.
4523. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade
you do not expect to sit.
Nellie Hershey Tullis
Nelson Boswell
Nelson Boswell
Nelson Demille
Nelson Henderson
4524. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable
combination.
Nelson Mandela
4525. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many
more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
4526. Communists have always played an active role in the fight by
colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term
objects of Communism would always correspond with the
long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela
4527. Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the
endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela
4528. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to
change the world.
Nelson Mandela
4529. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live
in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
4530. I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not
recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela
4531. I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing,
whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela
4532. I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
4533. I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its
leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this
continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all
our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
4534. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the
triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel
afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
4535. If the United States of America or Britain is having elections,
they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But
when we have elections, they want observers.
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Nelson Mandela
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4536. If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are
also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be
named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela
4537. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes
to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to
his heart.
Nelson Mandela
4538. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to
work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
4539. In my country we go to prison first and then become
President.
4540. It always seems impossible until its done.
4541. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will
appreciate your leadership.
4542. Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human
achievement.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
4543. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela
4544. Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela
4545. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful
land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
4546. Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into
contracts.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
4547. Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into
contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela
4548. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in
rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
4549. There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the
way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
4550. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us
will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our
desires.
4551. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for
a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
4552. There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela
4553. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains
unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have
altered.
Nelson Mandela
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4554. There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds
unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have
altered.
4555. We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time
is always ripe to do right.
4556. When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
4557. If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to
shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find
individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will
live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by
the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and
increasingly isolated by the changes round us.
4558. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is
uneducated the day after.
4559. Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is
little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are
able to turn both to their advantage.
4560. One change always leaves the way open for the establishment
of others.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Nena O'Neil
Newton D. Baker
Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
4561. Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which
could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.
4562. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous
to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the
lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the
innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may
do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from the
fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and
partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe
in new things until they have had long experience of them.
4563. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be
great.
4564. Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained
by stupidity.
Nick Diamos
4565. Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating
all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
4566. When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find
a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
Nido Qubein
4567. Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.
It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr
4568. If you have a 'why' to live by, you can live with any 'how'.
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4569. Just Do It.
Nike
4570. He's soft and he's fat and he's wearing my clothes and he's
getting too old and he was born on my birthday and I'm
afraid if I stop running, he'll catch up with me.
4571. Everything will change. The only question is growing up or
decaying.
4572. Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out
mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make
improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever
having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all
parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit,
just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It
is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or
test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this
way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a
single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless
light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all
been developed in exactly this way.
Nike Poster
Nikki Giovanni
Nikola Tesla
4573. As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of
action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky
4574. The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to
strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow
very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the
more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense
that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the
presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the
limits put on the range of the debate.
Noam Chomsky
4575. The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to
strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow
very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the
more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense
that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the
presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the
limits put on the range of the debate.
Noam Chomsky
4576. There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to
overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones:
search for understanding, education, organization, action ...
and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the
temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only
limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future.
Noam Chomsky
4577. Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does
something about it that makes a difference.
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Nolan Bushnell
265
4578. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing
something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas,
but there are few who decide to do something about them
now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true
entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
4579. If your eyes hurt after you drink coffee, you have to take the
spoon out of the cup.
Nolan Bushnell
Norm Crosby
4580. Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand
that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand
is free will.
Norman Cousins
4581. Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his
conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to
life.
Norman Cousins
4582. You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come
out completely dry. Most people do.
4583. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
4584. Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is
not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action
you take will be successful; perhaps different action or
adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than
no action at all.
Norman Juster
Norman R.
Augustine
Norman Vincent
Peale
4585. All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere
unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to
be or do -
Norman Vincent
Peale
4586. Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward
it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you
think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do
anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you
think you are.
Norman Vincent
Peale
4587. Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he
really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all
capable of greater things than we realize.
4588. Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to
be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities
always see them, for they're always there.
4589. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
4590. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads
and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent
Peale
4591. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads
and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent
Peale
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4592. Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you
don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
4593. It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must
spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some
satisfaction out of the relationship.
4594. It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must
spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some
satisfaction out of the relationship.
4595. Never mention the worst. Never think of it. Drop it out of your
consciousness.
4596. Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but
in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
4597. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they
have.
4598. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself,
the more energy you will have.
4599. There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference
between mediocrity and accomplishment.
4600. Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
4601. We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
4602. We tend to get what we expect.
4603. Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects
everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why,
when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the
world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire
planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot,
the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh,
gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever
you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's
much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn
something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
4604. We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
4605. You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you
become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
4606. It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to
feel yourself into a better way of action.
4607. Deserve your dream.
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Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norman Vincent
Peale
Norton Juster
Novalis
O. A. Battista
O. H. Mowrer
Octavio Paz
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4608. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest
later.
Og Mandino
4609. Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
4610. Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph
of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater
how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without
enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it
you can accomplish miracles.
Og Mandino
4611. It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who
advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one
who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly
dissipates his or her individuality.
Og Mandino
4612. Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial
and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real
challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as
work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You
are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you
have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight
change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding
from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now!
Not tomorrow!
Og Mandino
4613. Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in
all careers of importance, victory comes only after many
struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each
defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and
your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus
each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become
better, or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward;
turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your
future.
4614. The great difference between those who succeed and those
who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each
but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail
most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but
they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned,
building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They
do not grasp circumstances and change them into
opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats
into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the
major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back
and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is
never woven.
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4615. The only certain means of success is to render more and
better service than is expected of you, no matter what your
task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people
since the beginning of time. Therefore I say the surest way to
doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for
which you are paid.
Og Mandino
4616. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of
setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious
chore will become endurable as you parade through each day
convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring,
brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Og Mandino
4617. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of
setting goals and achieving them.
4618. Work as though you would live forever, and live as though
you would die today.
4619. One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you
win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be
the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is
why I love It.
4620. It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life
calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you, do what you
must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
4621. It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life
calmly and firmly (but very firmly!), "I trust you; do what you
must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
Og Mandino
Og Mandino
Oksana Baiul
Olga Ilyin
Olga Ilyin
4622. He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
4623. Make the iron hot by striking it.
Oliver Cromwell
4624. To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all
must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and
provide little service.
Oliver Goldsmith
4625. A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a
question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot
achieve.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
4626. A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to
its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
4627. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he
should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of
being not to have lived.
4628. Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Oliver Wendell
Holmes
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Holmes
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4629. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail
sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we
must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
4630. Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimension.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
4631. The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
4632. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are,
but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
4633. The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through
effort.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
4634. The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal.
There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill.
There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to
oneself, The work is done.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
4635. My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I
carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred
between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any
ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal
ambitions.
4636. We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the
lights of every passing ship.
4637. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for
the next moment.
4638. I think education is power. I think that being able to
communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on
the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Omar Bongo
Omar Bradley
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
4639. If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to
begin with the spirit.
Oprah Winfrey
4640. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
4641. That person just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to
let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it
doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today.
I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work,
find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump
ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.
4642. Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't
changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just
wearing better shoes.
4643. We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we
are.
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Oprah Winfrey
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4644. I'll prove that great things can happen to ordinary people if
they work hard and never give up.
4645. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim,
have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which
sometimes seemed impossible.
Orel Herhiser
Orison Swett
Marden
4646. Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that
would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing;
forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into
action.
Orison Swett
Marden
4647. Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see
farther.
Orison Swett
Marden
4648. Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes
through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let
superiority be your trademark,
4649. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering
before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly
through them.
4650. No man fails who does his best.
Orison Swett
Marden
Orison Swett
Marden
Orison Swett
Marden
4651. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they
will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them,
they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them
squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett
Marden
4652. Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the
opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which
you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett
Marden
4653. The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the
most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is
success, and there is no other.
4654. The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your
achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you
see in yourself, what sort of image you set your possible self,
yourself at your best.
4655. There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his
courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence.
He is still a king.
4656. There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level
best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our
best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which
holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
4657. We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when
we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Marden
Orison Swett
Marden
Orison Swett
Marden
Orison Swett
Marden
Orison Swett
Marden
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4658. We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
4659. Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any
possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
4660. You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know
what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him.
What did he get out of them.
4661. There is a good reason they call these ceremonies
'commencement exercises' Graduation is not the end; it's the
beginning.
4662. Excellence means when a man or a woman asks of himself
more than others do.
4663. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as
true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
4664. If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a
dream come true?
Orison Swett
Marden
Orison Swett
Marden
Orison Swett
Marden
Orrin Hatch
Ortega y Gasset
Orville Wright
Oscar Hammerstein
4665. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the
value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
4666. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and
his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the
world.
Oscar Wilde
4667. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember
from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be
taught.
Oscar Wilde
4668. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone
else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a
quotation.
Oscar Wilde
4669. Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
4670. We are all lying in the gutter but some of us are looking at
the stars.
Oscar Wilde
4671. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
4672. Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his
way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the
world.
Oscar Wilde
4673. Everything changes, nothing perishes. Omnia mutantur, nihil
interit.
Ovid
4674. If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
Ovid
4675. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least
expect it, will be fish.
Ovid
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4676. The road to triumph is built by adversity.
4677. I always advise people never to give advice.
4678. Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early
and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone
unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which
can be done just as well now.
4679. Mind is everything: muscle-pieces of rubber. All that I am, I
am because of my mind.
4680. The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one
purposes to do.
Ovid
P. G. Wodehouse
P. T. Barnum
Paavo Nurmi
Pablo Casals
4681. Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
4682. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
4683. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having
left undone.
Pablo Picasso
4684. The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with
triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for
all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch
to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.
Pam Brown
4685. Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep,
for every dream precedes the goal.
4686. I went through a terribly tumultuous period in my life when I
found myself, through no fault of my own, all alone in the
world at a fairly young age. I was 18, jobless, homeless and
without family. Not many people were kind to me and those
who I thought were my friends disappeared when I needed
help. I can remember the few people who were kind to me
and I try each day to repay them by extending some act of
kindness to others.
4687. The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of
success.
Pamela Vaull Starr
Papagoose
Paramahansa
Yogananda
4688. Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will
then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramanhansa
Yogananda
4689. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
4690. Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Pat Riley
4691. There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you
shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
4692. A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always
been known to all good men.
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4693. I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have
learnt.
Patrick White
4694. The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.
Patti LaBelle
4695. If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good,
then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
Paul Bear Bryant
4696. If you believe in yourself, have dedication and pride and
never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but
so are the rewards.
Paul Bear Bryant
4697. Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do,
winning takes care of itself.
Paul Bear Bryant
4698. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the
future.
Paul Boose
4699. A big part of winning is expecting to win.
Paul Cayard
4700. I hate to lose at anything. I fear failure.
Paul Cayard
4701. I think one of the most important lessons to learn is how to
lose and come back stronger the next time.
Paul Cayard
4702. At commencement you wear your square-shaped
mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let
your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
Paul Freund
4703. Until input (thought) is linked to a goal (purpose) there can
be no intelligent accomplishment.
Paul G. Thomas
4704. Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
4705. In times like these it helps to recall that there have always
been times like these.
Paul Harvey
4706. Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.
Paul Harvey
4707. It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard.
The difference is the curriculum.
Paul Hawken
4708. Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
Paul J. Meyer
4709. Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then
dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness
of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
Paul J. Meyer
4710. The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love,
and understanding between everyone around the world. We
have learned that change comes slowly.
Paul McCartney
4711. Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve
your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other
people say, think, or do.
Paul Meyer
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4712. I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are
always on their way. It has to do with distance and
accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how
available you are toward other people, or how much you
distance yourself.
4713. My whole artistic life has always been about change, change,
change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find
interesting.
4714. True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
4715. The first duty of love is to listen.
4716. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
4717. Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.
4718. I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet
victories. Victories over what? Over the system, over the
various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues'
indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very
concept of horn-blowing pride.
4719. When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our
courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there
is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in
saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life
does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us
to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
Paul Newman
Paul Simon
Paul Sweeney
Paul Tillich
Paul Valery
Paul Vernon Buser
Paul Wiener
Paulo Coelho
4720. Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from
engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The
means used are not important; to alienate human beings
from their own decision-making is to change them into
objects.
Paulo Freire
4721. Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and
the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be
neutral.
Paulo Freire
4722. All things are possible until they are proved impossible even
the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
4723. If you want to understand today, you have to search
yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck
4724. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest
good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams
themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de
la Barca
4725. If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all
the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter,
without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then
that will take you as far as you can go.
Pema Chodron
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4726. We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from
communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with
our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with
the people who are closest to us and we do it with political
systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our
associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, wellperfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others.
Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what
is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that
pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you
start to make yourself right and when you start to make
yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the
fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a
more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
4727. Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number —
Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen
on you — ye are many — they are few.
4728. Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number, Shake
your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you,
ye are many, they are few.
4729. The soul's joy lies in doing.
4730. Running: running: hear the beat! Busting lungs and pounding
feet. Straining: gaining: 'til you’re done: Or you have the race
well-won. Racing: pacing: rather die: Than give up or let
them by.
4731. You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't
know where you want to go.
4732. Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond,
many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
4733. Thus I urge you to go on to your greatness if you believe it is
in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what
you are prepared to do.
Pema Chödrön
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Percy Cerutty
Percy H. Johnson
Percy Ross
Percy Wells Cerutty
4734. Time is the wisest counsellor.
Pericles
4735. He conquers who endures.
Persius
4736. Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in
one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's.
4737. People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to
change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not
going to change the way we think, and it's not going to
change the way we feel.
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4738. Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be
a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people
that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher
sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher
standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal
limitations.
Peter Drucker
4739. One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated
people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most
people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we
need to work.
Peter Drucker
4740. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
4741. What you have to do and the way you have to do it is
incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's
another matter.
Peter Drucker
4742. Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet
reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter F. Drucker
4743. I knew, in 1965, that I was on the wrong road for the kind of
person I was. I had to change things.
Peter Fonda
4744. It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than
to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Peter Marshall
4745. The scholars must become workers so the workers may be
scholars.
4746. Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not
saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace
evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to
successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely
the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if
you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know
if the situation should be changed.
Peter Maurin
Peter McWilliams
4747. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Action
conquers fear.
Peter Nivio
Zarlenga
4748. To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a
Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
Peter Nivio
Zarlenga
4749. Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every
individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile,
comes in the movement.
Peter Nivio
Zarlenga
4750. Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for
them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned;
unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a
happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
Peter S. Beagle
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4751. Three people were at work on a construction site. All were
doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job
was, the answers varied. "Breaking rocks," the first replied.
"Earning my living," the second said. "Helping to build a
cathedral," said the third.
4752. There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three
things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace
of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone
else.
4753. Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon
them.
4754. You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
4755. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in
feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by
heart-throbs. He most lies who thinks most, feels the noblest,
acts the best.
4756. The trouble in America is not that we are making too many
mistakes, but that we are making too few.
4757. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Peter Schultz
Peyton Conway
March
Phantom F. Harlock
Philip Green
Philip James Bailey
Philip Knight
Philo
4758. We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at
them.
Phyllis Bottome
4759. Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
4760. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller
4761. When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it
always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, "I'm
going to prove you wrong!"
Picabo Street
4762. Paul is like a bulldog. Once he bites onto something, he never
lets go.
Pierre Cayard
4763. To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
4764. The important thing in the Olympic games is not to win but to
take part, the important thing in life is not the triumph but
the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but
to have fought well. To spread these precepts is to build up a
stronger and more valiant and, above all, more scrupulous
and more generous humanity.
4765. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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Pierre De Coubertin
Pierre Rousseau
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4766. We only have to look around us to see how complexity and
psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on
the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This
indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the
objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the
planet 'as a whole.'
4767. The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express:
Err and err again but less and less and less.
Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin
Piet Hein
4768. Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
Pindar
4769. O my soul, do not aspire to the immortal, but exhaust the
limits of the possible.
Pindar
4770. The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of
consciousness into our awareness.
Pir Vilayat Khan
4771. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
4772. Better a little which is well done, than a great deal
imperfectly.
Plato
4773. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body;
but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no
hold on the mind.
Plato
4774. Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato
4775. Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
4776. Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato
4777. Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato
4778. Democracy passes into despotism.
Plato
4779. Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of
variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to
equals and unequals alike.
Plato
4780. Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most
aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most
extreme liberty.
Plato
4781. Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is
far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and
too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far
more fatal.
Plato
4782. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart
whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At
the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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4783. Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in
the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in
individuals, or in governments.
4784. Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems
only to pass into excess of slavery.
4785. Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time
of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the
spirit.
4786. For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all
victories.
4787. For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
4788. For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned
as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never
disturbed without affecting the most important political
institutions.
4789. Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good
actions in others.
Plato
Plato
Plato
Plato
Plato
Plato
Plato
4790. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
4791. Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two
professions or two arts rightly.
Plato
4792. He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato
4793. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than
he who suffers it.
Plato
4794. He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Plato
4795. He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the
pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition
youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato
4796. He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who
steals much, but with less power.
Plato
4797. Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
4798. How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping,
and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake,
and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato
4799. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire,
emotion, and knowledge.
4800. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is
the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly
conflict.
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4801. I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable
of reasoning.
Plato
4802. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of
my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato
4803. I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato
4804. I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato
4805. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his
life.
Plato
4806. If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Plato
4807. Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor
excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness
and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training,
are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
4808. Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
4809. Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of
suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing
injustice.
Plato
4810. It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is
but a sojourn.
Plato
4811. It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels
the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this
world to the other.
Plato
4812. It is right to give every man his due.
Plato
4813. Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as
first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Plato
4814. Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling
with other men's concerns.
4815. Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the
greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato
Plato
4816. Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato
4817. Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato
4818. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no
hold on the mind.
4819. Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather
than wisdom.
4820. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the
spirit of reverence.
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Plato
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4821. Life must be lived as play.
Plato
4822. Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
4823. Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the
amazement of the Gods.
Plato
4824. Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato
4825. Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Plato
4826. Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening
in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato
4827. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to
the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to
life and to everything.
Plato
4828. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the
education of its virtue.
Plato
4829. Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato
4830. Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato
4831. No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after
death.
Plato
4832. No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato
4833. No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling
to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
4834. No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well
who wants to govern.
Plato
4835. No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Plato
4836. No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the
freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains
rooted in the memory.
4837. Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
4838. Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in
our country of men and women not following the same
pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus,
the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
Plato
Plato
4839. Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato
4840. One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato
4841. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is
that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
4842. Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Plato
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4843. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
4844. Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest
happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato
4845. People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you
grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make
you wilt and die.
Plato
4846. Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
4847. Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
4848. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
4849. Poets utter great and wise things which they do not
themselves understand.
Plato
4850. Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato
4851. Science is nothing but perception.
Plato
4852. States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato
4853. The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
4854. The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
Plato
4855. The community which has neither poverty nor riches will
always have the noblest principles.
Plato
4856. The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things
can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort
rather than no sort.
Plato
4857. The direction in which education starts a man will determine
his future in life.
Plato
4858. The direction in which education starts a man will determine
his future in life.
Plato
4859. The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the
opposite direction.
4860. The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure
the vision of the divine.
Plato
Plato
4861. The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be
conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
4862. The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato
4863. The good is the beautiful.
Plato
4864. The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
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4865. The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be
ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
4866. The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you
are not.
Plato
4867. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but
little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
4868. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness
depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted
the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of
moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
4869. The measure of a man is what he does with power.
4870. The most important part of education is proper training in the
nursery.
Plato
Plato
Plato
Plato
4871. The most virtuous are those who content themselves with
being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato
4872. Your silence gives consent.
Plato
4873. Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many
things which cannot be overcome when they are together,
yield themselves up when taken little by little.
4874. The measure of a man is the way he bears up under
misfortune.
Plutarch
Plutarch
4875. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
4876. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
4877. Knowing how to win is the first step. We must also know how
to make use of our victories.
Polybius
4878. Those that know how to win are much more numerous than
those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
4879. The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is
more than human who errors not at all.
4880. There are three ways a man can be ruined: women,
gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.
4881. Thoughtfulness affects success more than age and hard work.
Polybius
Pomfret
Pope John XXIII
Poye Poye
4882. Faith is power to believe and power to see.
Prentice Mulford
4883. Expect victory and you make victory.
Preston Bradley
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4884. I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in
whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a
man may; consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he
can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is
ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the
desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is
defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies
within.
4885. The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the
basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with
something else.
4886. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
4887. You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the
comfortable.
4888. We're all fugitives, and the things we didn't do yesterday are
the bloodhounds.
Preston Bradley
Preston Bradley
Prince
Princess Diana
Prism
4889. Confidence is the bond of friendship.
Publilius Syrus
4890. If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus
4891. No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
4892. To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus
4893. It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this
occupation ought to last as long as life.
4894. No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the
stars.
4895. Seize the day, Carpe Diem
4896. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To
change something, build a new model that makes the existing
model obsolete.
4897. We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
Queen Christina
Quintus Ennius
Quintus Horatius
Flaccus
R. Buckminster
Fuller
R. C. Allen
4898. Getting things done is not always what is most important.
There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is
not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
R. D. Clyde
4899. We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded
up that we begin to see the present only when it is already
disappearing.
R. D. Laing
4900. When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you
prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant
4901. No person can be lost by following the simple and well-beaten
path of ordinary devotion and prayer.
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4902. If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every
situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled
with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
4903. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still
dark.
4904. Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
4905. You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water.
Rabbi Harold
Kushner
Rabindranath
Tagore
Rabindranath
Tagore
Rabindranath
Tagore
4906. We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads
in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The
road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a
smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed,
but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road the one
less traveled by offers our last, our only chance to reach a
destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
Rachel Carson
4907. Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas
are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
Rachel Naomi
Remen
4908. Healing is not a matter of technique or mechanism; it is a
work of spirit.
4909. We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
4910. Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations
unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
4911. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask
them.
Rachel Naomi
Remen
Ralp Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Charell
Ralph Gerard
4912. It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is
how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the
problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to
solve it.
Ralph Marston
4913. Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your
body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
Ralph Marston
4914. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston
4915. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for
every dream precedes the goal.
4916. A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered
a mind that startled us.
4917. A man is what he thinks about all day long.
4918. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
4919. As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to
be in his way.
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Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Emerson
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4920. Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life
is an experiment.
4921. Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life
is an experiment.
4922. Every wall is a door.
4923. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.
4924. Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
4925. For the resolute and determined there is time and
opportunity.
4926. God enters by a private door into every individual.
4927. Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they
be executed!
4928. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned
the secret of life.
4929. Hitch your wagon to a star.
4930. How do you measure success? To laugh often, and much; to
win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure
the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the
best inin others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a
healthy child, a redeemed social condition, or a job well done;
to know even one other life has breathed because you lived
this is to have succeeded.
4931. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
4932. If in the least particular one could derange the order of
nature, who would accept the gift of life?
4933. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instinct,
and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
4934. It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4935. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that
no man can sincerely try to help another without helping
himself.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4936. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be
understood.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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4937. Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for
worries.
4938. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4939. Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always
make that day tomorrow
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4940. Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to
another aim.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4941. Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the
preparation for their victories.
4942. No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
4943. Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
4944. None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or
commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is
heard by him alone.
4945. Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my
state of mind.
4946. Nothing external to you has any power over you.
4947. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4948. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it
happen.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4949. Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what
we can.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4950. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we
know we could be.
4951. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up
every time we fail.
4952. Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things
alive and significant.
4953. Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
4954. People only see what they are prepared to see.
4955. Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have
blundered, we will not.
4956. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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Emerson
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Emerson
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Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Emerson
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Emerson
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Emerson
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4957. The definition of success - To laugh much; to win respect of
intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the
approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false
friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to
give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social
condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and
sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.
4958. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4959. The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true every
day.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4960. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the
common.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4961. The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in
our own powers.
4962. The never-ending task of self improvement.
4963. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
4964. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
4965. The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the
most serious occupation of manhood.
4966. The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
4967. The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind
us.
4968. The world belongs to the energetic.
4969. There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4970. They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned
the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a
fear.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4971. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know
what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4972. Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh
and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4973. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we
must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4974. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit
behind it.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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4975. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have
lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4976. To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation
of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to
appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the
world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4977. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly
and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4978. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly
and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
already mastered, you will never grow.
4980. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
4981. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
4982. We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
4983. We are wiser than we know.
4984. We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4985. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people
think.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4986. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4987. What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
4988. What you are comes to you.
4989. What you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you say.
4990. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone
to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties
arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires
courage.
4991. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
4992. When it is darkest, men see the stars.
4993. When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do
it.
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Emerson
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Emerson
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Emerson
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Emerson
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4994. Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a
change.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4995. Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in
wisdom.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4996. Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one
finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have
to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job.
4997. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4998. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the
year.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
4999. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how
soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
5000. A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not
depend on outside conditions.
5001. Thoughts are forces.
Ralph Waldo Trine
Ralph Waldo Trine
5002. Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence
and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
5003. The brick walls are not there to keep us out, the brick walls
are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want
something.
Randy Pausch
5004. The brick walls are there for a reason. They are there to stop
the other people.
Randy Pausch
5005. If the big isn't happening in your life then it's usually
something small you're not doing!
5006. Don't think too much. Do! Your intuition is often the better
guide.
5007. I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
5008. There are two types of people who will tell you that you
cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid
to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will
succeed.
5009. Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing
when it is absolutely necessary.
5010. It's a matter of having principles. It's easy to have principles
when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles
when you're poor.
5011. What we have created is a business organization dedicated to
rigid principles.
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Charles
Ray Goforth
Ray Knight
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc
291
5012. You're only as good as the people you hire.
Ray Kroc
5013. The most prepared are the most dedicated.
Raymond Berry
5014. No matter what we want of life we have to give up something
in order to get it.
5015. He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle
himself away.
5016. Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and
failing.
5017. It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
Raymond Holliwell
Raymond Hull
Raymond Radiguet
Rear Admiral Grace
Hopper
5018. The most damaging phrase in the language is: It's always
been done that way.
Rear Admiral Grace
Hopper
5019. When you have a good idea and you've tried it and know it's
going to work, go ahead and do it—because it is much easier
to apologize later than to get permission.
Rear Admiral Grace
Hopper
5020. Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You
can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections,
you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end,
hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful
people.
Rear Admiral
Marsha Evans
5021. Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.
Red Symons
5022. No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.
Reggie Miller
5023. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities;
an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
5024. Mahatma Gandhiji would always offer full details of his plans
and movements to the police, thereby saving them a great
deal of trouble. One police inspector who availed himself of
Gandhi’s courtesy in this matter is said to have been severely
reprimanded by his chief. ‘Don’t you know,’ he told the
inspector, ‘that everyone who comes into close contact with
that man goes over to his side?’
5025. Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.
5026. I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help
and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could
choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most
simple and direct efforts of this kind.
5027. Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds
upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
5028. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that
at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all
things.
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Reginald Reynolds
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
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5029. You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every
mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
5030. In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
5031. The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take
positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as
he lives.
5032. It is not the strength of the man's muscles that beats the
other man; it is the strength of the man's mind that overcame him.
5033. We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart
goals.
Rene McPherson
Rent Char
Reverend Vaughan
Quinn
Ricardo Quique
Rich Pilon
5034. Argue for your limitations and surely you will have them.
Richard Bach
5035. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
5036. That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the
game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it that we never had before, to
apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
Richard Bach
5037. You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few
forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in
the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from
the same jewel.
Richard Bach
5038. Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to
pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Richard Cecil
5039. Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable
back to an annual or quarterly plan.
Richard E. Griggs
5040. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
5041. I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is
just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard Feynman
5042. I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to
change that here and there.
Richard Feynman
5043. If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have
been worth the Nobel Prize.
5044. It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't
matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with
experiment, it's wrong.
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5045. It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of
uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of
human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined,
permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in
various periods in the history of man.
Richard Feynman
5046. Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns,
so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization
of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman
5047. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert
night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard Feynman
5048. Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature
cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
5049. Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in
uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive
that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to
watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard Feynman
5050. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you
are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
5051. The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to
judge the value of your contribution; not just the information
that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Richard Feynman
5052. There is a computer disease that anybody who works with
computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it
interferes completely with the work. The trouble with
computers is that you 'play' with them!
Richard Feynman
5053. We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is
not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there
are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility
is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the
solutions, and pass them on.
Richard Feynman
5054. Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma
for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
Richard Halliburton
5055. Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action.
Richard Keeves
5056. Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is
had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans
5057. Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Richard Lovelace
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5058. If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that
I regard as being most highly correlated with success,
whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence.
Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked
down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here
comes number seventy-one!"
Richard M. DeVos
5059. Life, It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to
meet our expectations.
Richard M. DeVos
5060. A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when
he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
5061. Defeat doesn't finish a person, quit does. A person is not
finished when defeated. A person is finished when he or she
quits.
Richard M. Nixon
5062. Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life,
that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal
of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh
the pain if you recognize historically that always happens,
then when it comes, you survive it.
5063. Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged.
Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But
those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then
you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
5064. The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Richard M. Nixon
5065. The greatness comes not when things go always good for
you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested,
when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when
sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest
valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the
highest mountain.
Richard M. Nixon
5066. What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and
snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough
and strong enough, you learn that you can change those
attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
5067. The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.
5068. Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become
available to deeper aliveness.
5069. No one wants to quit when losing and no one wants to quit
when winning.
5070. The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures
but the one who turns failures to best account.
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Nixon
Richard Monckton
Milnes
Richard Moss
Richard Petty
Richard R. Grant
295
5071. As long as our social order regards the good of institutions
rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation
for the rebel.
5072. Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will
not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest
component.
5073. The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it
should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It
should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so
far that you break.
Richard Roberts
Richard Russo
Rick Hansen
5074. To finish first, you must first finish.
Rick Mears
5075. Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about
coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino
5076. I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body,
my career, and getting married.
5077. A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and
spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
5078. Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never
hope more than you work.
5079. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the
rewards of success.
Ricki Lake
Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown
Rob Gilbert
5080. Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One
could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the
solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what
could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein
5081. I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein
5082. If you focus on what you want instead of what you don't
want, you will know when it is time to take action. And when
you do, it will be effortless.
5083. Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The
truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results,
and reasons simply don't count.
5084. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work
he's supposed to be doing at the moment.
5085. The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is
an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other
words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you
think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
5086. When you do not know what you are doing and what you are
doing is the best that is inspiration.
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Robert Anthony
Robert Benchley
Robert Bierstedt
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5087. A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
Robert Browning
5088. A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
5089. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a
heaven for?
Robert Browning
5090. My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning
5091. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing
something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas,
but there are few who decide to do something about them
now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true
entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
Robert Browning
5092. Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is
change.
Robert Burns
5093. The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
5094. Change is inevitable except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher
5095. Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be
educated.
Robert C. Savage
5096. All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need,
then the means.
Robert Collier
5097. Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus
with power to attract to itself everything needed for its
fulfillment.
Robert Collier
5098. The first principle of success is desire knowing what you want.
Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier
5099. The great successful men of the world have used their
imagination, they think ahead and create their mental picture
in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering
this a bit and that a bit, but steadily buildingsteadily building.
Robert Collier
5100. Very few persons, comparatively, know how to desire with
sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and
manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent,
demanding, ravenous desire which is akin to the persistent,
insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man
for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for
a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.
5101. Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the
present.
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5102. The way I see it, there are two kinds of dreams. One is a
dream that's always going to be just that, a dream. A vision
that you can never really hold in your hand. Then there's a
dream that's more than a dream its like, a map. A map that
you live by and follow for the rest of your days knowing that
someday your going to stand on top of that mountain holding
everything you thought of right there in your hand!
5103. He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable
has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.
Robert Cooper
Robert Estabrook
5104. Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both
consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process
of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life.
You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of
yourself.
Robert F. Bennett
5105. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of
us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the
total; of all those acts will be written the history of this
generation.
Robert F. Kennedy
5106. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
5107. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask
why, I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert F. Kennedy
5108. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life
but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of
imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the
appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
Robert F. Kennedy
5109. Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing
one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of
the world's ills - against misery and ignorance, injustice and
violence...Few will have the greatness to bend history itself;
but each of us can work to change a small portion of events,
and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of
this generation...It is from the numberless diverse acts of
courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a
man (or a woman) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve
the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he (or she)
sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a
million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples
build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of
oppression and resistance.
Robert Francis
Kennedy
5110. College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost
5111. Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could
have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Robert Frost
5112. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths
being in and out of favour.
Robert Frost
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5113. The only way around is through.
Robert Frost
5114. The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work,
the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
5115. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less
traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
5116. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to
almost anything without losing your temper or selfconfidence.
5117. You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
5118. It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of
yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Robert Goddard
5119. It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of
yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert Goddard
5120. The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God
pity a one-dream man.
Robert Goddard
5121. You will never win if you never begin.
5122. There is something that is much more scarce, something
rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Robert H. Schuller
Robert Half
5123. In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives
the Benediction.
Robert Herrick
5124. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench
than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine
shop.
Robert Hughes
5125. There is no achievement without goals.
Robert J. McKain
5126. If you're prepared, then you're able to feel confident.
Robert J. Ringer
5127. Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they
appear to be, but the way they actually are.
Robert J. Ringer
5128. Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
Robert Kiyosaki
5129. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the
seeds that you plant.
5130. I know what happiness is for I have done good work.
5131. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no
preparation is thought necessary.
5132. Sit loosely in the saddle of life.
5133. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen
you bring up there.
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Robert Louis
Stevenson
Robert Louis
Stevenson
Robert Louis
Stevenson
Robert Louis
Stevenson
Robert M. Pirsig
299
5134. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and
head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig
5135. A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)
Robert McClure
5136. If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about
failure.
5137. Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you
have lost.
5138. As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the
uniqueness of others.
5139. Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing
flawlessly.
Robert S. Hillyer
Robert Schuller
Robert Schuller
Robert Schuller
5140. Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do
something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he
can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most
important battle, he defeated his fear of trying.
Robert Schuller
5141. For every mountain there is a miracle.
Robert Schuller
5142. If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is
meaningless.
Robert Schuller
5143. Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Robert Schuller
5144. It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to
survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative
thoughts.
Robert Schuller
5145. Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Robert Schuller
5146. Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible
conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Robert Schuller
5147. Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never
shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
5148. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular
preparation.
Robert Schuller
Robert Schuller
5149. Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
Robert Schuller
5150. What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller
5151. What would you do if you knew that you could not fail?
Robert Schuller
5152. You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Robert Schuller
5153. Talent works, genius creates.
Robert Schumann
5154. It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're
tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
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5155. It's the plugging away that will win you the day, So don't be a
piker, old pard! Just draw on your grit, it's so easy to quit:
It's the keeping-your-chin-up that's hard. It's easy to cry that
you're beaten and die; It's easy to crawfish and crawl; But to
fight and to fight when hope's out of sight Why, that's the
best game of them all! And though you come out of each
grueling bout, All broken and beaten and scarred, Just have
one more try it's dead easy to die, It's the keeping-on-living
that's hard.
5156. In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and
confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our
hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to
be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is
from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of
reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after
all, one heart touching another heart.
5157. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is
merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do
anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control
your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
5158. You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
5159. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets
painful is the man who will win.
5160. The reality of life is that your perceptions right or wrong
influence everything else you do. When you get a proper
perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how
many other things fall into place.
5161. You win not by chance, but by preparation.
5162. Insanity is doing the same thing you've always done and
expecting different results.
5163. Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of
something, hours and days and weeks and years of constant
work and dedication.
Robert W. Service
Roberta Sage
Hamilton
Robyn Davidson
Rocky Aoki
Roger Bannister
Roger Birkman
Roger Maris
Roger Milliken
Roger Staubach
5164. Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you
learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you
the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger von Oech
5165. There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need
to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want
it? You will need to decide.
Rolf Arands
5166. I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm
not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
Roman Polanski
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5167. Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education,
pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there
thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
5168. As recent students of utopia have articulated, vigorous
utopian thinking sketches models of a peaceable kingdom,
points us toward society's repressed possibilities, enables us
to see more clearly actual tendencies, both positive and
negative, strengthens our grounds for rejecting existing social
forms, reactivates lost dreams and longings, and encourages
political action.
Ron Jaworski
Ronald Aronson
Ronald E. Osborn
5170. Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely
on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want
them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.
Ronald McNair
Ronald Osborn
5172. Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan
5173. It will take time for us all to understand what has happened
to us, but it is a joy to be surrounded by such happiness.
5174. The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As
long as you're learning you're not old.
5175. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be
tough enough to follow through.
Ronaldo
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Rosalynn Carter
5176. You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best
and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried.
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high
goals, you don't branch out, you don't try – you don't take
the risk.
Rosalynn Carter
5177. He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.
Roscoe Conklin
5178. The fastest way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Roseanne Arnold
5179. Be ready when opportunity comes, Luck is the time when
preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy D. Chapin Jr
5180. I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I
was climbing as high as I KNEW I could and then letting go.
On my next try I climbed with no thought of failure and
reached the top. We cannot know what we can do in advance.
The only way to find out is to go all-out trying, thinking only
of success.
5181. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single
excuse.
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5182. I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who
hears or what they think.
Rumi
5183. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
5184. I'm a catalyst for change, You can't be an outsider and be
successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of
scar tissue around the place.
5185. The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small
anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
5186. Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something
new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits,
even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius.
Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In
both cases we have to DO something.
5187. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you
to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
5188. I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to
those people who are locked out.
5189. I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in
communities, and I want to help people see their community
in each other.
must do.
5191. Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are
some men and women who refuse to believe that what they
know to be right cannot be done.
5192. There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the
circuits of our highest potential.
5193. Only those who dare, truly live.
5194. There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it's
what we do with them that's important.
5195. When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the
price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to
us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go
ahead and pay.
5196. Notice the difference between what happens when a man
says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens
when he says, I am a failure.
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Rupert Murdoch
Rush Limbaugh
Russell Green
Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons
Russell Taylor
Russell W.
Davenport
Rusty Berkus
Ruth Freedman
Ruth Ross
Ruth Stout
S. I. Hayakawa
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5197. Riches prick us with a thousand troubles in getting them, as
many cares in preserving them, and yet more anxiety in
spending them, and with grief in losing them.
5198. Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but
with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God
everything.
5199. Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this,
you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible
desire. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of
explanation.
5200. Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have
decided, act promptly.
5201. Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
5202. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the
malcontents.
5203. Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do
something that you said couldn't be done.
5204. Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may
like it.
5205. High expectations are the key to everything.
5206. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail
better.
Saint Francis
Saint Ignatius of
Loyola
Saki
Sallust
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
Sam Ewing
Sam Ewing
Sam Walton
Samuel Beckett
5207. He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
5208. Tact is golden, no silence.
Samuel Butler
5209. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing
without it.
Samuel Butler
5210. I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the
ability to take advantage of it, The man who can smile at his
breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn
5211. You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn
5212. Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so
few at the top it is almost lonely there.
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5213. All the performances of human art, at which we look with
praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of
perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a
pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If
a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of
one impression of the spade, with the general design and the
last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their
disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly
continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and
mountains are leveled and oceans bounded by the slender
force of human beings.
Samuel Johnson
5214. Clear your mind of can’t.
Samuel Johnson
5215. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill, Great works
are performed, not by strength, but endurance.
Samuel Johnson
5216. Great works are performed not by strength but by
perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
5217. Great works are performed not by strength but by
perseverance.
5218. He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do
anything.
5219. Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty,
sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be
insupportable.
5220. If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his
troubles.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
5221. If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works
are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
5222. In all pleasure, hope is a considerable part
Samuel Johnson
5223. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must
first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
5224. The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson
5225. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest
human felicity.
Samuel Johnson
5226. You can't start at the top.
Samuel Levenson
5227. He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
5228. Hope, is the companion of power, and the mother of success;
for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
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5229. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success;
they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study,
advice, and example could never have taught them so well as
failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
5230. It is energy - the central element of which is will - that
produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages.
Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the
sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles
5231. It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow
rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the
success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or
injustice. And even though a man should for a time be
unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save
character. For character is itself a fortune,
Samuel Smiles
5232. Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make
it.
Samuel Smiles
5233. No pains, no gains.
Samuel Smiles
5234. Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be
satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Samuel Smiles
5235. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not
do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a
discovery.
Samuel Smiles
5236. If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake
begin at the end.
Sara Jeannette
Duncan
5237. You simply will not be the same person two months from now
after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance
that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an
ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for,
the more will be given you.
5238. If school results were the key to power, girls would be
running the world.
5239. We build the road and the road builds us.
5240. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is
knowing which ones to keep.
Sarah Ban
Breathnach
Sarah Boseley
Sarvodaya
Shramadana
Scott Adams
5241. To go faster, slow down. Everybody who knows about orbital
mechanics understands that.
Scott Cherf
5242. This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes
everything.
Scott Reed
5243. To know is to control.
Scott Reed
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5244. With a definite, step-by-step plan, ah, what a difference it
makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along
to the next, like a track,
5245. Do not learn from your mistakes, learn from the mistakes of
others so that you do not make any.
5246. There's always room at the top.
5247. Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has
spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down,
come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the
mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half
night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much
depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And
they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on
inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and
knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
5248. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Scott Reed
Sean Karsten
Senator Daniel
Webster
Senator Eugene
Mccarthy
Senator Robert F.
Kennedy
5249. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
5250. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves
more, that is poor.
Seneca
5251. Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Seneca
5252. Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man
does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the
right wind.
5253. Choosing to live your life by your own choice is the greatest
freedom you will ever have.
5254. You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your
dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You
are as unlimited as the endless universe.
5255. If one could only learn to appreciate the little things ... A song
that takes you away, for there are those who cannot hear.
The beauty of a sunset, for there are those who cannot see.
The warmth and safety of your home, for there are those who
are homeless. Time spent with good friends for there are
those who are lonely. A walk along the beach for there are
those who cannot walk. The little things are what life is all
about. Search your soul and learn to appreciate.
Seneca
Shad Helmstetter
Shad Helmstetter
Shadi Souferian
5256. Put your hands to work and your hearts to God.
Shaker saying
5257. Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make
things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I
began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out
what "it" wanted me to do.
Shakti Gawain
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5258. Other people may not have had high expectations for me, but
I had high expectations for myself.
5259. If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that
something happens.
5260. All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas Layin' in the sun, Talkin' bout
the things They woulda-coulda-shoulda done... But those
Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas All ran away and hid From one little
did.
5261. If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when
trouble arrives, you can only win.
5262. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness
exhausts me completely.
5263. If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want
to grow any more.
5264. What really matters is what you do with what you have.
5265. It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in
love, drunk, or running for office.
5266. Good luck needs no explanation.
5267. Hope is the confidence or belief pertaining to ones ability to
predict outcomes. When the foundations of that confidence or
belief are shaken, hope slowly melts away.
Shannon Miller
Sheila Ballantyne
Shel Silverstein
Shelley Long
Sherlock Holmes
Shirley Hufstedler
Shirley Lord
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley Temple
Black
Shrikant
5268. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the
expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
5269. Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we
cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it
is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot
accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
5270. It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into
the hours that counts.
Sidney Madwed
5271. Real poverty is lack of books.
Sidonie Gabrielle
5272. Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know
yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound
to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid
falling ill.
Sigmund Freud
5273. Thought is action in rehearsal.
Sigmund Freud
5274. When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet
it.
Sigmund Freud
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5275. I come from a broken home and I didn't appreciate Katie
Hopkin's actions. I don't think sleeping with married men is a
good idea.
5276. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now,
without delay.
Simon Ambrose
Simone de Beauvoir
5277. A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are
found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Simone Weil
5278. Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic
of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of
real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is
never conscious of it.
Simone Weil
5279. It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are
infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
5280. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent
instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
5281. You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to
compete. You can be just an ordinary person, sufficiently
motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the
giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant side effect.
5282. It's not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
5283. I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
5284. Not everything that counts can be counted, and not
everything that can be counted counts.
5285. Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only
in the minds of little children.
Sir Edmond Hillary
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir Edward
Appleton
Sir George Picketing
Sir Herbert Read
5286. The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to
me by my failures.
Sir Humphrey Davy
5287. Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can
have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Sir James M. Barrie
5288. Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it
all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
Sir James M. Barrie
5289. Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot
keep it from themselves.
5290. You must have been warned against letting the golden hours
slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let
them slip.
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5291. We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because
we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted
our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to
find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say,
'you must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that. '
The human spirit is indomitable.
5292. The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being
governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to
the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
5293. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless
pebbles.
Sir Roger Bannister
Sir Thomas Aquinas
Sir Thomas Browne
5294. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great
difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy
invincible determination a purpose once fixed, and then death
or victory.
Sir Thomas Fowell
Buxton
5295. With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all
things are attainable.
Sir Thomas Fowell
Buxton
5296. Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever.
Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the
best motto for a long march is: "Don't grumble. Plug on!"
5297. Be bold, have the will to do, the soul to dare.
5298. But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their
like again.
Sir Thomas Treves
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
5299. If you turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to
rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Sir Walter Scott
5300. Education would be so much more effective if its purpose
were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy
and girl should know how much they don't know, and be
imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Sir William Haley
5301. The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear
much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to
distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
5302. The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and
happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native
capacities to their greatest extent.
Sir William Temple
Smiley Blanton
5303. An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
5304. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's
writings so that you shall come easily by what others have
labored hard for.
Socrates
5305. He is richest who is content with the least.
Socrates
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5306. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them
think.
5307. I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for
doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for
doing good.
Socrates
Socrates
5308. Know Thyself.
Socrates
5309. Let him who would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
5310. Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can
resist change.
5311. The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to
be thought to be.
Socrates
Socrates
5312. To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates
5313. To move the world, we must first move ourselves.
Socrates
5314. Success is 99 percent failure.
5315. Pursue worthy aims.
Soichiro Honda
Solon
5316. Excess, upon occasion can be exhilarating, because it
prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a
habit.
5317. It's funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything
but the best, you very often get it.
5318. It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.
5319. After all these years, I am still involved in the process of selfdiscovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than
to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a
full life.
Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maughm
Sondra Anice
Barnes
Sophia Loren
5320. Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
5321. Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
5322. Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every
generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
5323. Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived
forwards.
5324. Life must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard
5325. Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they
hurry past it.
5326. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to
lose oneself.
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5327. The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
Soren Kirkegaard
5328. How far is far, how high is high? We'll never know until we
try.
Special Olympics
5329. Actions speak louder than coaches.
5330. Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the
stress and strain of meeting those goals.
5331. We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics
we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the
goal of graduation and degrees. Our total existence is goaloriented. We must have goals to make progress, encouraged
by keeping records, as the swimmer or the jumper or the
runner does, Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and
measured, Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets
the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. Goals
should always be made to a point that will make us reach and
strain.
5332. I don't play small. You have to go out and play with what you
have. I admit I used to want to be tall. But I made it in high
school, college, and now the pros. So it doesn't matter.
5333. Faith is believing what we do not see. The reward of this faith
is to see what we believe.
5334. People are able to wonder at the height of mountains, and the
huge waves of the sea, the vast compass of the ocean, at the
circular motion of the stars, and then pass by themselves
without wondering at all.
5335. Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their
hands.
5336. True progress quietly and persistently moves along without
notice.
5337. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run
by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you
learn to love by loving.
Speedo Ad
Spencer W. Kimball
Spencer W. Kimball
Spud Webb
St. Augustine
St. Augustine
St. Benedict
St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis De Sales
5338. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and
suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
5339. Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will
perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
St. Teresa of Avila
5340. Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony
of the universe.
St. Thérèse of
Lisieux
5341. If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.
Stan Mikita
5342. Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do
it.
Stan Smith
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5343. If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter
whether you do it well or not- you just need to do it.
5344. One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it
up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I
had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.
5345. Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
Stanley Tucci
Star Jones
Star Wars
5346. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in
which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must
vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan
5347. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in
which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must
vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan
5348. I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my
opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.
Stephen Colbert
5349. My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the
universe, why it as it is and why it exists at all.
5350. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented
individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
5351. It may be that those who do most, dream most.
5352. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you
could make, who would you call and what would you say? And
why are you waiting?
5353. Begin with the end in mind.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen King
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Levine
Stephen R. Covey
5354. Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in
an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry.
When we reach a "critical mass" of integration, we experience
spontaneous combustion - an explosion of inner synergy that
ignites the fire within and gives vision, passion, and a spirit of
adventure to life.
Stephen R. Covey
5355. I am personally convinced that one person can be a change
catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization.
Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It
requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence,
courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
Stephen R. Covey
5356. Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in
their lives. But creative experiences can be produced
regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It
requires enormous personal security and openness and a
spirit of adventure.
Stephen R. Covey
5357. It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper "yes!" burning
inside.
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5358. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen R. Covey
5359. Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and
potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to
make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to
overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher,
more effective ones.
Stephen R. Covey
5360. Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and
potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to
make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to
overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher,
more effective ones.
5361. The best way you can predict your future is to create it.
5362. While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to
choose the consequences of our actions.
5363. Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward
and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes
faith.
5364. Today, the most common form of physical abuse is disuse.
5365. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
5366. Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to
do it well.
Stephen R. Covey
Stephen R. Covey
Stephen R. Covey
Stephen S. Wise
Stephen Seiler
Steve Bartkowski
Steve Brown
5367. A vision without the ability to execute is probably a
hallucination.
Steve Case
5368. If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it
probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there
when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the
parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens, but
it's not a kind of thing where you just sort of sit back and
wait.
Steve Case
5369. Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Steve Droke
5370. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Steve Landesberg
5371. To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine
5372. A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Steve Smith
5373. Failure is the rule rather than the exception, and every failure
contains information. One of the most misleading lessons
imparted by those who have reached their goal is that the
ones who win are the ones who persevere. Not always. If you
keep trying without learning why you failed, you'll probably
fail again and again. Perseverance must be accompanied by
the embrace of failure. Failure is what moves you forward.
Listen to failure.
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5374. The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self
improvement, about being better than you were the day
before.
5375. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you
tried.
5376. Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the
steamroller, you're part of the road.
5377. Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself;
but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not
sure of you.
5378. I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared
to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do,
you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe
that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile in four minutes I
could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life,
but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man
wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up
everything else in life, he could do that.
5379. There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my
dreams.
5380. Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms
of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which
have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of
having done those things.
Steve Young
Steven Wright
Stewart Brand
Stewart E. White
Stirling Moss
Stoddard King, Jr.
Story Musgrave
5381. We don't have anything as urgent as mañana in Ireland.
Stuart Banks
5382. If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change
upon you.
Stuart Wilde
5383. To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the
urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go
along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course,
the momentum dies.
Sue Atchley Ebaugh
5384. Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
Sue Ebaugh
5385. Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's
important and what's not.
Sue Grafton
5386. Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical
aspect of it.
5387. No one can give you wisdom. You must discover it for
yourself, on the journey through life, which no one can take
for you.
Summer Sanders
Sun Bear
5388. Opportunities increase as they are taken.
Sun Tzu
5389. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
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5390. The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in
his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses
makes but few calculations beforehand.
5391. Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in
life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the
graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The
real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door
of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff
around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured
by these.
5392. We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the
time we are here.
5393. This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to
do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in
life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest
and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own
life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make
your life happy.
5394. I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but
rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
5395. The only interesting answers are those that destroy the
questions.
Sun Tzu
Susan B. Anthony
Susan L. Taylor
Susan Polis Schutz
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
5396. When your physical environment is in alignment with your
aspiration, success becomes the norm.
Susan St Lawrence
5397. If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world
of new questions.
Susanne K. Langer
5398. Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its
height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without
hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down,
As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed
mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.
5399. Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I
understand it.
5400. If anything, the purpose of life is to solve problems. If you
don't have your own, solve other people's problems.
5401. When you become cognisant of why you behave the way you
behave, then only can you manifest lasting change.
5402. Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.
5403. Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same
time; what we really want is for things to remain the same
but get better.
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Sven Lidman
Swami
Sachchidanada
Swami Sai
Premananda
Swami Vivekananda
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5404. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into
windows.
5405. To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all
areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think
healthy, wealthy, and happy and successful thoughts twentyfour hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful
and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot
coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds
us all.
5406. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at
a time.
Sydney J. Harris
Sydney Madwed
Sydney Smiles
5407. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you
can do only a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith
5408. To do anything in the world worth doing, we must jump in
and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith
5409. I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to
wake up and get going, rather than retreat.
5410. Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvia Porter
5411. Every one excels in something in which another fails.
Syrus
5412. It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Syrus
5413. Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Syrus
5414. All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night
in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to
find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are
dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open
eyes, and make them come true.
T. E. Lawrence
5415. There could be no honour in a sure success, but much might
be wrested from a sure defeat.
T. E. Lawrence
5416. If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon
life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
5417. Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far
one can go.
5418. Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we
have made of things.
5419. To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to
contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's
life.
5420. I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more
mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning
itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.
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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
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5421. If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes,
only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
5422. He who knows others is wise, He who knows himself is
enlightened.
Tao Te Ching
5423. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true
wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is
true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly
rich.
Tao Te Ching
5424. The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that
must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom
5425. We must expect to fail, but fail in a learning posture,
determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the
benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted W. Engstrom
5426. A man has to have goals, for a day, for a lifetime, that was
mine, to have people say, "there goes Ted Williams, the
greatest hitter who ever lived. "
Ted Williams
5427. Fortune favors the brave.
Terence
5428. Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be accomplished by
diligence.
Terence
5429. Be gentle to all and stern to yourself.
5430. When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater
than a challenge.
5431. Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far
that road and the way is lost.
5432. What happens is not as important as how you react to what
happens.
5433. Hope — it is the quintessential human delusion,
simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your
greatest weakness.
5434. Seek and ye shall find.
Teresa of Avila
Terry Bradshaw
Terry Brooks
Thaddeus Golas
The Architect
The Bible
5435. Relinquishing control is the ultimate challenge of the Spiritual
Warrior.
The Book of Runes
5436. No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
The Doors
5437. So often in time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and
we never even know we have the key.
The Eagles
5438. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
5439. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
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5440. Many candles can be kindled from one candle without
diminishing it.
5441. Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and
date the prom queen.
5442. I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of
talking.
5443. What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor: that is the
whole Torah; all the rest of it is commentary.
5444. Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
5445. Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks,
that he becomes.
5446. Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition
of this is the beginning of wisdom.
5447. I learn by going where I have to go.
The Midrash
The Rock
The Scarecrow,
Wizard of Oz
The Talmud
The Talmud
The Upanishads
Theodore Isaac
Rubin
Theodore Roethke
5448. Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
5449. Do what you can where you are with what you’ve got.
Theodore Roosevelt
5450. Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
5451. Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to
become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
5452. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great
actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
5453. I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
5454. I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.
Theodore Roosevelt
5455. In a moment of decision, the best thing to do is the right
thing to do. The worst thing to do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
5456. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the
right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the
worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
5457. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to
succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
5458. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to
succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
5459. Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted
only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must
not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt
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5460. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because
there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows
the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in
a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails
while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or
defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
5461. The most important single ingredient in the formula of
success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
5462. We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with
a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of
strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness,
striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out
than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt
5463. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em,
'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
5464. With self-discipline most anything is possible.
5465. People try nonviolence for a week, and when it ‘doesn’t work,’
they go back to violence, which hasn’t worked for centuries.
5466. Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is
gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to
ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with
life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roszak
Thich Nhat Hanh
5467. There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash
them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in
order to wash the dishes.
Thich Nhat Hanh
5468. When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't
blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It
may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never
blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or
our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to
take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce.
Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to
persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience.
If you understand, and you show that you understand, you
can love, and the situation will change.
Thich Nhat Hanh
5469. All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that
make for peace.
5470. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all
costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of
having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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5471. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
5472. Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know
what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire;
and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Aquinas
5473. A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle
5474. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle
5475. Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
5476. Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
5477. Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
5478. No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the
biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
5479. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the
distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
5480. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,
but to do what lies clearly at hand.
5481. Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all
obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this,
that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
5482. The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be
preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of
making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.
5483. The great law of culture is to let each become all that he was
created capable of being; expand, if possible to his full
growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign,
especially noxious adhesions, and show himself in his own
shape and stature, be those what they may.
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
5484. The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Thomas Carlyle
5485. Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
Thomas Edison
5486. Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent
perspiration.
5487. Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with
planning.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
5488. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt
discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison
5489. I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found
10,000 ways that will not work.
Thomas Edison
5490. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do
doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas Edison
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5491. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
5492. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
5493. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison
5494. Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first
necessities of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man
and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison
5495. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a
total failure.
Thomas Edison
5496. The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest
his patients in the care of human frame, and in the cause and
prevention of disease.
Thomas Edison
5497. The first requisite to your success is the ability to apply your
physical and mental enerigies to one problem incessantly
without growing weary.
Thomas Edison
5498. There's a way to do it better, find it.
Thomas Edison
5499. Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his
so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will
never stand in favor compared with the products of nature,
the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the
sun, the mother of all Life.
Thomas Edison
5500. We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Edison
5501. When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go
ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas Edison
5502. A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller
5503. All doors open to courtesy.
Thomas Fuller
5504. All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
5505. An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything
and in this lies the great distinction between great men and
little men.
Thomas Fuller
5506. Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
5507. If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
5508. Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Thomas Fuller
5509. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Thomas Fuller
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5510. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up
every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to
whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
5511. The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
5512. There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures
early in life.
Thomas H. Huxley
Thomas H. Huxley
Thomas H. Huxley
5513. Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and selfrespect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or
lady.
Thomas H. Huxley
5514. Try to learn something about everything and everything about
something.
Thomas H. Huxley
5515. Knowledge is power.
Thomas Hobbes
5516. Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose
your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind
and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of
conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand
up and be counted at any cost.
5517. The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
5518. Would you like me to give you a formula for, success? It's
quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure, you're
thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all,
you can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So
go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because,
remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
Thomas J. Watson
Thomas J. Watson
Thomas J. Watson
5519. A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against
every government, and what no just government should
refuse, or rest on inference.s
Thomas Jefferson
5520. A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of
spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
5521. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one
percent of the people may take away the rights of the other
forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
5522. A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to
regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and
shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has
earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
5523. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
5524. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
conscience to remain silent.
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5525. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though
the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be
rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their
equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate
would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
5526. Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson
5527. Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson
5528. An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is
a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest
confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson
5529. An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson
5530. An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
Thomas Jefferson
5531. As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now
let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson
5532. Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing
armies.
5533. Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
5534. Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human
contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
5535. Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson
5536. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the
germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of
ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
5537. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to
complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is
wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
5538. Determine never to be idle… It is wonderful how much may
be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
5539. Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several
sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Thomas Jefferson
5540. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no
hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
5541. Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will
delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
5542. Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to
do.
Thomas Jefferson
5543. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...They are
the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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5544. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions
of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of
day.
5545. Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to
combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
5546. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
5547. Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson
5548. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of
the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe
depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
5549. Experience demands that man is the only animal which
devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the
general prey of the rich on the poor.
5550. He who knows best knows how little he knows.
5551. He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose
mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
5552. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
5553. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never
happened.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
5554. I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good
to another.
Thomas Jefferson
5555. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
5556. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our
country.
5557. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the
past.
5558. I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My
hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the
forebodings of the gloomy.
5559. If God is just, I tremble for my country.
5560. I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the
more I have of it.
5561. Information is the currency of democracy.
5562. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always
doing.
5563. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
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5564. Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
5565. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from
achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with
the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
5566. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as
to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
5567. One man with courage is a majority.
5568. The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than
money.
5569. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
5570. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the
man who reads nothing but newspapers.
5571. The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in
every object only the tracts which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
5572. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous
sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
5573. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain Unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,
and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
5574. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry,
count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
5575. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and
hang on.
5576. Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were
watching.
5577. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts
what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility;
for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Kempis
5578. The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.
Thomas Kempis
5579. My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really
understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night
where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and
protection of Him who guides me.
Thomas Merton
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5580. Push on, keep moving.
Thomas Merton
5581. The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton
5582. When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see
the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of
junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment
when they are really children, when we know love in our own
hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an
old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash at such
times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the
"newness", the emptiness and the purity of vision that make
themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic
dance.
Thomas Merton
5583. You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings
with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently
as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the
loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to
fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly
understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is
always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are
always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for
the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and
absurd.
Thomas Merton
5584. The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees,
realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Thomas Moore
5585. My country is the world, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
5586. That which we achieve too easily, we esteem too lightly
Thomas Paine
5587. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
5588. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What
we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness
only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
5589. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine
5590. It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith
is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful,
but work and desire are invincible.
5591. It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith
is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
5592. Choose your love, Love your choice.
5593. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has
one good reason for letting it alone.
5594. People often say that this or that person has not yet found
himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is
something one creates.
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Thomas Robert
Gaines
Thomas S. Monson
Thomas Scott
Thomas Szasz
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5595. If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses
only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it,
he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few
men ever know
5596. Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who
does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose
is the eternal condition of success.
5597. A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes
that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
Thomas Wolfe
Thornton T. Munger
Thurgood Marshall
5598. You can always become better.
Tiger Woods
5599. Every man dies. Not every man lives.
Tim Robbins
5600. Yes, risk taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise, it would
be called sure-thing taking.
5601. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of
changing himself.
Timothy McMahon
Tolstoy
5602. Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on
the goal.
Tom Bradley
5603. The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is
you.
Tom Bradley
5604. He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he
who never asks a question remains a fool forever.
Tom Connelly
5605. Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the
process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons
and move on.
Tom Greening
5606. If you don't ask "why this?" often enough, somebody will ask
"why you?"
Tom Hirshfield
5607. I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the
number of times I succeed; and the number of times I
succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can
fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins
5608. Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
Tom Hopkins
5609. If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
Tom Landry
5610. Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some
works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others
quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the
doing something else.
Tom Peters
5611. Obsession does not guarantee success. But, on the other
hand, a lack of obsession does guarantee failure.
Tom Peters
5612. Underpromise; overdeliver.
Tom Peters
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5613. When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody
to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a
relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our
partners and take up with somebody more promising. This
can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that
while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we,
each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody
else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to
delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual
failure every relationship we enter.
5614. Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
5615. We know about as much about software quality problems as
they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen
the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't
know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one
disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into
our water supply.
5616. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in
a person's determination.
5617. Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad
for you!
Tom Robbins
Tom Stoppard
Tom Van Vleck
Tommy Lasorda
Tommy Smothers
5618. The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the
only reality.
Toni Cade Bambara
5619. The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Toni Cade Bambara
5620. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison
5621. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm
wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Tony Bennett
5622. Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Tony Buzan
5623. To succeed you need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
5624. A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a
new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins
5625. Commit to CAN! Constant And Never-ending Improvement
Tony Robbins
5626. Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our
lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and
move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue
goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving
goals by themselves will never make us happy In the long
term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles
necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the
deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
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5627. How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow
I'm committed to?
5628. I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of
commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for
those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act
until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains,
but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this
may sound, it is still the common denominator separating
those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins
5629. I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge
you to join the ranks of those people who live what they
teach, who walk their talk.
Tony Robbins
5630. I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what
they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would
never have to worry.
Tony Robbins
5631. If I can imagine it, I can achieve it.
Tony Robbins
5632. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've
always gotten.
Tony Robbins
5633. If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved
the results you want and copy what they do and you'll
achieve the same results.
Tony Robbins
5634. In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take
control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a
while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins
5635. In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Tony Robbins
5636. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Tony Robbins
5637. It is not what we get. But who we become, what we
contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Tony Robbins
5638. It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Tony Robbins
5639. It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs
as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins
5640. It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make
the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
Tony Robbins
5641. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration
were actually laying the foundation for the understandings
that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony Robbins
5642. Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and
responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
5643. Live with passion!
Tony Robbins
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5644. Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can
immediately command when we focus all of our resources on
mastering a single area of our lives.
5645. My definition of success is to live your life in a way that
causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and
because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a
lot more pleasure than they do pain.
5646. Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true
it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish
in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a
decade!
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins
5647. One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that
we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power.
Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to
master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins
5648. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless
contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
5649. Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins
5650. People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals, that is,
goals that do not inspire them.
Tony Robbins
5651. Personal power is the ability to take action.
Tony Robbins
5652. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask
better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Tony Robbins
5653. Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that
you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't
truly decided.
Tony Robbins
5654. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the
visible.
Tony Robbins
5655. Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the
fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get
something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to
make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship
will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go
to give, and not a place that you go to take.
Tony Robbins
5656. Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your
approach.
Tony Robbins
5657. Success comes from taking the initiative and following up...
persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love.
What simple action could you take today to produce a new
momentum toward success in your life?
Tony Robbins
5658. Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Tony Robbins
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5659. The only limit to your impact is your imagination and
commitment.
Tony Robbins
5660. The past does not equal the future.
Tony Robbins
5661. The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tony Robbins
5662. The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
Tony Robbins
5663. The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure
instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that,
you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Tony Robbins
5664. The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies,
and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose.
By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will
instantly change our behaviors.
Tony Robbins
5665. The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't
accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're
absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take
massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4)
You continue to change your approach until you achieve what
you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.
Tony Robbins
5666. The way we communicate with others and with ourselves
ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Tony Robbins
5667. There is always a way if I am committed.
Tony Robbins
5668. There is no such thing as failure, only results.
Tony Robbins
5669. There's always a way - if you're committed.
Tony Robbins
5670. There's no abiding success without commitment.
Tony Robbins
5671. To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all
different in the way we perceive the world and use this
understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Tony Robbins
5672. We are all here to contribute something unique. Deep within
each of us lies a special gift.
Tony Robbins
5673. We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich
internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us,
but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will
determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act
in the future.
Tony Robbins
5674. We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly
what we wish.
Tony Robbins
5675. We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are,
whether that view is accurate or not.
Tony Robbins
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5676. What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or
impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is
more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Tony Robbins
5677. Whatever happens, take responsibility.
Tony Robbins
5678. Whatever you focus on is what you get.
Tony Robbins
5679. When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Tony Robbins
5680. Who I am is much bigger than anything that could ever
happen to me.
Tony Robbins
5681. You always succeed in producing a result.
Tony Robbins
5682. You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make
the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your
past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are
now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you
now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision
consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
Tony Robbins
5683. You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few
people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough!
You must take action.
5684. You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of
our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we
interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll
become tomorrow.
5685. To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
5686. Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are
what we live for.
5687. When the goal is in sight, all your physical pain disappears,
and your mental determination shall carry you the rest of the
way.
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins
Tracy Austin
Travis White
Trey Patty
5688. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
5689. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards
5690. People never improve unless they look to some standard or
example higher or better than themselves.
Tryon Edwards
5691. Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action;
action form habits; habits decide character; and character
fixes our destiny.
5692. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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Tupac Shakur
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5693. If you see a whole thing it seems it's always beautiful.
Planets, lives, But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And
day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the
pattern.
Ursula K. LeGuin
5694. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the
journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Leguin
5695. We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It
robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to
the mediocre.
5696. We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what
we are.
5697. Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk
of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at
himself does not.
Uta Hagen
V. S. Pritchett
Vaclav Havel
5698. As soon as man began considering himself the source of the
highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything,
the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began
to lose control of it.
Vaclav Havel
5699. Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by
disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
Vaclav Havel
5700. Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate
and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over
time, gain in political significance.
Vaclav Havel
5701. Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either
have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that
surrounds you.
Vaclav Havel
5702. Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep
and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are
going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are
obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work
for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
5703. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not
the conviction that something will turn out well, but the
certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it
turns out.
Vaclav Havel
5704. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well,
but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of
how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel
5705. I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of
shaking the entire structure of government, where words can
prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel
5706. I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
Vaclav Havel
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5707. If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little
peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
5708. Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to
new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that
nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in
life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel
5709. Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the
universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly
structured and to struggle against entropy.
Vaclav Havel
5710. Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel
5711. Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to
the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is
obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply
avoid it.
Vaclav Havel
5712. None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the
spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that
population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of
events.
Vaclav Havel
5713. Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of
the meaning of life.
Vaclav Havel
5714. The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most
deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that
suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel
5715. The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in
other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is
sought.
Vaclav Havel
5716. The exercise of power is determined by thousands of
interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the
powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never
divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself
in both.
Vaclav Havel
5717. The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in
the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human
meekness and human responsibility.
Vaclav Havel
5718. The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less
about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less
and less.
5719. There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our
misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the
bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
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5720. There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the
winning side.
Vaclav Havel
5721. When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not
complete.
Vaclav Havel
5722. Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there
can be no free and independent nations. Without internal
peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens
and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Vaclav Havel
5723. Work for something because it is good, not just because it
stands a chance to succeed.
5724. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough
to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
5725. They can conquer who believe they can.
5726. We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
5727. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterwards.
5728. We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of
trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Vaclav Havel
Vance Havner
Vergil
Vernon Howard
Vernon Law
Victor Daniels
5729. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is
a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
Victor Hugo
5730. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose
time has come.
Victor Hugo
5731. Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs
too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings,
knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
5732. He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and
follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him
through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is
laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the
chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
5733. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
5734. No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time
has come.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
5735. People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo
5736. Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see
in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished?
The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths,
small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all
sides by the dark forces that surround it; nevertheless, no
more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
Victor Hugo
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5737. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved.
Victor Hugo
5738. There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today,
flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo
5739. There is one thing stronger than all the world, and that is an
idea whose time has come.
5740. To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
5741. What is to give light must endure burning.
5742. Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with
its own corrections.
5743. Allow yourself to be inspired. Allow yourself to succeed. Dare
to excel.
5744. Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard
work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Viktor Frankl
Vilfredo Pareto
Vince Dente
Vince Lombardi
5745. I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest
fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he
has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted
on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi
5746. If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with
enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
5747. If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
5748. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
Vince Lombardi
5749. It is not whether you get knocked down. It is whether you get
up again.
Vince Lombardi
5750. It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when
you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to
have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi
5751. Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard
effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve
any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
5752. The difference between a successful person and others is not
a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a
lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
5753. We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of
them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi
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5754. It's not how much you do, it's how often you do it. It simply
doesn't matter if you make some monumental effort at any
given time. You have it in your to give that extra little bit. You
know that you could add that finishing touch. You know you
can take that extra step.
5755. Great things are done by a series of small things brought
together.
Vince Poscente
Vincent Van Gogh
5756. Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small
things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
5757. If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by
all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
5758. Looking to the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I
dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on
a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the
sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?
Vincent Van Gogh
5759. The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm
terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient
reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
5760. Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may
happen, we master fortune by accepting it.
Virgil
5761. They can because they think they can.
Virgil
5762. We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for
maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
5763. I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve.
I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.
Virginia Wade
5764. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
5765. No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire
5766. Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one
elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits
oneself, then Providence moves, too.
5767. The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and
motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas
and dreams.
W . H. Murray
W. Arthur Porter
5768. If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Then quit. No
sense being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
5769. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
5770. All I want to do is change the world.
W. Clement Stone
5771. Events tend to recur in cycles.
W. Clement Stone
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5772. I think there is something, more important than believing!
The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will
move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize
their vision.
W. Clement Stone
5773. I think there is something, more important than believing!
The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will
move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize
their vision.
W. Clement Stone
5774. No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never
be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with
gusto.
W. Clement Stone
5775. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone
5776. To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know
all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of
the problem or the goal you want to reach.
W. Clement Stone
5777. You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on
your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.
W. Clement Stone
5778. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.
5779. 1. Create constancy of purpose. 2. Adopt the new philosophy.
3. Cease dependence on mass inspection to achieve quality.
4. Minimize total cost, not initial price of supplies. 5. Improve
constantly the system of production and service. 6. Institute
training on the job. 7. Institute leadership. 8. Drive out fear.
9. Break down barriers between departments. 10. Eliminate
slogans, exhortations, and numerical targets. 11. Eliminate
work standards (quotas) and management by objective. 12.
Remove barriers that rob workers, engineers, and managers
of their right to pride of workmanship. 13. Institute a vigorous
program of education and self-improvement. 14. Put
everyone in the company to work to accomplish the
transformation.
5780. It is not enough to do your best: you must know what to do,
and THEN do your best.
5781. It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do,
and THEN do your best.
5782. It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
5783. In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their
local environment or try to change it by political means; only
the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his
fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on
and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal
reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.
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5784. It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose,
a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that
organ.
5785. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is
not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
5786. Money never starts an idea: it is the idea that starts the
money.
W. H. Auden
W. J. Bryant
W. J. Cameron
5787. The first key to success is deciding exactly what it is you want
in life.
W. L. Hunt
5788. Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could
do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things
that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine
thousand I still had left.
W. Mitchell
5789. It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that
makes the difference.
W. Mitchell
5790. Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
W. S. Gilbert
5791. If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this
forever. Is that good news?
W. Somerset
Maugham
W. Somerset
Maugham
5792. Impropriety is the soul of wit.
5793. It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the
very best, you will very often get it.
5794. The common idea that success spoils people by making them
vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the
contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant
and kind.
5795. Men do not succeed in business or in life, no matter how
intelligent they may be, no matter how sharply their aptitudes
are defined, no matter how brilliantly they may be educated
unless they are oriented toward the proper goals and have
the drive or motivating force to succeed. One has to want
something mighty hard and keep on wanting things all his
life,
5796. She saw objectives, not obstacles.
W. Somerset
Maugham
W. Somerset
Maugham
Wallace H. Wulfeck
Wallace Stegner
5797. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to
pursue them.
Walt Disney
5798. Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until
it's done, and done right.
Walt Disney
5799. If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.
Walt Disney
5800. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this
whole thing was started by a mouse.
Walt Disney
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5801. It's kind of fun to do the impossible!
Walt Disney
5802. Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't
be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams
come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be
summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence,
courage, and constancy.
Walt Disney
5803. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
5804. You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful
place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a
reality.
Walt Disney
5805. Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will
fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
5806. True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be
a plot written by someone who wants to see how much
adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real
world, to real life; it is an active effort
Walter Anderson
5807. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a
new idea.
Walter Bagehot
5808. The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do.
Walter Bagehot
5809. Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
5810. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks
he can.
5811. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one
after another.
5812. It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how
little most men will do when they don't have to.
5813. I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all
whenever he was on the field.
5814. If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to
win.
5815. Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Brunell
Walter D. Wintle
Walter Elliott
Walter Linn
Walter Payton
Walter Reuther
Walter Winchell
5816. Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of
the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original
insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren Bennis
5817. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
5818. You need people who can walk their companies into the future
rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
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5819. Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they
are too heavy to carry.
Warren Buffet
5820. Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man
succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
Warren G. Harding
5821. A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of
one part of his body - the wishbone.
5822. Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
5823. Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great
minds rise above them.
5824. There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad
to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach,
that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be
bruised in a new place.
5825. There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad
to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it
is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a
new place.
5826. Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable
and marketable form.
5827. Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a
competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
Watts Humprey
Wayne Calloway
5828. Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we
tune into.
Wayne Dyer
5829. As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically
experience another person, you can only experience them in
your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are
simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but
thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about
the other people of your life. Your experience of all those
people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers
come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact
behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your
relationship to them when they behave offensively is not
determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how
you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs,
you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only
process them in your mind.
Wayne Dyer
5830. Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the
invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a
purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
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5831. I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no
grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a
few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not
deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because
I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not
deficient.
Wayne Dyer
5832. It's never crowded along the extra mile.
Wayne Dyer
5833. Only the insecure strive for security.
Wayne Dyer
5834. There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what
you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
5835. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define
yourself.
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer
5836. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
Wayne Gretzky
5837. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
5838. Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the
desire to prepare.
5839. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to
get a living.
Wayne Short
Wendell Phillips
5840. Most people stop short of taking action; they spend more
time thinking about what they need to do and analysing it all.
This wastes so much time and energy. Time and energy that
could be put to better use by taking action.
Wendy Hearn
5841. If you ever think you're too small to be effective, you've
never been in bed with a mosquito!
Wendy Lesko
5842. Create your future from your future not your past.
5843. Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.
5844. When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no
longer exists for you, then go forward in courage.
Werner Erhard
Wess Roberts
White Eagle
5845. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
5846. Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing
to say.
Will Durant
5847. America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for
getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it
gets there.
5848. Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
5849. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you
just sit there.
5850. I never met a man I didn’t like.
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5851. Right action is the key to good living. Twelve Steps and Even
if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there.
5852. The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the
popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one
that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't
make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers
Will Rogers
5853. The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking
spaces.
Will Rogers
5854. The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get
elected.
Will Rogers
5855. Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
Will Rogers
5856. Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy
things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Will Rogers
5857. Joy comes from using your potential.
Will Schultz
5858. Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify
what is already there.
Will Smith
5859. Adversity causes some men to break; others to break
records.
William A. Ward
5860. Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you
spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you
criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William A. Ward
5861. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward
5862. Faith is a continuation of reason.
William Adams
5863. Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I
may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
William Arthur
5864. 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
5865. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it,
you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
5866. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it,
you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
5867. Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you can;
enrich and inspire all you can.
William Arthur Ward
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5868. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
5869. We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before
we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must
prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can
lead.
William Arthur Ward
5870. He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
5871. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
5872. What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
5873. The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his
surrender.
5874. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
5875. The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for
fear is direct action.
William Booth
William Brighty
Rands
William Burnham
5876. Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
5877. Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor
that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
5878. Every human being is intended to have a character of his
own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.
William Channing
5879. It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
William Clinton
5880. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything.
William Connor
Magee
5881. Weep not that the world changes; did it keep a stable,
changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
5882. Change starts when someone sees the next step.
William Cullen
Bryant
William Drayton
5883. It is the duty of the government to make it difficult for people
to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E.
Gladstone
5884. No man ever became great or good except through many and
great mistakes.
William E.
Gladstone
5885. You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want
to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have
in mind, not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and
sweeping act of achievement, but you can do it gradually, day
by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to
do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.
5886. I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
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5887. All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but
confront them.
William F. Halsey
5888. There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary
men are forced by circumstances to meet.
William F. Halsey
5889. A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from
the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
5890. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us
on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
5891. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
5892. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
5893. Others have done it before me. I can, too.
5894. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream
in the seeking of it.
5895. Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until
all factors are favourable do nothing.
5896. Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why,
when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually
done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
5897. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after
others have let go.
5898. Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
5899. Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power
for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of
his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man
really is, not what he pretends to be.
5900. Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be
used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
5901. Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the
moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but
do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
5902. No plan is worth the paper it is printed on unless it starts you
doing something.
5903. Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched
but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low
as that.
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Feather
William Feather
William Feather
William Gaddis
William George
Jordan
William Godwin
William Graham
Sumner
William H. Danforth
William Hazlitt
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5904. If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to
victory.
William Hazlitt
5905. One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some
glaring defect.
William Hazlitt
5906. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two
greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength
of mind.
William Hazlitt
5907. You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the
conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt
5908. To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather
than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be
worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to
stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study
hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await
occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common-this is my symphony.
William Henry
Channing
5909. If we taught children to speak, they’d never learn.
William Hull
5910. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
5911. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your
belief will help create the fact.
William James
5912. Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
5913. If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will
change a past or future event, then you are residing on
another planet with a different reality system.
William James
5914. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain
it.
William James
5915. Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally,
in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make
very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their
soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his
whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and
moving only his little finger.
William James
5916. Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the
inner voice which says, This is the real me, and when you
have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
5917. The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that
human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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347
5918. The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years,
that minute he begins to be old.
William James
5919. To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it
flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions, no excuses.
William James
5920. Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are
trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the
storms, if you only let them.
William James
5921. Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not
something to wish for, but to attain.
5922. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
5923. When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly
balanced courses of action you should take - choose the
bolder.
5924. Do well, do better, do best.
William Joseph Slim
William Langland
William Lloyd
George
5925. He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
5926. Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation
which he should do even if he did not need the money.
5927. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next
best.
5928. A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
5929. Will is character in action.
William Lyon Phelps
William M.
Thackeray
William Makepeace
Thackeray
William McDougall
5930. Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
5931. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
useful, or believe to be beautiful.
5932. What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which
there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor
master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick
brain workers nor heart-sick hand workers, in a word, in
which all men would be living in equality of condition, and
would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full
consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all the
realization at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth.
5933. It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
5934. The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom
to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue questions and
answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is
the essence of academic freedom.
5935. Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond
reason, for that shows more of desire than judgement
William Jennings
Bryan
William Jennings
Bryan
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William McFee
William Morris
William Morris
William of Occam
William Orville
Douglas
William Penn
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348
5936. Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
5937. Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of
success is to think that what you did yesterday will be
sufficient for tomorrow.
5938. The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
5939. Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for
us, and then go after that?
5940. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom
through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you
know.
5941. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows
himself to be a fool.
5942. Action is eloquence.
5943. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely
players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one
man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
5944. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some
achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon
them.
5945. Boldness be my friend.
5946. Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own
conduct.
5947. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good
deed in a naughty world.
5948. It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
5949. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
5950. Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
5951. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without
thoughts never to heaven go.
5952. Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
5953. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
5954. They do not love that do not show their love.
5955. This above all; to thine own self be true.
5956. 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them
after.
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William Penn
William Pollard
William Randolph
William Ross
William Saroyan
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
349
5957. To be, or not to be: that is the question.
5958. To Climb Steep Hills requires slow pace at first.
5959. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's
the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
5960. To do a great right do a little wrong.
5961. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the
day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
5962. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
5963. Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man
who hath any honesty in him.
5964. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
5965. Use every man after his desert, and who should scape
whipping?
5966. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
5967. Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
5968. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is
rounded with a sleep.
5969. We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
5970. We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since
things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not
anything which returns to nothing, but all things return
dissolved into their elements.
5971. We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
5972. What's done can't be undone.
5973. Why, then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will
open.
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
5974. The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of
a dream.
William
Shakespheare
5975. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built
for.
William Shedd
5976. The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything
and it works.
William Strong
5977. Every failure is a step to success,
William Whewell
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March 21, 2009
350
5978. Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle,
this way or that, 'Tis done - And in the after-vacancy, We
wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
5979. To character and success, two things, contradictory as they
may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly
independence: humble dependence on God, and manly
reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
5980. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind
the stronger the trees.
Williard Marriott
5981. Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision
is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.
Willie Stone
5982. Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for
a star.
Willis Reed
5983. Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them
on your way down.
5984. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
5985. Vision is the world’s most desperate need. There are no
hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.
5986. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change
the subject.
5987. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change
the subject.
5988. A man does what he must - in spite of personal
consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and
pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
Winifred Newman
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
5989. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
5990. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
5991. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to
unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
5992. I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
5993. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
5994. I like things to happen; and if they don't happen, I like to
make them happen.
Winston Churchill
5995. I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill
5996. If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
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351
5997. If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle
or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come
back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous
whack.
Winston Churchill
5998. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
quotations.
Winston Churchill
5999. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the
chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
6000. Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle
of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill
6001. Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be
modest about.
Winston Churchill
6002. Never, never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
6003. No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill
6004. Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be
responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
6005. Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only
killed once.
Winston Churchill
6006. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss
of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
6007. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without
losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
6008. Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
Winston Churchill
6009. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
6010. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
6011. You can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
6012. The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
6013. Win or lose, playing at all is winning.
Withrop Aldrich
Wolfgang Nording
6014. I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than
succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson
6015. I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than
win in a cause that will some day lose.
Woodrow Wilson
6016. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
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March 21, 2009
352
6017. The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the
men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets
its translation into the crude language of deeds.
6018. We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They
see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of
a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams
die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through
bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which
comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams
will come true.
6019. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to
enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and
with finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to
enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this
errand.
6020. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
6021. If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not
doing anything very innovative.
6022. More than any other time in history, mankind faces a
crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.
The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom
to choose correctly.
6023. If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're
dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any
growth or future, you might as well be dead.
6024. Only by great risks can great results be achieved.
6025. There is no power greater than right action in the present
moment.
6026. Do or do not. There is no try.
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Wynn Bullock
Xerxes
Yaga Vasistha
Yoda
6027. A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
6028. All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
Yogi Berra
6029. Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't
come to yours.
Yogi Berra
6030. Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is
physical.
Yogi Berra
6031. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Yogi Berra
6032. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was
broken.
Yogi Berra
6033. Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra
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353
6034. Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra
6035. He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
Yogi Berra
6036. How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
6037. I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra
6038. I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra
6039. I made a wrong mistake.
Yogi Berra
6040. I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the
bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it
isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at
myself?
6041. I never said most of the things I said.
6042. I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the
house.
6043. I want to thank you for making this day necessary.
6044. I wish everybody had the drive he had. He never did anything
wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball,
everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off
the field.
6045. I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering
that question.
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
6046. If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's
gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra
6047. If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Yogi Berra
6048. If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra
6049. If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Yogi Berra
6050. If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
6051. If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up
someplace else.
Yogi Berra
6052. I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I
want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
6053. I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk
to school like I did.
6054. In baseball, you don't know nothing.
6055. In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
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Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
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6056. It ain't over till it's over.
Yogi Berra
6057. It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
Yogi Berra
6058. It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra
6059. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was
talking too much.
Yogi Berra
6060. It's like deja-vu, all over again.
Yogi Berra
6061. It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
Yogi Berra
6062. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps
the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra
6063. Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Yogi Berra
6064. Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting.
Yogi Berra
6065. So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Yogi Berra
6066. The future isn't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
6067. The only color I don't have is navy brown.
Yogi Berra
6068. The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
Yogi Berra
6069. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my
suitcase.
Yogi Berra
6070. There are some people who, if they don't already know, you
can't tell 'em.
Yogi Berra
6071. We have deep depth.
Yogi Berra
6072. We made too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra
6073. When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
6074. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry
enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
6075. You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
6076. You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that
isn't enough in the second half, you give what's left.
Yogi Berra
6077. You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're
going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
6078. You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise,
they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
6079. You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Yogi Berra
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6080. You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're
going, because you might not get there.
6081. At the peak of tremendous and victorious effort, while the
blood is pounding in your head, all suddenly comes quiet
within you. Everything seems clearer and whiter than ever
before, as if great spotlights had been turned on. At that
moment, you have the conviction that you contain all the
power in the world, that you are capable of everything, that
you have wings. There is no more precise moment in life than
this, the white moment, and you will work hard for years, just
to taste it again.
6082. Dreams are an index to a person’s greatness.
6083. We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of
American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play
the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect
complexion.
Yogi Berra
Yuri Vlason
Zadok Rabinowitz
Zelda Fitzgerald
6084. Of the forces which are imperceptible forces, none is greater
than that of change ... all things are ever in the state of
change ... therefore the I of the past is no longer the I of
today.
Zhuangzi
6085. A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar
6086. Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no
hurry, no desire, no trust.
Zig Ziglar
6087. Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to
fulfill.
6088. It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines
your altitude.
6089. It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that
moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow
through.
6090. It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a
difference.
Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar
6091. It's your attitude, not just your aptitude that determines your
ultimate altitude.
Zig Ziglar
6092. Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.
Zig Ziglar
6093. People with goals succeed because they know where they are
going... It's as simple as that.
Zig Ziglar
6094. Remember, what you get by reaching your destination isn't
nearly as important as what you become by reaching your
goals - what you will become is the winner you were born to
be!.
Zig Ziglar
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6095. Success is dependent upon the glands, sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar
6096. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you
have.
Zig Ziglar
6097. The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share
our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
Zig Ziglar
6098. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as
what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar
6099. When you do the things you have to do when you have to do
them, the day will come when you can do the things you want
to do when you want to do them.
Zig Ziglar
6100. Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Zig Ziglar
6101. You are what you are and where you are because of what has
gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where
you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
6102. You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a
target you do not have.
Zig Ziglar
6103. You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for
success.
Zig Ziglar
6104. You gotta have goals!
Zig Ziglar
6105. You have to ''be'' before you can ''do,'' and do before you can
''have.''
Zig Ziglar
6106. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can
rejoice because thorns have roses.
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Ziggy

How to Be the Change

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