Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
—Domenico Cieri (Mexican Writer)
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There’s no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
—Cullen Hightower (American Humorist)
As long as we are persistence 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 (American Motivational Speaker)
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
—B. C. Forbes (Scottish-born American Journalist)
Whatever is hateful to thee, do not to thy neighbor.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
—Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (French Essayist)
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose; all other things, to reign, to lay up treasure, to build, are at the most but mere appendixes and little props.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)
I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.
—Robert Nardelli
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
—P. T. Barnum (American Businessperson)
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