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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Satisfaction with an experience depends significantly on our expectations going into it.
—Ben Casnocha (American Entrepreneur, Investor)

Most of us don’t recognize opportunity until we see it working for a competitor.
—Jay Huenfeld

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
—Robert Muller

The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

He who does not shield himself from vilification receives it.
—Arabic Proverb

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
—Golda Meir (Israeli Head of State)

Take yourself as you are, whole, and do not try to live by one part alone and starve the other.
—Janet Erskine Stuart (English Catholic Nun)

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
—George Washington Burnap

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is to eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.
—Kimon Nicolaides

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
—Archilochus

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It’s all available. All you have to do is go to the library.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
—Vince Lombardi (American Sportsperson)

A disciplined conscience is a man’s best friend.—It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
—Austin Phelps (American Presbyterian Clergyman)

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, “Where is your dwelling-place?” “In the dreams of the Impotent,” comes the answer.
—Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Hindu Polymath)

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. That which the truth nourishes should thrive.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky (American Scientist)

To speak or not to speak—when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
—Og Mandino

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

Action is the foundational key to all success.
—Tony Robbins (American Actor Author)

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
—Mary Wollstonecraft (British Children’s Books Writer)

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
—Albert Pike (American Military Leader)

Hate the sin & not the sinner is a percept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and therefore the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)

Fear collides with our most conservative self and allows us to stop before we try, dismiss before we think, mock before we imagine.
—Carol Lloyd

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

Chance favors the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur (French Biologist)

The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

Practice no vice because it’s trivial… Neglect no virtue because it’s so.
—Chinese Proverb

To be able to stand not knowing long enough for something alive to take shape.
—Lynda Barry (American Cartoonist)

Dream is not what you see in sleep, dream is the thing which does not let you sleep.
—Anonymous

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

The Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
—Muhammad Ali (American Sportsperson)

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
—Anonymous

Living each moment to its absolute fullest is perhaps the only justification you have for receiving this incredible gift called life.
—Unknown

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
—George Burns

Face the brutes. That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
—Gladys Taber

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
—Arthur Eddington (English Astrophysicist)

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Love is the greatest gift we can give or be given.
—Unknown

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
—Arthur Brisbane (American Journalist)

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
—Thomas N. Carruthers

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
—Maria Mitchell

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
—Vidal Sassoon

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
—Henry Van Dyke

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

Life is a long lesson in humility.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian Philosopher)

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
—Henry Van Dyke

Man succeeds because he believes he can, or he fails because he thinks he will.
—Unknown

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don’t flinch, don’t fall; hit the line hard”.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Where you end up isn’t the most important thing. It’s the road you take to get there. The road you take is what you’ll look back on and call your life.
—Tim Wiley

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
—John M. Richardson, Jr.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
—Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Luck is a loser’s excuse for a winner’s success.
—Unknown

If you listen, you will hear. If you look, you will see. If you touch, you will feel. If you try, you will be.
—Becky Stanford

Luck is a loser’s excuse for a winner’s effort and commitment. Failure doesn’t happen unless you allow it.
—Anonymous

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
—Robert Frost (American Poet)

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
—Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher, Theologian)