Quotations
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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
~~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
~~~ G. K. Chestertons |
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
~~~ Lou Holtz |
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
~~~ Dietrich Bohoeffer |
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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
~~~ Emerson |
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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
~~~ Felix Frankfurter |
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing:It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
~~~ Voltaire |
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As we grow better we meet better people.
~~~ Elbert Hubbard |
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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
~~~ Oscar Wilde |
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Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
~~~ Author Unknown |
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Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have -- and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
~~~ James A. Belasco |
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Character is to personality what content is to form.
~~~ Anonymous |
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Childhoods reveals tendencies. Youth develops personalily. Maturity establishes character.
~~~ Hubert Van Zeller |
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
~~~ R. H. Grant |
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Don't go through life, grow through life.
~~~ Eric Butterworth |
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
~~~ Will Rogers |
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~~~ Schopenhauer |
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Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
~~~ Bulwer |
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Few men are of one plain, decided color most are mixed, shaded, and blended and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
~~~ Lord Chesterfield |
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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It's the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It lightens human burdens. It's the direct route to serenity and contentment.
~~~ Peter Drucker |
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience --- well, that comes from poor judgment.
~~~ Cousin Woodman |
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Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
~~~ Lester R. Bittel |
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
~~~ Jacques Barzun |
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Grieve not that men do not know you grieve that you do not know men.
~~~ Confucius |
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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~~~ Margaret Lee Runbeck |
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Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
~~~ Author Unknown |
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
~~~ Henry Ford |
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Health is the first of all liberties.
~~~ Henri Amiel |
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
~~~ Franklin P. Adams |
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
~~~ William James |
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I am not going to fight against death, but for life.
~~~ Norbert Segard |
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to a accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
~~~ Helen Keller |
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If matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
~~~ Publilius Syrus |
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If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
~~~ Gloria Steinem |
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
~~~ Elizabeth Bowen |
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
~~~ Chinese Proverb |
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In health we should continue to be the men we vowed to become when sickness prompted our words.
~~~ Pliny the Younger |
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In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
~~~ Eric Hoffer |
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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
~~~ Publilius Syrus |
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It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.
~~~ Maurice Maeterlinck |
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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
~~~ T. S. Eliot |
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It is the disposition of the thought that alter the nature of the thing.
~~~ John Lyly |
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It is the eye which makes the horizon.
~~~ Emerson |
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It is wiser to choose what you say than to say what you choose.
~~~ Unknown |
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
~~~ Lena Horne |
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
~~~ Thomas A. Edison |
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Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.
~~~ Unknown |
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Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
~~~ Johann von Goethe |
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Learn what you are and be such.
~~~ Pindar |
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Make no little plans:they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
~~~ Daniel H. Burnham |
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
~~~ George Macdonald |
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Men are born equal but they are also born different.
~~~ Erich Fromm |
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Men are not moved by things but by the views which they take of them.
~~~ Epictetus |
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
~~~ Richard Wright |
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~~~ Margaret Mead |
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No matter how much work you can do, no matter how engaging your personality may be, you will not advance far in business if you cannot work through others.
~~~ John Craig |
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No one can grow by allowing others to make his decisions.
~~~ Unknown |
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No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
~~~ Charles Dickens |
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Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets this mind to it.
~~~ Chinese Saying |
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One learns peoples through the hearts, not the eyes or the intellect.
~~~ Mark Twain |
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One man working with you is worth a dozen men working for you.
~~~ Herman M. Koelliker |
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One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
~~~ James A. Worsham |
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Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.
~~~ Judith Viorst |
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Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
~~~ Eric Hoffer |
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Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.
~~~ Margiad Evans |
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Peolpe become attached to their burdens some times more than the burdens are attched to them.
~~~ George Bernard Shaw |
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Plan ahead. It wasn't training when Noah built the ark.
~~~ Richard Cushing |
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
~~~ Peter Drucker |
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
~~~ Benjamin Franklin |
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Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
~~~ Theodore N. Vail |
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
~~~ Emerson |
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Teamwork divides the task and double the success.
~~~ Author Unknown |
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The body never lies.
~~~ Martha Graham |
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
~~~ Richard Bach |
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The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.
~~~ Guatave Le Bon |
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The hearts of the great can be changed.
~~~ Homer |
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
~~~ William J.H. Boetcker |
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The more finished the character, the more striking is its individuality.
~~~ Emerson |
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
~~~ Baltasar Gracian |
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There are some persons who never decide from deliberate motives at all, but are the mere creatures of impulse.
~~~ William Hazlitt |
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There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
~~~ Dostoyevsky |
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To avoid sickness, eatless, to prolong life, worry less.
~~~ Chu Hui Weng |
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To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else --- is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~~~ E.E. Cummings |
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
~~~ Bette Davis |
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Too much agreement kills a chat.
~~~ Elderidge Cleaver |
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True happiness lies in giving it to others.
~~~ Unknown |
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Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw mud, the other stars.
~~~ Author Unknown |
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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.It's those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
~~~ Peace Pilgrim |
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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.
~~~ Marya Mannes |
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
~~~ Emerson |
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Use your head to handle yourself, your heart to handle others.
~~~ Author unknown |
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
~~~ Calvin Coolidge |
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We should contuct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
~~~ Seneca the Younger |
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Well done is better than well said.
~~~ Benjamin Franklin |
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When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
~~~ R. H. Grant |
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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
~~~ Charles F. Kettering |
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
~~~ Confucius |
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
~~~ Joseph Joubert |