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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

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

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
—Washington Irving (American Author)

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
—Abraham Maslow (American Psychologist)

We reproach people for talking about themselves, but it is the subject they treat best.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!
—Washington Irving (American Author)

Whoever makes great presents expects great presents in return.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!
—Washington Irving (American Author)

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

When you are alone you are all your own.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one’s mind.
—Robert Collier (American Self-Help Author)

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
—Ramsay MacDonald (British Head of State)

Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)

In the depth of winter I finally learned there was inside me an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

Life is the sum of all your choices.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
—Robertson Davies (Canada Journalist)

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian Philosopher)

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
—Dante Alighieri (Italian Political leader)

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we’re in.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
—Carl Sandburg (American Children’s Books Writer)

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
—Unknown

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
—Washington Irving (American Author)

Begin—to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this and thou wilt have finished.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet)

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Laugh if you are wise.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)

Only cowards insult dying majesty.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Little things affect little minds.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Riches go to that lion among men, who is industrious. Mean people say that wealth is to be given by fate. Overcome your destiny and put in best efforts by working hard. Who is there to blame if there is no accomplishment despite your efforts?
—Hitopadesha

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.
—Charles Spurgeon (British Baptist Preacher)

If you always give, you will always have.
—Chinese Proverb

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

When peace is more valued than the entertainment of the insatiable ego, it will be discovered to be ever present and available.
—David R. Hawkins

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
—Chinese Proverb

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
—David Hume (Scottish Philosopher, Historian)

We don’t have to let go, we simply have to not hold on.
—Joseph Goldstein (American Buddhist Teacher)

It’s important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
—Russell Simmons (American Entrepreneur)

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
—Russian Proverb

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
—Glenn Beck (American Mormon Children’s Books Writer)

The journey is the reward.
—Chinese Proverb

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American Unitarian Minister)

Advanced countries of today have reached their present affluence through domination of other races and countries…Their sheer ruthlessness, undisturbed by feelings of compassion or by abstract theories of freedom, equality or justice, gave them a head start.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them – occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.
—Michelle Richmond (American Novelist)

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
—Frederick II of Prussia (Prussian Monarch)

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.
—Nikolai Berdyaev (Russian Christian Philosopher)

In small proportions we just beauties see,|And in short measures life may perfect be.
—Ben Jonson (English Dramatist)

Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make … your life bearable.
—Francine du Plessix Gray (Polish-born American Author)

Bad behavior and irrational decisions are almost always caused by fear. If you want to change the behavior, address the fear.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

When work is a pleasure, life is joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.
—Maxim Gorky (Russian Writer)

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
—Shakti Gawain (American Author)

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
—Mario Andretti (Italian-born American Sportsperson)

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.
—Joshua L. Liebman (American Jewish Rabbi)

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe—that Spirit which alone is self-subsistent, from which all truth proceeds, without which is no truth?
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (German Philosopher)

Courageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.
—Nelson Mandela (South African Political leader)

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
—Immanuel Hermann Fichte (German Philosopher)

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one’s history.
—Lemony Snicket

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
—Albert Schweitzer (French Theologian)

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)