Poor Man's College Aapex

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.|Robert Cecil Day Lewis
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.|Ashley Montagu
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.|Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.|Carl Rogers
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.|Thomas Troward
Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on the inside.|Josh Billings
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.|Elbert Hubbard
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.|Joseph Addison
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.|Jim Bishop
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.|Dale Carnegie
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.|Calvin Coolidge
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.|Tyron Edwards
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.|R. W. Griswold
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.|Immanuel Kant
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.|Marianne Moore
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.|Alexander Pope
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.|Charles M. Schwab
Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.|Simms
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.|Henry Van Dyke
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.|Author Unknown
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.|Author Unknown
Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.|Author Unknown
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.|Author Unknown
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.|Author Unknown
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.|John Locke
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.|Yiddish Proverb
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.|Eric Hoffer
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.|William Hazlitt
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.|Eric Hoffer
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.|John Locke
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.|Andre Malraux
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.|Anais Nin
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.|Walter Scott
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.|Lord Tennyson
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.|Edwin P. Whipple
None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.|Author Unknown
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.|Author Unknown
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.|Author Unknown
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.|Henry Fielding
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.|Leighton
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.|Plutarch
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.|Author Unknown
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?|Carl L. Becker
The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result -- to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.|Marvin E. Frankel
Business today consists in persuading crowds.|Gerald Stanley Lee
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.|Mark Twain
Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.|Author Unknown
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is|Phillips Brooks
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.|Benjamin Franklin
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.|Ben Johnson
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.|Henry David Thoreau
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.|Woodrow Wilson
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.|Author Unknown
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.|Author Unknown
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.|Joseph Addison
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.|Dr. Thomas Arnold
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.|Sainte-Beave
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.|Andre Bernard Buruch
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.|Clarence Darrow
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.|Eric Hoffer
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.|Martin Luther King Jr.
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.|W. Somerset Maugham
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.|Pindar
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.|Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds, I would pick more daisies.|Nadine Stair
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.|Henry David Thoreau
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.|Mark Twain
Age withers only the outside.|Author Unknown
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.|Author Unknown
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea|Author Unknown
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.|Henry Ward Beecher
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.|Joseph Conrad
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.|David Lloyd George
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.|Jean De La Bruyere
Ambition is not a vice of little people.|Michel de Montaigne
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.|Sallust
Where ambition ends happiness begins.|Author Unknown
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.|Aristotle
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.|Chinese Proverb
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.|Thomas C. Haliburton
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.|Martin Luther King Jr.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.|Bible
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.|Seneca
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.|Author Unknown
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.|Author Unknown
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.|Tyron Edwards
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.|Ovid
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.|Norman Douglas
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.|Joseph Addison
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.|Bob Conklin
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.|Jerome P. Fleishman
I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.|William Dean Howells
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.|Latin Proverb
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self|Madame Neckar
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.|Sophocles
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.|Charles Boyle
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.|C. C. Colton
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.|Benjamin Franklin
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.|Walter Savage Landor
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.|Michel de Montaigne
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.|Author Unknown
People who know the least always argue the most.|Author Unknown
By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.|Karl Buhler
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.|Anton Chekhov
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist|Albert Einstein
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.|Jules Feiffer
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.|Mildred & Victor Goertzel
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.|Eric Hoffer
Adults interfere with a natural biologic development of the child's motor, visual, mental, and artistic abilities when they try to influence the child's work in the early years. The adult's brain has accumulated much more visual and artistic memory than the child's, so there can be no true meeting of adult and child mind unless the adult knows how the child's mind functions in art.|Rhoda Kellog
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.|W. Somerset Maugham
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.|Kimon Nicolaides
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.|Pablo Picasso
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.|Auguste Rodin
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.|Henry David Thoreau
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.|Oscar Wilde
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.|Kahlil Gibran
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.|Alfred A. Montapert
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.|Robert Southey
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.|William Shakespeare
It seems to me probable that anyone who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them in some extent; not that it was simply "their fault" - I don't mean that- but that they have contributed to it by impatience, or intolerance, or brusqueness- or some provocation.|Robert Hugh Benson
It is not the position, but the disposition.|J. E. Dinger
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.|Raymond Holliwell
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.|Helen Keller
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.|John R. Miller
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.|Norman Vincent Peale
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.|Dr. Hans Selye
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.|Author Unknown
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.|George Bancroft
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property|Thomas Jefferson
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.|Austin O'Malley
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.|John Winthrop
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.|Robert Collier
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.|Napoleon Hill
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Unfortunately most of us are completely unaware of this fact and we do not monitor our thoughts with the care needed so that we can create in our lives the results we say we want. Since the great majority of people do not feel worthy and deserving of abundant good fortune, radiant good health and total success in all areas of their lives that overriding thought pattern controls the results people get. The first order of business of anyone who wants to enjoy success in all areas of his/her life is to take charge of the internal dialogue they have and only think, say and behavior in a manner consistent with the results they truly desire.|Sidney Madwed
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.|Florence Scovel Shinn
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.|George Bancroft
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.|Langston Hughes
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.|Mere
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.|George Santayana
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.|Upham
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.|Dr. George W. Crane
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.|Bruce Henderson
When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be good. It never occurred to me that I was always behaving in some manner. But I didn't have the awareness or skill to ask those grown ups what they meant when they told me to behave and to be good. Now I realize that all they wanted was for me to conform to their idea of what was good and not to do what they called bad behavior, which they sometimes changed at will. Even today people are still telling me how I should behave, but now I ask what they mean and sometimes it drives them up a wall.|Sidney Madwed
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.|Author Unknown
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes|Author Unknown
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.|Walter Bagehot
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.|John Burroughs
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds|C. Chesterfield
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.|C. C. Colton
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.|William James
It is easier to believe than to doubt.|Everett D. Martin
If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.|Alfred A. Montapert
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.|Ovid
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe|Leo Rosten
To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.|King Stanislas I of Poland
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.|Alan Watts
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.|Author Unknown
He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.|Hindoo Maxim
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance|Author Unknown
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.|A. Bronson Alcott
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.|Henry Ward Beecher
A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.|Rupert Brooke
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books|Thomas Carlyle
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.|William E. Channing
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.|Sir John Denham
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read much, but not many books.|Benjamin Franklin
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.|S. I. Hayakawa
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."|Paxton Hood
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.|Helen Keller
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.|Katherine Mansfield
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.|John Milton
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.|Theodore Parker
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.|Henry C. Rogers
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.|Arthur Schoenhauer
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed|Sir W. Temple
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.|Voltaire
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.|Yevgeny Zamyatin
Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.|Lord Byron
Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.|Tyron Edwards
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.|Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.|Albert Schweitzer
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread|Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men|Henry B. Adams
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.|Wernher Von Braun
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.|Smiley Blanton
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.|Peter Cooper
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.|William Feather
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.|Edgar Watson Howe
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.|Sidney Madwed
What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors|Keniche Ohnae
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business|Charles M. Schwab
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.|Henry David Thoreau
The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.|Edwin Markham
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.|P. J. O'Rourke
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.|George Santayana
It is better to live richly than to die rich.|Author Unknown
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help.|Author Unknown
Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.|Author Unknown
One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.|Claude M. Bristol
It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.|Robert Collier
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.|Robert Collier
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.|Kahlil Gibran
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.|Claude A. Helvetius
Desire creates the power.|Raymond Holliwell
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.|D. H. Lawrence
Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.|Manton
I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that|Stirling Moss
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.|Coventry Patmore
"Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.|Samuel Smiles
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.|Author Unknown
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.|Joseph Conrad
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.|Austin O'Malley
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.|Randolph Silliman Bourne
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.|Tyron Edwards
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.|Epicurus
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.|John Oliver Hobbes
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.|John F. Kennedy
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.|Alfred A. Montapert
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.|David Seabury
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.|Alfred North Whitehead
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.|James Allen
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.|Ferdinand Foch
To him who is determined it remains only to act.|Italian
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.|Dr. A. B. Meldrum
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn|Philip Massinger
No man with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul searching disappointment. Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are living springs of water, and three score and ten palms.|Brown
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.|William Shakespeare
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.|Charles Talleyrand
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.|Benjamin Franklin
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.|Charles A. Stoddard
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.|Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.|Joseph Addison
Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.|G. Campbell
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.|Joseph Joubert
There is nothing displays the quickness of genius more than a dispute - as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's lustre. But perhaps the odds are against the man of taste in this particular.|Shestone
He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion.|Richard Whately
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.|C. C. Colton
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.|C. C. Colton
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.|T. T. Munger
The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.|Willmott
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.|John Alan Appleman
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.|Chazal
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.|Robert Collier
When you cease to dream you cease to live.|Malcolm S. Forbes
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.|Henry J. Kaiser
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.|Orison Swett Marden
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!|Alfred A. Montapert
Big thinking precedes great achievement.|Wilfred Peterson
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.|Denis Waitley
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.|Author Unknown
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.|Thomas Carlyle
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.|T. L. Cuyler
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.|George Eliot
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.|Mary Lyon
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty.|William Nevins
Who escapes duty, avoids a gain.|Theodore Parker
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.|Aristotle
Early morning hath gold in its mouth.|Benjamin Franklin
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.|J. Todd
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.|Allan K. Chalmers
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.|Henry Tuckerman
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.|James R. Angell
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.|Hosea Ballou
We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.|Jerome Seymour Bruner
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.|Richard Clark
There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.|Floyd Dell
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.|John Dewey
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.|Albert Einstein
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.|Robert Frost
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.|John W. Gardner
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.|Sir William Haley
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.|John Holt
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.|Robert M. Hutchins
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.|Alice James
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.|Samuel Johnson
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.|John F. Kennedy
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.|Abraham Lincoln
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.|John Lubbock
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.|Horace Mann
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.|Alice Duer Miller
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.|Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Tis education forms the common mind;/Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.|Alexander Pope
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.|Carl Rogers
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.|Bertrand Russell
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.|George Bernard Shaw
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.|Lillian Smith
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.|Henry David Thoreau
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.|H. G. Wells
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.|Albert E. Wiggam
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.|Author Unknown
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.|Author Unknown
It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.|John Wooden
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them|Author Unknown
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.|Honore De Balzac
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.|Carl Jung
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.|Bertrand Russell
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.|Vauvenargues
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.|Richard M. DeVos
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.|John D. Rockefeller
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.|Author Unknown
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.|Author Unknown
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.|George Matthew Adams
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.|Katharine Butler Hathaway
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.|Booker T. Washington
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.|Edward B. Butler
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.|William McFee
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.|Sir J. R. Seeley
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by."|Author Unknown
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.|Author Unknown
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.|Euripides
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us|Orison Swett Marden
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.|Joseph Chilton Pearce
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back|Clement Stone
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.|Arthur Chapman
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.|Benjamin Franklin
The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.|Young
There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.|Author Unknown
The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.|Author Unknown
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.|Eugene Edwards
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.|Commitment To Excellence
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.|Edward Harriman
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.|Charles Knight
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.|Orison Swett Marden
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.|W. Somerset Maugham
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.|Charles M. Schwab
Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.|Author Unknown
Life is largely a matter of expectation.|Horace
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.|Orison Swett Marden
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.|Norman Vincent Peale
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.|Grace Speare
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.|American
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.|Hosea Ballou
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.|William E. Channing
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.|Henry Ford
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.|Aldous Huxley
Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes|Abraham Harold Maslow
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.|Friedrich Nietzsche
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.|Carl Rogers
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.|Sir Philip Sidney
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.|Saint Teresa Of Avila
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.|Alfred North Whitehead
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.|Author Unknown
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.|Author Unknown
Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.|Antisthenes
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.|Annie Besant
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.|Francis Crawford
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.|Lord Chesterfield
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.|Edward Dowden
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.|Francois de Fenelon
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.|W. E. Gladstone
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.|Napoleon Hill
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.|Ken Keyes
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.|Orison Swett Marden
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.|Jawaharal Nehru
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.|Plutarch
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.|Joseph Sugarman
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.|Herbert B. Swope
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.|H. L. Wayland
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.|Author Unknown
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.|Henry Christopher Bailey
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.|Josh Billings
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.|Dr. Frank Crane
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated|Tyron Edwards
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne|William M. Evarts
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.|Henry H. Haskins
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.|Thomas Jefferson
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?|Edwin Markham
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.|Plato
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.|Friedrich Von Schlegel
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.|Sydney Smith
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.|Henry David Thoreau
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.|Ellen G. White
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.|Author Unknown
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.|Author Unknown
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.|John Christian Bovee
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.|Samuel Johnson
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.|Johann Von Schiller
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little|Stanislaus
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.|Henri-Frederic Amiel
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.|Pearl S. Buck
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.|Confucius
The family is the nucleus of civilization.|William James Durant
There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.|Kin Hubbard
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.|Haniel Long
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.|Isaac Rosenfeld
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.|Mark Twain
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.|Author Unknown
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.|Henry Ward Beecher
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.|Dale Carnegie
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.|G. K. Chesterton
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.|Henry Ford
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.|Eric Hoffer
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.|Krishnamurti
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.|Orison Swett Marden
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.|Napoleon
The only thing to fear is fear itself.|Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do what you fear and fear disappears.|David Schwartz
In time we hate that which we often fear.|William Shakespeare
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.|Edward Weeks
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.|Author Unknown
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.|Dale Carnegie
To know is not less than to feel.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.|Thomas Jefferson
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.|Author Unknown
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.|Boileau
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.|Benjamin Franklin
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.|Aldous Huxley
He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.|Author Unknown
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.|A Course In Miracles
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.|Lord Chesterfield
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.|Lord Herbert
Forgive thyself little, and others much.|Leighton
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.|Rambler
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.|Sterne
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.|Tillotson
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.|Author Unknown
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.|Author Unknown
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.|Benjamin Franklin
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.|Montesquieu
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.|Saadi
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.|Johann Georg Zimmermann
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.|Joseph Bonaparte
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.|Albert Camus
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.|Clarence Darrow
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.|Ilya Ehrenburg
Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.|Marilyn Ferguson
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.|Lloyd George
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.|Arthur Garfield Hays
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.|Vernon Howard
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.|Thomas Jefferson
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.|Walter Lippman
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.|Rollo May
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.|Anais Nin
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.|John Randolph
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.|Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.|George Santayana
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.|Sri Madhava
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.|Author Unknown
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.|Joseph Addison
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.|Jean De La Bruyere
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.|Richard Burton
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.|C. C. Colton
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.|George Eliot
The only way to have a friend is to be one.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.|Sam Walter Foss
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.|Robert Hall
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.|Edgar Watson Howe
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.|William James
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.|Charles Lamb
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.|Robert Lynd
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.|John Henry Newman
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.|Ricther
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.|George Santayana
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.|Sydney Smith
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.|The Talmud
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then|Henry David Thoreau
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.|Charles Dudley Warner
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.|Author Unknown
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.|Author Unknown
Friendship is love with understanding.|Author Unknown
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, of course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.|Abraham Myerson
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.|John Burroughs
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.|Kahlil Gibran
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.|Michael Korda
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.|Orison Swett Marden
You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?|Col. Harland Sanders
If you don't get a kick out of the job you are doing you'd better hunt another one.|Samuel Vauclain
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.|Barry Duncan
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.|Anna Jameson
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.|Henry Taylor
Genius is childhood recaptured.|Bauldlaire
The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago.|Dorothea Brande
Since when was genius found respectable?|Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.|Chang Ch'ao
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.|Eugene Delacroix
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.|Benjamin Franklin
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.|William Hazlitt
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.|Elbert Hubbard
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.|William James
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.|Carl Jung
All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.|Hannah More
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.|Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.|Josh Billings
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.|Jonathan Swift
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.|L. B. Walton
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.|W. B. Yeats
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius|Author Unknown
Getters don't get - givers get.|Eugene Benge
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.|Robert Collier
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.|Elbert Hubbard
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.|Orison Swett Marden
Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.|Anthony Norvell
Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.|Stephen A. Brennan
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.|Alexander Clark
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.|Joseph Joubert
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.|Douglas Lurtan
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.|Alfred A. Montapert
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.|T. T. Munger
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.|Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.|Clement Stone
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.|Author Unknown
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.|Henry Ward Beecher
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God|Albert Einstein
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.|Henry Ford
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.|Thomas Jefferson
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.|Michael Monahan
Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.|J. A. Spender
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.|Author Unknown
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.|Thomas Carlyle
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.|Elbert Hubbard
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.|Alexander Pope
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies."|Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Who gossips to you will gossip about you.|Turkish
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.|Author Unknown
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation|Author Unknown
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind|Author Unknown
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well|Author Unknown
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.|Seneca
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.|Henri-Frederic Amiel
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.|Alexis Carrel
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.|C. C. Colton
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.|Confucius
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.|Kahlil Gibran
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.|George Herbert
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.|Elbert Hubbard
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.|Marya Mannes
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.|William Penn
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.|John Ruskin
He is not great who is not greatly good.|William Shakespeare
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.|Mark Twain
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.|Author Unknown
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.|Charles Horton Cooley
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.|Author Unknown
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.|R. C. Allen
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.|Chinese Proverb
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.|Hermann Hesse
Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.|Dr. Maxwell Maltz
When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.|Rosilind Russell
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.|Saint Francis Of Assisi
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.|Robert Cecil
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.|Lee Iacocca
The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.|Robert Hall
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.|Immanuel Kant
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.|Ricther
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.|Sir Philip Sidney
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.|Author Unknown
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.|Author Unknown
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.|William Shakespeare
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.|South
The guilty catch themselves.|Author Unknown
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.|Juliene Berk
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.|Chinese Proverb
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.|Evenus
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.|W. R. Inge
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.|Horace Mann
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.|Friedrich Nietzsche
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.|Mrs. Sigourney
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.|Thomas Troward
As a twig is bent the tree inclines.|Virgil
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.|Author Unknown
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.|Henri-Frederic Amiel
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.|E. F. Benson
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.|Albert Camus
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.|Dale Carnegie
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.|Dale Carnegie
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.|C. C. Colton
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.|Ernest Dimnet
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.|Tyron Edwards
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.|William Feather
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.|Jerry Gellis
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.|Roger L'Estrange
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.|Vernon Howard
He is rich who owes nothing.|Hungarian
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.|Storm Jameson
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.|Helen Keller
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.|Nikolaus Lenus
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.|Maurice Maeterlinck
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.|John Stuart Mill
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.|Montesquieu
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.|William Lyon Phelps
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.|Karl Popper
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.|Bertrand Russell
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.|Charles M. Schwab
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.|C. P. Snow
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.|Booth Tarkington
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.|Denis Waitley
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.|Author Unknown
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.|Author Unknown
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.|Author Unknown
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.|Author Unknown
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.|Sir Thomas Browne
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.|Dale Carnegie
Hatred - The anger of the weak.|Alphonse Daulet
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.|Thomas Fuller
We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.|Basil W. Maturin
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.|Cesare Pavese
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.|Lord Bertrand Russell
It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.|Tacitus
Hate pollutes the mind.|Author Unknown
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.|Author Unknown
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.|Author Unknown
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.|Rona Barrett
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.|Dio Lewis
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals|Benjamin Franklin
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.|Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.|Thomas Jefferson
Joy, temperance, and repose,/Slam the door on the doctor's nose.|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.|Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.|William Penn
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.|William Saroyan
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.|Sir Philip Sidney
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life|Henry David Thoreau
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.|Izaak Walton
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.|Author Unknown
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.|Author Unknown
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"/"Only the village druggist," was the answer./"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman./"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."|Author Unknown
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."|Author Unknown
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.|Author Unknown
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.|Sir Winston Churchill
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is a history in all men's lives.|William Shakespeare
It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty.|Advance
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.|Thomas Carlyle
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.|C. C. Colton
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.|M. Henry
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?|Sidney Madwed
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.|Charles Peguy
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.|George Bernard Shaw
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.|George Washington
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.|Author Unknown
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.|Plutarch
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.|Bruce Barton
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.|Erik H. Erikson
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.|Herbert Hoover
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.|Johnson
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.|Samuel Smiles
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.|Beaumarchis
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment|R. Buckminster Fuller
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.|Hermann Hesse
Human nature is not of itself vicious.|Thomas Paine
It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.|Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.|Author Unknown
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.|Author Unknown
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.|Author Unknown
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."|Johnson
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.|Saint Bernard
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.|Francis Quarles
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.|Thomas Carlyle
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.|Helitzer
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.|Helen Luke
He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.|Dave Preston
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.|Shaftesbury
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.|Author Unknown
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.|Author Unknown
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.|Author Unknown
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.|Edmund Burke
There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the other are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; and men's own rigtheousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make rigtheousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.|Jonathan Edwards
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.|Samuel Johnson
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.|William Shakespeare
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 will reach your destiny.|Carl Schurz
It is useless to send armies against ideas.|Georg Brandes
There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.|Francis A. Carter
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.|Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are prisoners of ideas.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.|Charles Fillmore
Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.|William James
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.|William Lippmann
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.|Klemens Von Metternich
A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.|Jules Renard
There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.|James Roy Smith
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.|Bishop Vincent
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"|Author Unknown
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.|Author Unknown
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.|Author Unknown
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves.|Anne Baxter
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.|Thomas Carlyle
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.|Jeremy Collier
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.|Benjamin Franklin
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.|Sidney Madwed
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.|Francis Quarles
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.|Smart
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.|Robert Louis Stevenson
It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.|Aristippus
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.|Gay
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.|Johnson
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.|Saadi
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.|Jeremy Taylor
What is now proved was only once imagined.|Blake
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.|Robert Collier
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.|Donald Curtis
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?|Benjamin Franklin
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.|Napoleon Hill
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.|Carl Jung
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.|Dr. Maxwell Maltz
My method is different. I don't rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the devise in my mind. When I have gone as far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.|Win Ng
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?|Cesare Pavese
The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.|Robert L Schwartz
The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.|Dugald Stewart
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.|Thomas Troward
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.|Jack Youngblood
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.|Author Unknown
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.|Edmund Burke
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.|Greville
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.|Johann Kaspar Lavater
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.|Vinet
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.|Sir Francis Bacon
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.|Franz Kafka
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.|Francois de Fenelon
It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.|Thomas Carlyle
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.|Napoleon
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.|Thomas Fuller
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.|Albert Cooper
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.|William Cobbett
Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.|X. Doudan
It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.|Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.|C. C. Colton
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.|James Goldsmith
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.|Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.|Wilberforce
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.|Robert Collier
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.|Napoleon Hill
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.|Sir Walter Scott
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.|David Viscott
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.|Horace Bushnell
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.|Macleod
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.|Ricther
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.|Edmund Burke
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.|H. M. Tomlinson
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.|George Eliot
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.|Barbara Paley
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.|Sir Francis Bacon
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.|William Shakespeare
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.|Alexis Carrel
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.|D. H. Lawrence
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.|Author Unknown
Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.|Alexandre Dumas
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.|Paul Eldridge
In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.|R. J. Baughan
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.|R. W. Dale
Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.|Alfred A. Montapert
Joy is not a thing, it is in us.|Charles Wagner
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.|Bailey
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.|Kahlil Gibran
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.|Sir Arthur Helps
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.|Malayan Proverb
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.|Olive Schreiner
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.|William Wordsworth
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.|Author Unknown
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.|Thomas Arnold
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.|Henry Bolingbroke
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.|Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.|Will Durant
What is not fully understood is not possessed.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.|Johnson
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.|Hannah More
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.|Charles Simmons
Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced" in order to be known.|Edwin P. Whipple
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.|Henri Delacroix
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.|Field Marshall John French
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.|Thomas Jefferson
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.|Johnson
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say having double meaning.|Rosenstock-Huessy
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.|Henry David Thoreau
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?|Author Unknown
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.|Joseph Addison
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.|Chazal
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.|Johann Kaspar Lavater
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.|Quintilian
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.|George Bernard Shaw
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.|Author Unknown
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.|Author Unknown
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.|Thomas Carlyle
May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right|Gypsy Proverb
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.|Eric Hoffer
Judgment is forced upon us by experience.|Johnson
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.|Walter Lippmann
Non Judgment: In our world where it seems we are taught to judge everything all around and about us and we spend so much of our time doing just that, it might be wise to ask if we can judge anything. To judge anything with any degree of clarity and accuracy we would need all the information past, present and future and how it will affect all concerned to make a perfect judgment. Since no one has that skill, ability or information, you might agree, it may be unwise to judge. This idea may be hard to accept, but when you look back over your life and the judgments you made, ask yourself. How many of your judgments, when you made them, were you perfectly sure they were correct, would you want to change now with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight? Since every judgment is only an opinion based on the limited information at hand, filtered through one's personal value system, it might be safe to assume no two people will judge anything exactly the same. Even concepts of right and wrong, good or bad, good or bad morals and ethics are only opinions, for what may be good in one case may be a disaster in another.|Sidney Madwed
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.|Alexander Pope
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.|George Bernard Shaw
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.|Robert Southey
The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.|U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.|Author Unknown
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.|Author Unknown
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.|Author Unknown
There are no office hours for leaders.|Cardinal James Gibbons
A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.|Jules Ormont
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.|Author Unknown
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.|Author Unknown
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.|Benjamin Disraeli
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.|John Locke
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.|Plato
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.|Edward Young
Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.|Author Unknown
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.|C. C. Colton
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.|Hasidic Saying
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.|Michel de Montaigne
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.|Blaise Pascal
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.|Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.|William Shenstone
Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.|Author Unknown
The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.|Author Unknown
A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.|Author Unknown
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.|Author Unknown
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.|James Allen
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.|Charles Austin Beard
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.|Phillips Brooks
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.|John Burroughs
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.|Albert Camus
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.|C. C. Colton
Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.|Kirk Douglas
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.|Loren Eiseley
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.|Augusta Jane Evans
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.|Henry Ford
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.|Zona Gale
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.|Rabbi Abraham Heschel
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.|Johnson
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.|Soren Kierkegaard
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.|H. T. Leslie
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?|Madame de Maintenon
Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.|Wilson Mizner
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.|Plato
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.|Hyman G. Rickover
There is no wealth but life.|John Ruskin
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.|George Santayana
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?|Seneca
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.|Socrates
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.|Henry David Thoreau
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.|Tieck
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.|Voltaire
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.|Frank Lloyd Wright
The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.|Author Unknown
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.|Author Unknown
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.|Author Unknown
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.|Author Unknown
Life is too short to be taken seriously.|Author Unknown
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.|Benjamin Disraeli
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.|Krishnamurti
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened.|Robert C. Murphy
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.|Kenneth A. Wells
Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.|Author Unknown
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.|Author Unknown
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.|Dale Carnegie
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.|Persian
To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.|Author Unknown
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.|Brendan Francis
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.|Jean De La Bruyere
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.|Philip Saltier
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.|Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.|Alfred Adler
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.|Honore De Balzac
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.|Henry Ward Beecher
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.|George Washington Carver
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.|C. C. Colton
When you differ with a man, show him, by your looks, by your bearing and by everything that you do or say, that you love him.|Senator Paul Douglas
Love is love's reward.|John Dryden
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is love there is life.|Mahatma Gandhi
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.|Rabbi Julius Gordon
It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor.|Eric Hoffer
Life in abundance comes only through great love.|Elbert Hubbard
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."|Victor Hugo
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.|Alphonse Karr
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.|Og Mandino
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.|Madame Necker
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.|Rainer Maria Rilke
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.|George Santayana
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.|Erich Segal
What force is more potent than love?|Igor Stravinsky
There is no remedy for love but to love more.|Henry David Thoreau
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.|Voltaire
If marriage is your object,/You'd better start loving your subject.|Author Unknown
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.|Author Unknown
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?|Author Unknown
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.|Author Unknown
Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.|Author Unknown
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.|John Dewey
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.|Douglas Jerrold
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?|Rothschild
"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.|Author Unknown
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.|Author Unknown
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.|Michel de Montaigne
Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.|C. A. Bartol
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.|Lord Chesterfield
I don't believe in the goodness of disagreeable people.|O. Dewey
The society of women is the element of good manners.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.|Sir Walter Raleigh
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.|William Shakespeare
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.|Richard Whately
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.|Stephen Hawking
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.|Bertrand Russell
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.|Robert G. Ingersoll
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.|Dale Carnegie
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.|Cyril Connolly
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.|Thomas Fuller
We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.|Eric Hoffer
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.|Firmianus Lactantius
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.|Alfred Mercier
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!|Alexander Pope
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?|Martin Tupper
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.|Author Unknown
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.|Author Unknown
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.|John Adams
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.|Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.|Sir B. Brodie
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.|Pearl S. Buck
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.|Lord Chesterfield
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.|Cicero
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.|C. C. Colton
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.|George A. Dorsey
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.|Fontenelle
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.|William Hazlitt
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.|Eric Hoffer
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.|Washington Irving
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!|Carl Jung
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.|Rudyard Kipling
I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.|Sidney Madwed
The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.|Alfred A. Montapert
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.|Boris Pasternak
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.|Quintilian
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.|Seneca
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.|Edmund Spenser
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.|Henry David Thoreau
Mind is the great lever of all things.|Daniel Webster
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.|Author Unknown
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?|Author Unknown
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.|Author Unknown
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.|Lawrence K. Frank
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.|Author Unknown
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.|Phineas Taylor Barnum
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.|Samuel Butler
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.|W. J. Cameron
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.|Henry Fielding
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."|Benjamin Franklin
The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.|Kin [F. McKinney] Hubbard
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.|Sidney Madwed
If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a ne'er-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.|Vic Oliver
Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world.|Frederick Saunders
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.|Logan Pearsall Smith
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.|Henry David Thoreau
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.|Yiddish Proverb
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.|Archibald Alexander
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.|Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.|W. M. L. Jay
The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense of "FEEL GOOD," a sense of inner peace and well being. To expect a person to go against his desire to feel good or as good as he can feel under any momentary condition is illogical and irrational. In the observation of human behavior, one will notice every human act is a response to a personal need. This is true whether one signs a million dollar contract, scratches one's nose, rolls over in bed, or just day dreams his life away. People will do things which seem contrary to this concept, but the bottom line is they perceive some kind of payoff which will make them feel good. And the payoff is almost always emotional. When you ask people why they want to be financially independent, they might say that they could buy things without having to worry about where the money will come from. And when they worry, they don't FEEL GOOD. A drug addict, a compulsive eater, an alcoholic and anyone with a compulsive habit will continue with their habits because at the moment of action they believe and feel it will make them feel good. That is why breaking compulsive habits are so difficult.|Sidney Madwed
"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.|Friedrich Nietzsche
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.|Denis Waitley
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.|Thomas Carlyle
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.|Aaron Copland
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.|Jonathan Edwards
All the sounds of the earth are like music.|Oscar Hammerstein II
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.|Hazrat Inayat Khan
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.|Luther
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.|Ricard
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.|Mrs. Stowe
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.|Henry Tuckerman
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.|Author Unknown
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.|Horace Binney
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.|Dick Gregory
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.|Isaac Bashevis Singer
We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of our lives. Wanting and liking many times are not the same thing. Many people have done what they say they didn't want to do at a particular moment. And that may be true until one looks deeper into the motivation behind the doing. What they are really saying is the price they will have to pay or the consequences they will have to endure, for not doing that something may be too high or onerous for them not to do it. Such as going to work. Many people say they don't want to go to work and yet they go. Which means they don't want to risk losing their jobs and the negative hurting emotions associated with not having a job. It has been estimated about 90% to 95% of all people work at jobs which are unfulfilling and which they dislike and would leave in a minute if they only knew what they really wanted to do.|Sidney Madwed
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.|Shunryu Suzuli
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.|Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.|William Blake
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.|Thomas Carlyle
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.|Cicero
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.|Cyril Connolly
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.|Albert Einstein
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.|John Erskine
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.|Thomas Jefferson
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.|Thomas Mann
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.|John Viscount Morley
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.|Socrates
Conscience, in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.|Taylor's Statesman
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.|Voltaire
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.|Author Unknown
Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.|Author Unknown
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.|Author Unknown
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.|John Burroughs
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.|Jeremy Collier
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.|Benjamin Disraeli
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.|J. Paul Getty
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.|Henry J. Kaiser
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.|Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.|Orison Swett Marden
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.|C. Mather
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.|John D. Rockefeller
Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.|Grace Speare
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.|Vauvenargues
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.|Author Unknown
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.|Author Unknown
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.|Author Unknown
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.|Robert Collier
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.|Edward Steichen
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.|Author Unknown
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Some ingenious confectioners, obeying the law, served ice cream with syrup but no soda. This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda, and became so popular that orders for "Sundays" crossed the counter everyday of the week. When objection was raised to christening the dish after the Sabbath, the spelling was changed to Sundae, and so developed one of America's most characteristic dishes.|William Lyon Phelps
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.|Author Unknown
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.|C. C. Colton
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.|Thomas Wentworth Higginson
If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.|Bruce Barton
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.|Dorothy Fisher
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.|Gloria Steinem
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.|Author Unknown
If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.|Author Unknown
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.|Aristotle
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.|Horace Bushnell
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.|Dutch
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.|Epictetus
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.|Eric Hoffer
Patience is the key to content.|Mahomet
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.|C. S. Robinson
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.|Josh Billings
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.|Author Unknown
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.|Author Unknown
We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.|Omar Nelson Bradley
For centuries now we've tried everything else; the power of wealth, of mighty armies and navies, machinations of diplomats. All have failed. Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace. Peace on earth to men of good will.|Richard Cardinal Cushing
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.|Albert Einstein
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.|Dwight D. Eisenhower
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.|Gersonides
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.|William Hazlitt
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.|Pope John XXIII
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.|John F. Kennedy
If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.|Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.|Julius K. Nyerere
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.|Robert M. Persig
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.|Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.|Thomason
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.|Author Unknown
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.|Author Unknown
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.|Richard M. DeVos
When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.|Blake
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.|Charles Peguy
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.|John Ruskin
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.|Saint Augustine
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.|Charles de Gaulle
Trifles go to make perfection,/And perfection is no trifle.|Michelangelo Buonarroti
Plodding wins the race.|Aesop
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"|Richard M. DeVos
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.|George Eliot
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.|Ernest Hello
Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.|Napoleon Hill
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?|Elbert Hubbard
The falling drops at last will wear the stone.|Lucretius
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.|Florence Scovel Shinn
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.|Mark Twain
If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.|Author Unknown
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.|Henry Ward Beecher
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.|Victor Cousin
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.|Fontenelle
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.|William James
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.|Henry Miller
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.|Charles Peguy
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.|Henry David Thoreau
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.|Voltaire
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.|Author Unknown
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.|Margaret Lowenfeld
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.|Brian Sutton-Smith
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.|Tyron Edwards
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.|James Goldsmith
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.|Madame de Lambert
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.|Seneca
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.|Robert Southey
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.|Kahlil Gibran
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?|Robert Cecil Day Lewis
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.|Wallace Stevens
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.|Booker T. Washington
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.|Robert Frost
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.|Charles Baudelaire
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.|William E. Channing
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.|T. S. Eliot
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.|T. S. Eliot
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.|Zona Gale
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.|Randall Jarrell
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.|John F. Kennedy
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.|Michel de Montaigne
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.|Plato
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.|Frederick William Robertson
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.|L. Schefer
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.|Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.|Henry David Thoreau
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.|Voltaire
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.|William Carlos Williams
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.|Jean Anouilh
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.|Berenson
Most joyful the Poet be;/It is through him that all men see.|William E. Channing
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.|William Faulkner
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.|Horace
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.|Stefan Kanfer
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.|James Russell Lowell
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.|Alfred De Musset
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.|Rainer Maria Rilke
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.|George Santayana
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.|Karl Shapiro
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?|B. F. Skinner
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.|Hippilyte Taine
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.|Henry David Thoreau
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.|Walt Whitman
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.|William Carlos Williams
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.|Author Unknown
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.|Carl Jung
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.|Learned Hand
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. It is easier to admire hard work if you don't do it.|Author Unknown
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.|Richard E. Byrd
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.|C. M. Cox
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.|Jan Ehrenwald.
Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.|Howard Gardner
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.|Carl Jung
There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.|Orison Swett Marden
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.|Ashley Montagu
At the Cole School, where they had community singing every morning the teacher noticed that Jack London remained silent. She asked him why. He replied that she didn't know how to sing, that she would spoil his voice because she flatted. The teacher dispatched him to the principal to be punished. The principal sent him back with a note saying that he could be excused, but that he would have to write a composition each morning for fifteen minutes of singing. Jack ascribes his ability to write a thousand words every morning to the habit formed in this class.|Irving Stone
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.|John Christian Bovee
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.|G. K. Chesterton
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.|Benjamin Franklin
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.|Greek
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.|Johnson
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.|Sidney Madwed
There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.|Seneca
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.|John Steinbeck
True poverty does not come from God.|Yiddish Proverb
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.|Author Unknown
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.|Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.|C. C. Colton
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.|Erich Fromm
The measure of a man is what he does with power.|Pittacus
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.|Seneca
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.|Sir Francis Bacon
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.|C. C. Colton
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.|James Goldsmith
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.|Johnson
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.|Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.|W. Somerset Maugham
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.|Alec Waugh
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.|Phillips Brooks
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.|Kahlil Gibran
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.|Soren Kierkegaard
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below./Words without thoughts never to heaven go.|William Shakespeare
Prayer doesn't change things. It changes people and they change things.|Author Unknown
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.|Andre Bernard Buruch
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.|Duchess de Abrantes
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.|Albert Einstein
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.|Frederick The Great
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.|Francis Jeffrey
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."|Macduff
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.|Edward R. Murrow
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.|Sir Philip Sidney
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.|Johann Georg Zimmermann
Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.|Author Unknown
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.|Benjamin Franklin
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.|Orison Swett Marden
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.|Jean De La Bruyere
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.|Lord Chesterfield
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.|Eric Hoffer
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.|Blaise Pascal
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.|William Shakespeare
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.|Author Unknown
Work is victory.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.|Zig Ziglar
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.|Henry Bolingbroke
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.|Robert Cecil
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.|C. C. Colton
Pride the first peer and president of hell.|Daniel Defoe
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.|Benjamin Franklin
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.|Johnson
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.|Reinhold Niebuhr
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.|Frederick Saunders
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw.|South
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.|Bishop Taylor
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.|Young
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.|Confucius
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.|George Lorimer
Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait.|The William Feather Magazine
There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will.|Grenville Kleiser
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.|Young
The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.|Author Unknown
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.|John Christian Bovee
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.|Samuel Butler
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.|C. C. Colton
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.|Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.|Blaise Pascal
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.|Simms
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.|Thomas Fuller
Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish.|Salter
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.|Lord Chesterfield
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.|Charles Simmons
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.|James Burgh
Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is adversity.|Plutarch
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.|Sophocles
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.|Miguel de Cervantes
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.|D. March
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.|South
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.|Thomas Carlyle
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.|Robert Frost
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.|Friedrich Nietzsche
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.|George Washington
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.|William A. Foster
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.|C. C. Colton
In false quarrels there is no true valor.|William Shakespeare
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.|Sir Francis Bacon
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.|Albert Einstein
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.|Claude Levi-Strauss
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.|Thomas Paine
Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.|Thomas J. Watson
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.|Author Unknown
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.|Author Unknown
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.|R. W. Alger
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.|Miguel De Cervantes
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.|Samuel Johnson
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.|Michel de Montaigne
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.|James Ramsey
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.|Simms
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.|Jonathan Swift
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.|Henry Peter Brougham
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.|Rufus Choate
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.|Christopher Dawson
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.|Francois de Fenelon
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.|James Goldsmith
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.|Johnson
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.|Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.|Francis Quarles
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.|Sterne
Analysis kills spontaneity.|Henri-Frederic Amiel
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.|Swami Brahnmananda
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.|G. K. Chesterton
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.|Clarence Darrow
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.|Norman Douglas
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.|Margaret Fuller
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.|Erich Gutkind
Live truth instead of professing it.|Elbert Hubbard
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.|William James
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.|Thomas Jefferson
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.|Martin Luther King Jr.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.|James Russell Lowell
The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.|Menius
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.|Titus Plautus
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.|Thomas Brackett Reed
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.|Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a good side to every situation.|David Schwartz
Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!|Harold Sherman
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.|Henry David Thoreau
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.|Alfred North Whitehead
If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.|Author Unknown
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.|Henry Bolingbroke
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.|Jeremy Collier
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.|Henry Fielding
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.|Luther
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.|Austin O'Malley
Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.|James Ramsey
Strong reasons make strong actions.|William Shakespeare
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.|Jeremy Taylor
To regret deeply is to live afresh.|Henry David Thoreau
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.|Albert Schweitzer
A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.|Hosea Ballou
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.|John Dewey
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.|Jean Guehenno
I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.|Thomas Jefferson
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.|Michel de Montaigne
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.|George Santayana
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.|A. J. Toynbee
There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.|Author Unknown
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.|Author Unknown
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.|C. C. Colton
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.|Jacobi
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.|M. R. Vincent
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.|Mole
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.|South
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.|Thomas Carlyle
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.|Tyron Edwards
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.|Madame Guizot
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.|Rudyard Kipling
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.|Jean-Paul Sartre
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.|A. J. Toynbee
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.|Author Unknown
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.|J. W. Alexander
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.|G. Macdonald
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.|Harvey Firestone
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?|Alfred A. Montapert
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.|William Shakespeare
God's mill grinds slow but sure.|Herbert
Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.|Voltaire
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.|John Milton
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.|E. Atkinson
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.|Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.|Bonnell
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.|Richard Burton
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.|Dick Gregory
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.|Johnson
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.|Seneca
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.|Socrates
To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness.|H. L. Wayland
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.|Sydney Smith
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.|Calvin Coolidge
Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.|Persian
There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.|Samuel Butler
Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.|Alfred A. Montapert
If the world were so organized that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone's self-interest would have to be served.|Author Unknown
Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.|Herman Melville
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.|Epicurus
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.|Lao-Tzu
He is richest who is content with the least.|Socrates
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.|Isaac Asimov
Art and science have their meeting point in method.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Science is but the statement of truth found out.|Coley
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.|Albert Einstein
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.|Albert Einstein
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.|R. Buckminster Fuller
If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Solutions- The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.|Latin
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.|Isaac Newton
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.|Richard Osler
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.|Lawrence J. Peters
Human science is an uncertain guess.|Edward G. Prior
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.|Bertrand Russell
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs.|Saturday Review
Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.|Stanilaus
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.|Henry David Thoreau
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.|Max Weber
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.|Author Unknown
The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.|H. Stanley Judd
He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.|Hunter
Who to himself is law, no law doth need.|Arthur Chapman
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.|Smiles
To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.|Jo Coudert
It is a very serious duty, perhaps of all duties the most serious, to look into one's own character and conduct, and accurately read one's own heart. It is virtually looking into eternity, and all its vast and solemn realities, which must appear delightful or awful, according as the heart appears to be conformed or not conform to God.|Emmons
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.|Thaddeus Golas
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.|Krishnamarti
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?|Jackie Mason
Live to live and you will learn to live|Portuguese Proverb
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.|Sir W. Temple
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.|Author Unknown
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.|Geoffrey F. Abert
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.|Buddha
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.|Albert Einstein
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.|William Hazlitt
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.|Eric Hoffer
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.|Abraham Lincoln
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.|Dr. Karl A. Menninger
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.|Friedrich Nietzsche
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.|Vida D. Scudder
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.|Josh Billings
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.|U Thant
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.|Mark Twain
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.|Author Unknown
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.|Henry Ward Beecher
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.|Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.|Chinese Proverb
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.|Henry Ford
Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.|James Gordon Gilkey
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.|Aldous Huxley
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.|Robert J. McKain
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.|Friedrich Nietzsche
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.|Will Rogers
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.|Seneca
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.|Samuel Smiles
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.|Vauvenargues
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.|Author Unknown
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.|Author Unknown
To save time is to lengthen life.|Author Unknown
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.|George D. Prentice
Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.|Johann Georg Zimmermann
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.|Sir Winston Churchill
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.|Hannah More
A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.|Saadi
Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.|Basil
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.|Bertrand Russell
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.|Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavour
Trust: Just as you would not want to do business with someone you can't trust, this law simply stated is: When you can completely trust the process of the universe and life, you will be supplied abundantly and you will be able to make your life work just the way you want it. And the trust you give and have must be 100% or it is zero. It cannot be given under one condition and not under another. There are many things we trust with our lives and have no concern about. Such as: the sun will come up every day; the law of gravity works all the time; the pilot who pilots the plane we fly on, is competent; our garbage is picked up on certain days. If we could not trust the things we take for granted will occur without any effort on our part, the fear for our well being would be so great we would not be able to enjoy our lives. Can you imagine what the world would be like, if we could not trust the food we buy, the water we drink or that the people we depend on would not manipulate or harm us? But the only way we can expect others to trust us is, we need to be trustworthy ourselves, and especially to ourselves. Unfortunately, many people don't trust themselves and the judgments and decisions they make. Therefore, they experience disharmony with their lives and their world.|Sidney Madwed
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.|Azel Backus
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.|Jeremy Collier
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.|Clarence Day
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.|Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The only atheism is the denial of truth.|Arthur Lynch
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.|Charles Richter
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.|George Bernard Shaw
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.|Richard Whately
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.|James M. Barrie
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.|G. K. Chesterton
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.|Albert Einstein
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.|Josiah Gilbert Holland
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.|Krishnamurti
Folks never understand the folks they hate.|James Russell Lowell
The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.|Dogen Zenji
You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.|Sidney Madwed
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.|William Shakespeare
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.|Euell Gibbons
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.|Thomas H. Huxley
Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value.|Sidney Madwed
Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it.|Sidney Madwed
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.|Thomas Paine
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.|Ignazio Silone
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.|Lin Yutang
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.|Author Unknown
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.|Samuel Butler
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.|John Churton Collins
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.|Alice Thomas Ellis
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.|Arthur Helps
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.|Alexander Pope
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.|Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.|George Sands
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.|George Washington
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.|Confucius
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.|Cardinal John Newman
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.|Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.|South
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.|Senator Homer T. Bone
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.|General Smedley Butler
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.|Eugene V. Debs
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.|Albert Einstein
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.|Dwight D. Eisenhower
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.|Frederick The Great
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity.|Dag Hammarskj÷ld
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s|Elbert Hubbard
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.|Thomas Jefferson
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.|John F. Kennedy
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.|Niccolo Machiavelli
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.|Margaret Mead
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.|Fridjof Nansen
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.|Pythagoras
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.|William Tecumseh Sherman
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.|U Thant
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.|Oscar Wilde
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."|Author Unknown
We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.|Author Unknown
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.|Arabic
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.|Rabbi Ben-Azai
People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to the Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer.|Frederika Bremer
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.|Robert Cecil
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.|Robert Collier
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.|Richard T. Ely
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.|Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.|R. D. Hitchcock
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.|Abraham Lincoln
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.|Alfred A. Montapert
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.|Francis Quarles
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.|Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.|William Shakespeare
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.|Henry David Thoreau
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.|Oscar Wilde
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.|Author Unknown
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.|Author Unknown
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.|Sir Francis Bacon
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.|Miguel De Cervantes
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.|C. C. Colton
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.|Norman Douglas
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.|Epictetus
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,|Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.|Hermann Hesse
Everyone is wise until he speaks.|Irish Proverb
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.|Joseph Wood Krutch
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.|Latin
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.|Orison Swett Marden
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.|Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.|Bible
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.|Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.|Seneca
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.|Samuel Smiles
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.|Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.|Publilius Syrus
Water is the only drink for a wise man.|Henry David Thoreau
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.|Henry David Thoreau
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.|Voltaire
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.|Author Unknown
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.|Author Unknown
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.|Author Unknown
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.|Author Unknown
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.|South
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.|Overlung
By words the mind is winged.|Aristophanes
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.|Frederika Bremer
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.|Chazal
Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."|Confucius
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.|Anatole France
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.|Eric Hoffer
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.|Unknown
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.|Johann Kaspar Lavater
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.|Sidney Madwed
Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.|Cardinal John Newman
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.|Plutarch
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.|Earl of Roscommon
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.|William Shakespeare
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.|Edward Thorndike
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.|Noah Webster
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.|Author Unknown
One thing you can give and still keep is your word.|Author Unknown
The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.|Author Unknown
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.|Thomas A. Buckner
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.|Dale Carnegie
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.|Eugene Delacroix
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.|Benjamin Franklin
Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.|Elbert Hubbard
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognized them.|Ann Landers
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.|Napoleon
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.|Charles M. Schwab
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.|Henry David Thoreau
Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.|Author Unknown
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.|Author Unknown
All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.|Dale Carnegie
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.|John Jay Chapman
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.|Henry Ford
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.|Hasidic Saying
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.|Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.|Ovid
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.|Josh Billings
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.|Author Unknown
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.|Author Unknown
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.|Author Unknown
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.|Seneca
Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want.|Author Unknown
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.|Michel de Montaigne
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.|George S. Arundale
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.|Andrew Carnegie
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.|Bruce Catton
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.|Benjamin Disraeli
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.|Erich Fromm
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.|George Gurdjieff
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.|Tom Hopkins
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.|Sidney Madwed
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.|Mark Rutherford
We know what we are, but not what we may be.|William Shakespeare
Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.|Lord Tennyson
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.|Author Unknown
Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.|Author Unknown
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.|Harry Emerson Fosdick
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.|Thomas Aquinas
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.|Rainer Maria Rilke
No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.|Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.|Johann Von Schiller
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.|Richard Bach
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.|George Bernard Shaw
He is great who confers the most benefits.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.|Woodrow Wilson
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.|Tom Blair
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.|Cato
The unspoken word never does harm.|Kossuth
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.|Pythagoras
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.|Alford
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.|Robert Collier
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.|Albert Einstein
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.|John Gaule
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.|Hans Hofmann
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.|John Macy
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.|Norman Vincent Peale
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.|Henry David Thoreau
Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.|Brendan Francis
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.|Elbert Hubbard
But he who never sins can little boast / Compared to him who goes and sins no more.|N. P. Willis
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.|Tillotson
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.|Boerhaave
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.|Tyron Edwards
There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.|Bishop Hall
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.|Moliere
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.|Bernard Joseph Saurin
How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!|Sterne
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.|Johann Kaspar Lavater
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.|Johann Kaspar Lavater
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.|Joseph Addison
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.|C. C. Colton
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.|Thomas Fuller
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.|John Locke
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.|Rule of Life
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.|Joseph Addison
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.|Robert Cecil
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.|Percival
To revive sorrow is cruel.|Sophocles
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.|Ausonius
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.|Henry Ward Beecher
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.|Nelson Boswell
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.|Charles Buxton
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.|Dale Carnegie
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.|Anton Chekhov
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.|C. C. Colton
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do, so long as what they want isn't dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsociable or obviously impossible. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't.|James G. Cozzens
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.|Benjamin Disraeli
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.|Harvey Firestone
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?|Brendan Francis
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.|J. B. S. Haldane
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.|Josiah Gilbert Holland
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.|Elbert Hubbard
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.|Pete Johnson
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.|Helen Keller
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.|Abraham Lincoln
To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.|Sidney Madwed
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.|Orison Swett Marden
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say "amen" to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.|Orison Swett Marden
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.|Robert Montgomery
One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.|Josephine Preston Peabody
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.|Diana Rankin
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out how to do it.|Theodore Roosevelt
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.|David Sarnoff
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.|George Bernard Shaw
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.|Samuel Smiles
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.|Clement Stone
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.|Hendrik W. Van Loon
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.|Thomas J. Watson
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.|Tennessee Williams
Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.|Author Unknown
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.|Author Unknown
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.|Author Unknown
Success isn't necessarily permanent - but neither is failure.|Author Unknown
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.|Author Unknown
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."|Author Unknown
The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.|Author Unknown
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.|Author Unknown
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.|Edward Dahlberg
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.|Jose Marti
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.|Marcel Proust
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.|Author Unknown
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.|from Sydney Smith
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.|William Cowper
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.|Plato
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.|Francis Quarles
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.|Joseph Addison
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.|Henry Fielding
Good taste is the flower of good sense.|A. Poincelot
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.|Jack Holland
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.|Henry B. Adams
You teach best what you most need to learn.|Richard Bach
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.|Howard Crosby
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.|Martin Heidegger
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.|Carl Jung
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.|Michel de Montaigne
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.|Frederick William Robertson
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.|Oscar Wilde
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.|Learned Hand
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.|Charles Buxton
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.|Washington Irving
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.|A. Bronson Alcott
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.|Baudjuin
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts; they are forever influencing the opinions and destinies of men.|John Christian Bovee
As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.|Buddha
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectually, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly. Intellectual force is a principal element of the soul's life, and should be proposed by every man as the principal end of his being.|William E. Channing
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.|Rene Descartes
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.|Havelock Ellis
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.|Martin H. Fischer
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.|Robert Henri
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.|William James
The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing-- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.|John Keats
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.|Stanislaw J. Lec
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.|Mackay
Thoughts are funny little things,/They can make paupers or make kings.|Sidney Madwed
The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets.|Sidney Madwed
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.|Alfred A. Montapert
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.|C. H. Parkhurst
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.|Plato
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.|Albert Schweitzer
God is a thing that thinks.|Baruch Spinoza
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.|Henry David Thoreau
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.|Paul Valery
All grand thoughts come from the heart.|Vauvenargues
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.|Author Unknown
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.|Author Unknown
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.|Author Unknown
The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.|Author Unknown
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.|Author Unknown
The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.|Author Unknown
"Careful with fire" is good advice we know./"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.|William Carleton
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.|George Washington
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.|Henry Ward Beecher
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
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.|J. William Galbraith
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.|John Oliver Hobbes
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.|Sidney Madwed
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.|Hugh Prather
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.|Madame Swetchine
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.|Alvin Toffler
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both|Author Unknown
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids|Aristotle
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.|Henry Ward Beecher
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.|Norman Douglas
Self-trust is the essence of heroism|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity|John Ballantine Gough
A man's character is his guardian divinity.|Heraclitus
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.|John Howe
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved.|William James
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.|Grenville Kleiser
They are slaves who fear to speak,/For the fallen and the weak.|James Russell Lowell
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work|Orison Swett Marden
A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.|Jack Miner
Character is much easier kept than recovered.|Thomas Paine
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.|R. C. Samsel
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.|Samuel Smiles
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.|Henry David Thoreau
Nothing endures but personal qualities.|Walt Whitman
If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.|Author Unknown
The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.|Author Unknown
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted|Author Unknown
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.|Author Unknown
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.|Henry Fielding
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.|Horace Mann
We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.|Madame Swetchine
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.|Thomas Carlyle
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.|Thomas Fuller
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.|William Shakespeare
Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.|Author Unknown
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.|O. A. Battista
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.|Black Elk
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow - the wholesome warmth necessary to make the heart-blood circulate healthily and freely; unhappiness - the chilling pressure which produces here an inflammation, there an excrescence and worst, of all, "the mind's green and yellow sickness" - ill temper.|Ann E. Bray
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.|Charles Buxton
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.|Marcelene Cox
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.|Isadora Duncan
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.|Francois de Fenelon
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.|Sigmund Freud
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.|Graham Greene
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.|Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children|Mary Howitt
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.|Randall Jarrell
Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.|Louis Kaplan
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.|Rudyard Kipling
In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.|Eda J. Le Shan
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.|Basil W. Maturin
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him|Clark Mousakas
The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.|Maria Montessori
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.|Austin O'Malley
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it|Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.|Gypsy Smith
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.|Benjamin Spock
A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."|Charles B. Vaughan
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.|Author Unknown
Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.|Richard Bach
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.|Abbie M. Dale
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to your universe is that you can choose.|Carl Frederick
He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.|J. Hawes
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.|J. Martin Kohe
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.|Salvador De Madriaga
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.|Alfred A. Montapert
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.|Earl Nightingale
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.|Muriel Rukeyser
When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.|Charles A. Stoddard
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.|Harry S Truman
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.|Author Unknown
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.|Author Unknown
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing|Author Unknown
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.|Mack R. Douglas
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is|Samuel Butler
"Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.|Austin Farrar
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.|Persian Proverb
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.|C. E. Stowe
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.|Author Unknown
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.|Author Unknown
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.|Atwell
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?|Bruce Burton
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.|Ernest Dimnet
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.|Ernest Hello
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.|John Locke
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others|Michel de Montaigne
Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.|Leo Rosten
You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.|Author Unknown
To compare is not to improve.|Field Marshall John French
He who feels no compassion will become insane.|Hasidic Saying
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.|Haniel Long
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially.|John Davy
The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.|Author Unknown
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.|Andrew Carnegie
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.|John Haggai
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.|Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.|John McDonald
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.|Nido Qubein
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.|Francis Beaumont
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.|Johnson
If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.|Robert J. Ringer
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.|Nathaniel Brandon
Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you are in conflict with yourself.|Tom Hopkins
All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.|Henry Ford
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity|Eric Hoffer
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.|David Riesman
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.|Joseph Addison
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.|William E. Channing
Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.|Arthur Phelps
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.|Seneca
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.|Taylor
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.|Author Unknown
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.|Author Unknown
"It happens to each according to his consciousness," is the Law of Consciousness.|L. S. Barksdale
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.|William James
Consciousness of our powers augments them.|Vauvenargues
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.|John Dewey
Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.|Author Unknown
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.|Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.|Kahlil Gibran
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."|Halford E. Luccock
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.|Plutarch
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.|Socrates
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.|George Woodberry
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.|Author Unknown
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.|Claude M. Bristol
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.|Dwight D. Eisenhower
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.|Napoleon Hill
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.|Bertrand Russell
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.|Charles Dudley
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.|Aristotle
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance|Bruce Barton
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.|James F. Clarke
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.|David Ben-Gurion
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.|Sheldon Kopp
Courage in danger is half the battle.|Titus Plautus
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.|Judith Rossner
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.|Seneca
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.|Whitheead
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.|Author Unknown
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.|Queen Elizabeth
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.|Edward Albee
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.|Dorothea Brande
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.|Norman Douglas
An idea is a feat of association.|Robert Frost
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.|S. I. Hayakawa
You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty.|Eric Hoffer
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place|Carl Jung