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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
—Rene Descartes (French Philosopher, Mathematician)

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)

Think you can, think you can’t; either way, you’ll be right.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
—Og Mandino

Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there is no saying when and where it may bloom forth.
—Douglas William Jerrold (English Dramatist)

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
—Herbert Hoover (American Head of State)

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.
—Wilson Mizner (American Playwright)

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
—Wayne Dyer (American Motivational Writer)

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
—Ambrose Bierce (American Editor)

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
—George MacDonald (Scottish Christian Author)

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French Moralist)

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
—Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish Essayist)

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
—William Wordsworth (English Poet)

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 (American Head of State)

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another who has not distinguished himself by his own performance.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

To be thoroughly conversant with a man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
—Edgar Allan Poe (American Poet)

Life doesn’t do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.
—John C. Maxwell (American Christian Professional Speaker)

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
—C. S. Lewis (Irish-born British Children’s Books Writer)

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

The best mind-altering drug is truth.
—Lily Tomlin

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
—Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian Poet)

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
—Baltasar Gracian

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly… men don’t like it.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

Much learning does not teach understanding.
—Heraclitus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
—Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Hindu Polymath)

There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou (American Poet)

Many an honest man practices on himself an amount of deceit, sufficient, if practiced on another, and in a little different way, to send him to the State prison.
—Christian Nestell Bovee

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
—Rutherford B. Hayes

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
—David Seabury

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 Bruyere

Non-violence is the article of faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian Philosopher)

It’s frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what’s going on.
—Amos Tversky

The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.
—The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
—D. H. Lawrence (English Novelist)

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
—Peter Drucker (Austrian-born Management Consultant)

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

Ignorance is the peace of life.
—Indian Proverb

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

The fault-finder—it is his nature’s plague to spy into abuses; and oft his jealousy shapes faults that are not.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

Justice advances with such languid steps that crime often escapes from its slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes many tears to be shed.
—Pierre Corneille (French Dramatist)

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it’s a matter of inspiration.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
—Leo Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)

The noblest search is the search for excellence.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (American Head of State)

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
—Louis L’Amour

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
—H. G. Wells (British Novelist)

See that your character is right, and in the long run your reputation will be right.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
—Homer (Ancient Greek Poet)

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
—William James (American Philosopher)

One discipline always leads to another discipline.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

Man… cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

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.
—James Beattie

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
—Thomas Wolfe

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

Don’t ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
—Don Herold (American Humorist)

If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase.
—Brian Koslow

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
—Richard de Bury

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.
—Hannah More

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)

Progress is the law of life; man is not a man as yet.
—Robert Browning (English Poet)

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
—Wilhelm von Humboldt (German Philosopher)

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)

My interest is in the future because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering (American Inventor)

A good father lives so he is a credit to his children.
—Arnold Glasow (American Businessman)

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
—John Dryden (English Poet)

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
—William Temple

Time bears away all things, even the mind.
—Virgil (Roman Poet)

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable, and must be content with finding broken portions.
—William Osler (Canadian Physician)