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Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you want to see in the world.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

    "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall – think of it, ALWAYS."

"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." -- Indira Gandhi

"Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps."

-David Lloyd George

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself. 
-Conrado I. Generoso

Kahlil Gibran

"Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!"

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to

Goethe

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power, and magic in it

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-Sidney Goff

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." 

-Baltasar Gracian

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. 
-Albert Gray

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill - a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life. 

-Charlotte Gray

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved,  I did not say so. 
-David Grayson

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

-Stephen Grellet

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

-Edward Gibbon

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
-Sacha Guitry

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"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers."

-Walter Hagen

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."

-Harrison's postulate

"In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these."

-Paul Harvey

"When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists." 

-Robert Heinlein

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."

-Heraclitus

"Imagination is our strongest tool--the ability to see ordinary things in new ways."

-Keith Herrmann

"In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness."

-Hesiod

"A swelled head doesn’t always indicate a surplus of brains."

"Enthusiasm is to personality, what steam is to a locomotive – the power that produces action."

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

-Napoleon Hill

Some things have to be believed to be seen

-Ralph Hodgson  

"Repeat anything often enough and it becomes you."

-Tom Hopkins

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. 
-Sidney Howard

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

-Edgar Watson Howe

Elbert Hubbard

"The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game."

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."

- F. M. Hubbard

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."

-Victor Hugo

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

-Aldous Huxley

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. 
-Robert Green Ingersoll

What's important in life is how we treat each other.  

-Hana Ivanhoe

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"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."

-C. D. Jackson

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
-Jesse Jackson

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

-William James

"A true patriot must always be ready to defend his country against it's government."

-Thomas Jefferson

Pain is inevitable but misery is optional. 
-Barbara Johnson

"Don’t spend your life trying to make right decisions; invest your life in making decisions and making them right."

-Charles T. Jones 

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

-Franklin P. Jones

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
-Erica Jong

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

-Joyce Brothers

"History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken."

-James Joyce

There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment.

-Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda)

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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful thorns have roses."

-Alphonse Karr

"Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering."

-John Keats

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also filled with overcoming of it.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking of yesterday all the time."

-Charles F. Kettering

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
-Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Martin Luther King

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We live together as rational human beings or die together as fools."

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence ofjustice.

"You have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

-Rudyard Kipling 

"Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."

-Joe Knapp

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

-Sally Koch

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. 
-Krishnamurti

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"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass."

-Ann Landers

"Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching."

-Fran Lebowitz

"To live is not to learn, but to apply."

-Legouve

When we say "War is over if you want it," we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace. 

-John Lennon

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.
- Sam Levenson

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital

-Aaron Levenstein

C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.”

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet.

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long  we shall have each other. 
-Joshua Loth Liebman

Abraham Lincoln

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you."

-J. M. Linsner

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I will go anywhere provided it is forward."

-David Livingstone

"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thin. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear and with a manly heart."  

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. 
-George Horace Lorimer

"The worth of money is not in its possession, but its use."
- The Miser

"United we stand, divided we fall."
- The Bundle Of Sticks

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"An objective without a plan is a dream."

-Douglas McGregor

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day 

it takes to regain lost ground. 

Often, our actions and assumptions continue long after the reasons for them have passed. It's quite useful to regularly challenge

those assumptions and habits, to ask "why?". 

-Ralph Marston

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. 
-Benjamin Mays

"The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart."

-Mencius

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests. 
-John Stuart Mill

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

-Henry Miller

"Achievement is a habit – cultivate it."

-Harry Mills

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. 
-Moliere

All races need to learn to communicate with each other and a good way to start is with a smile and a blessing. It is important to understand each other's customs so that neither are blamed mistakenly.

-Princess Pale Moon

I quote others only to better express myself. 
-Michel de Montaigne

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. 
-Hannah More

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. 
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. 

Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. 
-Christopher Morley

"Take benefit of five before five:
your youth before your old age,
your health before your sickness,
your wealth before your poverty,
your free-time before you are preoccupied,
and your life before your death"

-Prophet Muhammad

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"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability."

-Flowers A. Newhouse

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
-Howard W. Newton

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

-Jose J. Olmedo 

"If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it."

-William A. Orton

"Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all."

-Ovid

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"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us."

-Thomas Paine

Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.

Find God - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.

-Paramhansa Yogananda

Chance favors the prepared mind. 
-Louis Pasteur

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom. 
"If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time."

-George Patton

"You have a choice everyday… You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy."

-Norman Vincent Peale

"To live a creative life, lose the fear of being wrong."

-Joseph C. Pearce

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development

 of the spirit.
-M. Scott Peck

"If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening."

-Piercy 

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling." 

-Robert M. Pirsig

Plato

Be careful what you choose. You may get it. 

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
-George D. Prentice

Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways. Where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses. 
-Arlen Price

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. 
-Marcel Proust