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“...character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion...”
Aristotle
“...leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully...they know who they are,what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and
compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and
how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and
support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is
understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning--from
one's own life and experience.”
Warren Bennis
“...leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence...not just
actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.”
Marsha Sinetar
“...positive attitudes...come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free! “
Harvey Mackay
“...power is not really good or bad; it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive,
although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good
or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to
light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.”
Blaine Lee
“...the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we
esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
Thomas Paine
“...until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the
choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise." “
Stephen Covey
“...we come to beginnings only at the end. “
William Bridges
“A bold onset is half the battle.”
Giuseppe Garibaldi
“A chain is as strong as its weakest link.”
Danish Proverb
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“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but
also to be wrong.”
Thomas Szasz
“A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.”
Anonymous
“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. “
Harvey Mackay
“A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”
Fr. Jerome Cummings
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
General Douglas MacArthur
“A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which
renew humanity.”
Buddha, Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism
“A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.”
Canary Island Proverb
“A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.”
Iranian Proverb
“A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to
them, is swept off his feet.”
Confucius
“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory isimpossible.”
Polybius
“A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.”
Islamic Proverb
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”Edgar J. Mohn
“A life lived in fear is half lived.”
Anonymous
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
Kahlil Gibran
“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. “
Winston Churchill
“A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.”
Anonymous
“A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.”
Anonymous
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from Faust
“A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and
for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness
concerning, the main aim of his life.”
Samuel Butler
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another
mistake.”
Confucius
“A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.”
Zadok Rabinwitz
“A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to
his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not
free him from responsibility.”
Dag Hammarskjold
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“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
Joseph Joubert, French philosopher
“A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.”Mohammed
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Ovid
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
William Shedd
“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”
Sophocles
“A small house will hold a hundred friends.”
African Proverb
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
Anonymous
“A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.”
Anonymous
“A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.”
Anonymous
“A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.”
Anonymous
“A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.”
Anonymous
“A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must
be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.”
Bertrand Russell
“A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.”
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Karl Kraus
“A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that
contains it. Chinese Proverb “
“A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”
Chinese Proverb
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Sir Francis Bacon
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail
through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of
men.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.”
Donald A. Laird
“Ability is sexless.”
Christabel Pankhurst
“Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
George S. Patton
“Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.”
Nigerien Proverb
“Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.”
Mingjiao, Jiufeng Annals
“Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to
make sure it never happens again.”
Michael Johnson
“Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. “
Robert Half
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
Joan Baez
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“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal.”
Mary Beard
“Actions speak louder than words.”
English Proverb
“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. “
Stephen Covey
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
Amelia Earhart
“Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.”
Leighton
“Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.”
Horace
“Adversity it sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity,
there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.”
Danish proverb
“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
Lord Chesterfield
“After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.”
Anonymous
“Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only
a tough decision waiting to be made.”
Robert H. Schuller
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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”
Robert Browning
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken
with painstaking excellence.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or
give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty
theories.”
President Lyndon Johnson
“All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their
minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream
during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to
make them reality.”
Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia
“All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.”
Henry David Thoreau
“All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with
themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What
distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to
organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.”
Walter Anderson
“All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.”
William James
“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live
beyond its income.”
Samuel Butler
“All progress occurs because people dare to be different “
Harry Milner
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom;
justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. “
Winston Churchill
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“All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude. “
Harvey Mackay
“All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second
creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really
what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and
mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get
marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind. “
Stephen Covey
“All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.”
Anonymous
“All work is empty save when there is love.”
Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer
“Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They
see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end
in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales
presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it
clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone."
Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you. “
Stephen Covey
“Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is
worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.”
William Feather
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround
yourself with people who can help you on your quest.”
Michael Johnson
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.”
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John Churton Collins
“An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not
he knows not: he is a fool--shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he issimple--teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He
who knows and knows he knows: he is wise--follow him “
Lady Isabel Burton
“An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.”
Chinese proverb
“An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self-
being; if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.”
Karl Jaspers
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you
know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.”
Anatole France
“An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he
always decides.”
John H. Patterson
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his
individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may
wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
Buddha
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in everyopportunity. “
Winston Churchill
“And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.”
Samuel Coleridge
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“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body;
and be yet thankful.”
Colossians 3:15
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
Publilius Syrus
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
“Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.”
Anonymous
“Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it ... we become just by
performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave
ones.”
Aristotle, Ethics
“Are we to love only those who deserve our love? Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father
which is in heaven.”
Matthew 5:43-45
“Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?”
Anonymous
“As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to
apologize to my own mother? “
Christy Borgeld
“As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation
and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the
balanced whole--the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved,and the possible implications of the various alternatives--you'll try to come up with the
best solution taking all factors into consideration. “
Stephen Covey
“As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.”
Michael Johnson
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“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Nelson Mandela
“As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness
will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within,
rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others. “
Stephen Covey
“As you think in your heart, so shall you be.”
Proverbs, 23:7
“Ask for advice but do what you think is best.”
Greek proverb
“At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other
purpose than to lead ourselves.”
John P. Strelecky
“At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are
found.”
Hudson newsletter
“Attitude determines altitude.”
Anonymous
“Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get
around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room
for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I
believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.”
Peter Koestenbaum
“Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.”
Gabonese Proverb
“Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. “
Stephen Covey
“Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. “
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“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.”
Sidonie Gabrielle
“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there. “Harvey Mackay
“Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all. “
Harvey Mackay
“Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and
confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their
backs. “
Stephen Covey
“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
Confucius
“Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.”
Afghan Proverb
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater
investment. “
Stephen Covey
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
Ghandi
“Be useful where thou livest.”
George Herbert
“Be who you are in every situation.”
Michael Johnson
“Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another “
Emma Goldman
“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller
“Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”
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Chinese Proverb
“Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose. “
Stephen Covey
“Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose. “
Stephen Covey
“Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.”
Ella Williams
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. - Matthew
5:9”
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him ‘father.’”
Lydia Maria Child
“Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.”
English proverb
“Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness! “
George Jacques Danton
“But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and
absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin; it would be a form
of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality
which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear
responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene; if I can do something and I
don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.”
Karl Jaspers
“But we cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself.
Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but
they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities,which flourish in the tensions that engender them.”
Karl Jaspers
“But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves
complain.”
William Shakespeare
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“Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful. “
Winston Churchill
“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life
meaningful.”
Joshua J. Marine
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're
what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.”
Anonymous
“Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it.”
Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat.
“Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to
satisfy them.”
Henry Steele Commager
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Change yourself, change your fortunes.”
Portuguese Proverb
“Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.”
Philip Brooks
“Children are the reward of life.”
Congolese Proverb
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.”
Harold Hulbert
“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction”
Anne Sullivan
“Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher.”
William Wordsworth
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“Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met
really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping,
striving, and coping.”
Abraham Maslow
“Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to
one whole only “
Plautus
“Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”
Lucretius
“Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. “
Winston Churchill
“Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing
of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you
may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
James 1:24, RSV
“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It
is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of
renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.
Courage is will power.”
Lord Moran
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
“Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is
the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values.
Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.”
Rollo May
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more
important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
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“Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all
the others. “
Winston Churchill
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down
and listen. “
Winston Churchill
“Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all
we must cram into it. “
Winston Churchill
“Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just
stop looking elsewhere. “
Harvey Mackay
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
Bruce Lee
“Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what
they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts
with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. “
Stephen Covey
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Devotion is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith,
commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.”
J.F.T. Bugental
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by
conflict.”
William Ellery Channing
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.”
Seneca
“Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise
assists digestion.”
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Christian Nestell Bovee
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
Jim Rohn
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
Oscar Wilde
“Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and
nations.”
Berthold Auerbach
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything
simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply
because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on
the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have
been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you
find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and
all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Buddha
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail.”
Harold R. McAlindon
“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.”
Czech Proverb
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best
opportunities.”
Janet Erskine Stuart
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
Mother Teresa
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
William B. Sprague
“Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?”
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“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a
mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately. “
Stephen Covey
“Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.”
Anonymous
“Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.”
David Ogilvy
“Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.”
Dorothy Day
“Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that
your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the
point at which it paralyzes you. “
Harvey Mackay
“Don't fear, just live right.”
Neal A. Maxwell
“Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere
personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you
are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously
distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth. “
Winston Churchill
“Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time. “
Harvey Mackay
“Don't water your weeds. “
Harvey Mackay
“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped
possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”Dr. Dale Turner
“Each action can be the one on which all depends; what is decisive is only the strength
and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the
most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was
engaged in at the moment.' “
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Martin Buber
“Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human
being--as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becomingmay be completed in an infinite variety of ways.”
Francis Wilson
“Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never
existed before, something original and unique.”
Martin Buber
“Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. “
William Bridges
“Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes
out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
Robert F. Kennedy
“Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what
is worth reading.”
G. M. Trevelyan British historian
“Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.”
William Lowe Bryan
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and
the power to appreciate life.”
Brigham Young
“Education means inspiring someone’s mind, not just filling their head.”
Katie Lusk
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm Forbes
“Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed
opportunities and starve problems. “
Stephen Covey
“Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. “
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“Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You
will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of
making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you preparefor this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the
challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream. “
Harvey Mackay
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of
course and prescriptive right.”
Aldous Huxley
“Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and
implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to
the consequences of that choice.”
Marion G. Romney
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Every hand does its part to hold up the world”
“Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence
over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his
individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.”
Hubert Bonner
“Every human heart is human.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to bededicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile,
always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in
others.”
Warren G. Bennis
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“Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given
away.”
Persian Proverb
“Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as
the Columbus to his own soul.”
Sir J. Stephen
“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and
always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only
once in this way, and never again.”
Herman Hesse
“Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.”
Richard Saunders
“Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.”
Anonymous
“Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.”
Karl G. Maeser
“Examine the opportunities, the challenges you’ve given yourself.”
Michael Johnson
“Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself
today, and then your friends tomorrow.”
Anonymous
“Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.”
Leonard Berry
“Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it
again.”
Anonymous
“Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to
him.”
Aldous Huxley
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a
few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”
Jim Rohn
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.”
Anonymous
“Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. “
Harvey Mackay
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work
worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered
by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Fathers are like a lighthouse… when there is fog his children can always depend on
seeing the light.”
Christy Borgeld
“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
J.A. Froude
“Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into
experience.”
Unknown
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are
appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the
kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
Virginia Satir
“Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life. “
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Harvey Mackay
“Find the good -- and praise it.”
Alex Haley
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus
“Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn
nothing.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“Follow peace with all men.”
Hebrews 12:14
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take
morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.”
William J. Bennett
“For hope is but the dream of those that wake.”
Matthew Prior
“For if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine
relationship.”
Rollo May
“For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. “
Winston Churchill
“For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps
thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The
things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.”Donald Williams
“Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.”
Epictetus
“Fortune favors the brave.”
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“Fractures well cured make us more strong.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to
mold ourselves.”
Rollo May
“Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I
refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our
psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to
face and bear anxiety; to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's
freedom.”
Rollo May
“Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one. “
Harvey Mackay
“Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.”
Egyptian Proverb
“Friendship is not born of words alone.”
Armenian Proverb
“From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from
growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in
the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate,
destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to
emptiness.”
Abraham Maslow
“From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.”
Yiddish Proverb
“Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The
wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I
lift me lamp beside the golden door.”
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Emma Lazarus, American poet: inscription on the Statue of Liberty, New York
“Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd
expect. “Robert Half
“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”
Confucius
“Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build
with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is
accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu
“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog
“Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to
keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of
life. “
Harvey Mackay
“God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.”
Bambara Proverb
“God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.”
Ethel Watts Mumford
“Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies
of this life.”
French Proverb
“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. “
Harvey Mackay
“Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become
easy.”
Bill Blackman
“Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.”
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“Great men are not always wise.”
Job 32:9
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
“Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head
on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which
require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person
encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he
discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.”
Sidney Jourard
“Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice
what we want now for what we want eventually. “
Stephen Covey
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk
life, to be needed.”
Storm Jameson
“Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.”
Ingrid Bergman
“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward
circumstances.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”
Aristotle
“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
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“Happiness is a state of activity.”
Aristotle
“Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.”Burton Hills
“Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.”
Alice Meynell
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
Margaret B. Runbeck
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-
product of other activities.”
Aldous Huxley
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.”
Anonymous
“Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human
existence: the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being
one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.”
Erich Fromm
“Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.”
J. Petit Senn
“Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.”
Spanish Proverb
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in
the soul.”
Democritus
“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them cometrue.”
Leon J. Suenes
“Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does. “
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“Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.”
Anonymous
“Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.”The Book of Proverbs
“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow
tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will
renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow
weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
Isaiah 40:29-31
“He that has done nothing has known nothing.”
Thomas Carlyle
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He that would be a leader must be a bridge.”
Welsh Proverb
“He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.”
Proverbs
“He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.”
Anonymous
“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
Seneca
“He who has hope has everything.”
Arabian Proverb
“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”
Solon
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“He who hesitates is lost.”
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“He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.”
Author unknown
“He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.”
German Proverb
“He who lives without discipline dies without honor.”
Icelandic Proverb
“He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To
praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that
the richest could not buy.”
George Matthew Adams
“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in
his whole being.”
Paul Tillich
“He who seeks rest finds boredom....He who seeks work finds rest.”
Anonymous
“He who speaks the loudest is the least heard. “
Robert Half
“He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.”
Japanese Proverb
“Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to
face with the man I might have been.”
Anonymous
“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is
men, real, living, who do all this.”
Karl Marx
“Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate
a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly
comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values,
beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.”
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“Honesty is the best image.”
Tom Wilson
“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to
perform shall cease to exist.”
Mary Kay Ash
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.”
F.M. Hubbard
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not
the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are
obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is
good.”
Vaclav Havel
“Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.”
Anonymous
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
Emily Dickenson
“How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of
it.”
Anonymous
“How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using
our knowledge all the time?”
Henry David Thoreau
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, andkeeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really
matters most. “
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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard
“How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character. “
Robert Half
“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”
Bill Cosby
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience
of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
Douglas Adams
“I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.”
Henri Nouwen
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
Thomas A. Edison
“I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to
stop. “
Winston Churchill
“I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will
endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred
—that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our
friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover,no true friend.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by
reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart – the
best brain.”
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Robert Ingersoll
“I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to
emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is mymind that has made me a champion.”
Michael Johnson
“I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to
my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. “
Stephen Covey
“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess,
and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I
believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find
fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.”
Charles Schwab
“I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.”
Firdtjof Nansen
“I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can
for myself, and never let them annoy others.”
Robert Southey
“I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with
reality. “
Winston Churchill
“I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!”
Jerry Van Amerongen
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of itscreed: We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to
satisfy them.”John Stuart Mills
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. “
Winston Churchill
“I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life
now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the
finish line?”
Diogenes
“I light my candle from their torches.”
Robert Burton
“I never worry about action, but only about inaction. “
Winston Churchill
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going
away and doing the exact opposite.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the
moment, I still have a dream.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century American civil rights leader
“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the
moment, I still have a dream.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We
must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence
encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”Elie Wiesel
“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people
that call others weird that are weird.”
Paul McCartney
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“I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not
follow me; follow yourself!' is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being
but does not force itself on it.”
Karl Jaspers
“I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own. “
Winston Churchill
“I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather have one walk beside me than
merely point the way.”
David O. McKay
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the
seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following
them, you reach your destiny.”
Carl Schurz
“Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey; they do not permit
us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.”
Karl Jaspers
“Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to
action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a
book--provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If
the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups
of people.”
Erich Fromm
“Ideas without action are worthless. “
Harvey Mackay
“Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.”
Alfred Whitefield
“If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than isrequired of him, he is a free man.”
Chinese Proverb
“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden
bridge of tolerance.”
Anonymous
“If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.”
Tom Peters
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything
goes really good, then you did it.”
Paul "Bear" Bryant
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.”
William Edward Hickson
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you
are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I
greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values
pointing the way in which I am to go.”
Bonaro W. Overstreet
“If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is
the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty
years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition
on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.”
Mark Twain
“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”
Romans 12:18
“If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible. “
Winston Churchill
“If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward
the work required of us.”
Anonymous
“If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and
vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter
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into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and
be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If
you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in
sight.”Zen master Yuanwu
“If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.”
Anonymous
“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the
wrong place faster. “
Stephen Covey
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
Lucy Larcom
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass
“If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised. “
Winston Churchill
“If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches,
and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”
William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)
“If we all tired to make other people’s paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even
place to walk on.”
Myrtle Reed, American writer
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there
would be little hope of advance.”
Orville Wright
“If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.”Mahatma Gandhi
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the
future. “
Winston Churchill
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“If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?”
Joe Namath
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”William Arthur Ward
“If you can't accept losing, you can't win.”
Vince Lombardi
“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”
Thomas Fuller
“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”
St. Clement of Alexandra
“If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.”
Yogi Berra
“If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.”
Anonymous
“If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think
about it.”
Mary Engelbreit
“If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart.
Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom,
and wear a smile.”
Anne Mackay Thompson
“If you feel you have no faults ... there's another one.”
Anonymous
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should
be. Now put the foundations under them.”Henry David Thoreau
“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any
time, and you would achieve nothing. “
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“If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich.”
Su Shi
“If you mean to profit, learn to please. “Winston Churchill
“If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.”
Anonymous
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
Anonymous
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their
shoulders.”
Abigail Van Buren
“If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy
step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question:
"What ELSE could we do?" “
Dale Dauten
“If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.”
Bernard Haldane
“If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in
them. “
Harvey Mackay
“If you would create something, you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.”Anonymous
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you
are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
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“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.”
Jonathan Winters
“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feelgood in your heart, it is not success at all.”
Anna Quindlen
“If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.”
Anonymous
“If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create
perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. “
Stephen Covey
“Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.”
Edmund Spenser
“I'm going to stop procrastinating ... once I get around to it.”
Anonymous
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“Immaturity can last a lifetime. “
Robert Half
“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts
of trivia.”
Author Unknown
“In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human
endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible.
It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the
ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have
developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning howto use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day. “
Stephen Covey
“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”
Aristotle
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“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best
thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other... Every man's foremost task
is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and
not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already
achieved.”
Martin Buber
“In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.”
Victor Cousins
“In love beggar and king are equal.”
Indian Proverb
“In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it”
Mary Norton Gordon
“In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.”
Brian Weir
“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Author unknown
“In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation
of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide;
without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly; only a knowledge of the possibilities
enables me to know what I am actually doing.”
Karl Jaspers
“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.”
John Churton Collins
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning ofa single individual.”
Galileo Galilei
“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
Albert Schweitzer
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.”
Albert Careb
“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”Dalai Lama
“In the space age the most important space is between the ears.”
Anne Armstrong
“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”
Henry W. Longfellow
“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy
only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced
regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal
security and openness and a spirit of adventure. “
Stephen Covey
“Inspiration and genius--one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
“Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper
tomorrow.”
Christy Borgeld
“Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often
the best teachers of all.”
James Anthony Froude
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
Anonymous
“Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil--the
silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of
what man really is, not what he pretends to be.”William George Jordan
“Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.”
Japanese Proverb
“It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow. “
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Harvey Mackay
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”
Isaac Asimov
“It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say,
disappear; about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can
be settled. “
Winston Churchill
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. “
Winston Churchill
“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut
alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.) “
Latin Proverb
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see. “
Winston Churchill
“It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the
credit.”
Sandra Swinney
“It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by
fear.”
Terence
“It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing. “
Winston Churchill
“It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”
Chinese Proverb
“It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”Anonymous
“It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.”
Anonymous
“It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.”
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Seneca
“It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing
up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through athousand obstacles.”
Washington Irving
“It is love that makes the impossible possible.”
Indian Proverb
“It is never too late to be what we might have been”
George Eliot
“It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is
necessary. “
Winston Churchill
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that
they are difficult.”
Seneca
“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of
health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through
exertion, the value of rest.”
Greek Proverb
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see
the other and honor him for what he is.”
Hermann Hesse
“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. “
Margaret Thatcher
“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great
enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best,
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knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who
know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.”
Nancy Banks-Smith
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca
“It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
Aristotle
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
Alec Bourne
“It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.”
Anonymous
“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to
what he has.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth
to imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau
“It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.”
Louis Kossuth
“It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement,to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.”
Joe Klock
“It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every
day.”
Willie Mays
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“It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all
persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-
realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the
person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.”
Abraham Maslow
“It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And
never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu
“It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather
than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in
fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. “
Stephen Covey
“It takes a whole village to raise a child.”
African Proverb
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are
afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.”
Anonymous
“It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right. “
Robert Half
“It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. “
Winston Churchill
“It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
Roy Disney
“It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.”
Jerry Greenfield, cofounder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream
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“Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in
life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
Mother Teresa
“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.”
Melba Colgrove
“Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the
speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our
culture.”
Dale Dauten
“Just because you make a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.”
Georgette Mosbacher
“Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude”
“Keep away from peop