Quotations and Sayings 3
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
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(Gandhi)
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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(Abraham Lincoln)
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
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(Aldous Huxley)
"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."
(Pema Chodron)
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
(Buddha)
"I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being."
(Dalai Lama)
"a friend is just like an assignment, if you answer it, pass it, but a true friend will always never be passed."
(Jan Laurence Fernan)
" Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds."
(Aristotle)
"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
(Epictetus)
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."
(Arthur Ashe)
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
(Albert Camus)
"You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you."
(Dale Carnegie)
"A true friend is the greatest possesion."
(Ben Franklin)
"Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other."
(George MacDonald)
"If you don't look out for others, who's gonna look out for you?"
(Whoopi Goldberg)
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
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(John Ruskin)
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
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(Sir Winston Churchill)
"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
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(Anthony Robbins)
"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
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( Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
(Buddha)
"A room without a book is like a body without a soul.
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(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
" If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
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(Francis Bacon)
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."
(William Shakespeare)
" small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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(Mahatma Gandhi)
"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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(Mohandas Gandhi)
"Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.
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(Denis Waitley)
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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(Anatole France)
"Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.
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(Bill Bradley)
"A man's life is interesting primarily when he had failed - for it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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(Georges Clemenceau)
"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 strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
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(George Washington Carver)
"There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come."
(Lady Borton)
" Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
(Albert Schweitzer)
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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(D. Elton Trueblood)
"One kind word can warm three winter months"
(Japanese Proverb)
"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."
(Buddha)
"A kind word never broke anyone's mouth"
(Irish Proverb)
"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
(George Bernard Shaw)
"Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help. "
(Ram Dass)
"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses"
(Confucius)
"He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
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(William Blake)
"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker"
(Buddha)
"When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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(Harold Kushner)
"My mother said to me 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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(Pablo Picasso)
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.
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(Mark Victor Hansen)
"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
(Zig Ziglar)
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
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(The Reverend Jesse Jackson)
"Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.
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(Hugh Downs)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
(Mahatma Gandhi)
"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
(Barbara De Angelis)
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.
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(Charlie Brown)
"I can't be who I want to be... Until you are who you want to be.""
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."
(Barbara De Angelis)
"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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(Arthur Ashe)
"The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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(Herbert Kaufman)
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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(Vince Lombardi)
"The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream."
(Paul MacCready)
"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."
(Emerson)
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
" Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."
(Dale Carnegie)
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
(Buddha)
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
(Aesop)
"Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
" The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore
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(Dale Carnegie)
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
(Anatole France)
"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart."
(Zig Ziglar)
"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend."
(Abraham Lincoln
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" The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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(Abraham Lincoln)
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
(Leonardo da Vinci)
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
(Colin Wilson)
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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(Henry Ford)
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
(Dale Carnegie)
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
(Alice Walker)
"Guilt is a rope that wears thin."
(Ayn Rand)
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But here was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that this was my life. This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way"
(Alfred D Souza)
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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(Aldous Huxley)
"If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out."
(Aristotle)
" Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
(Margaret Thatcher
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" Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
(Albert Schweitzer)
"Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours"
(Zig Ziglar)
"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."
(Aesop)
"Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
" The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship. "
(Barbara De Angelis)
"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."
(Dale Carnegie)
"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."
(Barbara De Angelis)
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself"
(Emerson)
"I saw further ahead than others because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
(Newton)
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your gasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
" Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow........."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become..."
(James Allen)
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today"
(James Dean)
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
(Sun Tzu)
"A goal is a dream with a deadline"
(Napoleon Hill)
"We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition (plowing straight ahead, come what may.)"
(Jimmy Buffett, Cowboy in the Jungle)
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
(Henry Ford)
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."
(Abraham Lincoln)
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
(Alice Walker)
"each this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity."
(Buddha)
"A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother."
(Ben Franklin)
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
(Albert Schweitzer)
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
(Henry Ford)
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
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(Emily Dickinson)
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television"
(Woody Allen)
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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(Alfred Hitchcock)
"Darkness is eternal. It was created before the heavens and will outlast them. Even in light it will engulf anything that challenges its sheer power"
(Jezickah Ramone)
"The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is the reason that He makes so many of them."
(Abraham Lincoln)
"Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there !"
(Rumi)
"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman."
(George Bernard Shaw)
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"
(Aesop)
"Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.
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(Osho)
"Knowledge is nothing without the wisdom to use it correctly
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(Gerald Fowler)
"What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something.."
(David Malter in _The Chosen_ by Chaim Potok)
"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."
(Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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(The 14th Dalai Lama)
"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
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(David Letterman)
"To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish"
(Benjamin Franklin)
"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
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(Kahlil Gibran)
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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(Aesop)