• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. small people always do that, but the really great make you fee that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)
• Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T.S. Eliot)
• If you treat people right, they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Meet people in such a manner that if you die they should weep for you and if you live they should long for you. (Ali Bin Abi Talib---The fourth Caliph of Islam)
• Forgiving is the crown of greatness. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• A man without speech (tongue) is but an idol or a beast. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Speech is like medicine; a small dose of which cures and excess kills the patient. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• The less you say the less you will be criticized. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• The ignorant man is a loser in whatever condition he may be. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Big secrets and big mouths don't go well together.
• Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events & small minds discuss people.
  

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Courage/Pride/Success

• There are only two rules for success :
  1. Never tell everything you know.
  2. See # 1 (unknown)
• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Thomas Edison)
• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is , you can make it. (Gale Sayers)
• Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. (Martine Luther)
• Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow. (James A. Michener)
• Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Unknown)
• You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. (Arlo Guthrie)
• A problem is a chance for you to do your best. (Duke Ellington).
• Success is that old ABC--ability, breaks, and courage. (Maya Angelou)
• If the God be for us, who can be against us. (Publilius Syrus)
• All things are difficult before they are easy. (John Norley)
• Self-conceit poisons the mind. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Coming together is beginning, keeping together is progress & working together is success.
• Success is not your right its Allah's blessing..
• Success is the ladder that you cannot be climbed, with your hand in your pocket.
• The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
• The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

• Saddle Your dreams afore you ride'em. (Mary Webb)
• Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Don't know)
• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.
• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

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Experience

• The bad thing about experience is that it teaches you the stuff you don't want to know. (Unknown)
• Beware of the tongue for it is an arrow that often goes wrong. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
• Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. Bu if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. (Muhammad Ali)

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Knowledge/Education

• A Book hold a house of gold. (Chinese Proverb)
• The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. (Josh Billings)
• Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. (Lucillle Ball)
• This shall be my parting word: Know what you want to do_ then do it. (Ernestine Schumann-Heink)
• Knowledge is a comforting friend in times of loneliness, it is the best companion during travels, and it is the inner friend who speaks to you in your privacy...Mu`aadh ibn Jabal (radhiallahu `anhu)
• Fear of God is the final result of knowledge. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Minds are locked-up stores, only questions open them. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Education is discipline for the adventure of life.
  

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• Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don'ts know how to laugh either. (Golda Meir)
• Life if either a daring adventure, or nothing. (Helen Keller)
• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle: the other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)
• Both tears and sweat are salty, but render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. (Jesse Jackson)
• Do not be too timid squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. (Abraham Lincoln)
• Life is like a melody, only the lyrics are messed up. (Anon)
• Live with your body in this world and with your faith and work for the next. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us. (Quran)
• Simple living and high thinking is the best motto of life.
• When life is challenge except it, when life is a problem solve it, when life is a game play it, But remember life is what you make it.
• Struggle is the meaning of life, defeat or victory is in the hands of Allah but struggle itself is mans duty and should be his joy
  

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Love

• If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. (Anon)
• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up. (James Baldwin)
• The best proof of love is trust. (Joyce Brothers)
• When God favor any of his servants he engages him in His love. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• The love of the world is the root of all troubles. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• There are things you love to hear but you would never hear it from the person whom you would like to hear it from, but don't be deaf to hear it from the person who says it with his heart.
  

Smile

• A modest smile is the best laughter. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• A cheerful face puts out the fire of enmity. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)

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Time

• An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you cant' buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. (Chinese Proverb)
• Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have- so spend it wisely. (Kay Lyons)
• They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol)
• Time is the fire in which we burn. (Benjamin Franklin)
• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Buddha)
• Belief that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. (William James)
• Time is a sword: if you do not cut it, it cuts you. (Imam al-Shafi`i )
• You can always get more money, but you can never get more time.
• One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

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• The object of the superior man is truth. (Confucius)
• You should know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. (Aldous Huxley)
• If you do not keep your ego busy with truth it will keep you busy with falsehood. (Imam al-Shafi`i)
  

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Miscellaneous

• A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. (Anonymous)
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)
• Sin spoils service of God. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Avoiding sin is better than practicing virtue. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. (Gail Godwin)
• The trouble with rat race is that even if you win. You're still a rat. (Lilly Tomlin)
• A government is like a fire: a handy servant, but a dangerous master. (George Washington)
• Humor is a universal language.
• Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours wood. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Trust in God is the best-founded aspiration.
• Small gifts makes friends, great ones make enemies.
• A lost eye is better then lost reputation.
  

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Wisdom

• The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. (William Shakespeare)
• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. (Samuel Taylor)
• Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours wood. (Ali Bin Abi Talib)
• Your face is reflection of your heart.
• Give your decision, never your reasons.

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