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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)

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
—William James (American Philosopher)

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
—Menander

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
—Jimmy Fallon (American Comedian)

I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
—Beverly Sills (American Singer)

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
—John Adams (American Head of State)

What are numbers knit|By force or custom? Man who man would be,|Must rule the empire of himself; in it|Must be supreme, establishing his throne|On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy|Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (English Poet)

My effort should never be to undermine another’s faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
—George Soros (American Investor)

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

I think the world really boils down to two types of people – those who see shapes in cloud formations, and those who just see clouds.
—Danzae Pace

One must be something, in order to do something.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

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.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana (Spanish Philosopher)

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted—in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest—at the command—of his head.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

It all comes down to this: if your subconscious “financial blueprint” is not “set’ for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
—Virgil (Roman Poet)

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, this you will become.
—James Allen

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
—Arthur Ashe (American Sportsperson)

Think twice before pointing a finger to any one as other three fingers are always pointing towards you.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
—Charlie Chaplin (British Actor)

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with—a man is what he makes of himself.
—Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish-born American Inventor)

Any man’s life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life—that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living.
—Booker T. Washington (American Educator)

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing—that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow’s obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

The race of mankind would perish, did they cease to aid each other. From the time that the mother binds the child’s head till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-mortals; no one who holds the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
—Walter Scott (Scottish Novelist)

We learn best from experience but we never directly experience the consequences of many of our most important decisions.
—Peter Senge (American Management Consultant)

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.
—Wallace Wattles (American New Thought Author)

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare to appear is work and promise of food and wages.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its consequence must be very injurious.
—George Washington (American Head of State)

Little friends may prove great friends.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
—Theodore Hesburgh (American Catholic Educator)

We do not know what to do with this short life, but we want another that will be eternal.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet)

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
—Ramsay MacDonald (British Head of State)

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
—Jean de La Fontaine (French Poet)

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
—Salvatore Satta

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
—John Quincy Adams (American Head of State)

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Silence is the mother of truth.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)