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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
--  Isaac Asimov

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.
--  Abraham Lincoln

One of the biggest things I've learned is that I don't always
have to be right.
--  Jeffrey B. Swartz, Pres.& CEO, Timberland, Co

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather
than what they are.
--  Ara Parasheghian

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
--  Robert E. Lee

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
--  John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save
the few who are rich.
--  John F. Kennedy

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
-- Donald R. Perry

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to
be gentle and kind.
--  Stephen Morrissey

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
--  John F. Kennedy

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that
age brings wisdom.
--  H. L. Mencken

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while
he gets to know something.
--  Wilson Mizner

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be
looking.
--  H. L. Mencken

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the
history of the world...or to make it the last.
--  John F. Kennedy

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off the goal.
--  Hannah More

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
--  John Morley

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
--  Robert F. Kennedy

In the long run we are all dead.
--  John Maynard Keynes

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
--  Alexander Hamilton

War will cease when men refuse to fight.
--  Fridtjof Hansen

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just
discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
--  Sydney Harris

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have
always been times like these.
--  Paul Harvey

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
--  William Hazlitt

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
--  Hitopadesa

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
--  Oscar Wilde

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people
who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
--  Albert Einstein

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
--  Henri L. Bergson

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
--  Tony Buzan

The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost.
There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable
punishment for bad.  Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to
earn good wages from Destiny.
--  Fu Wu Ming

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:  It goes on.
--  Robert Frost

To succeed in life, you need two things ignorance and confidence.
--  Mark Twain

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
--  Thomas A. Edison

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
--  Errol Flynn

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
--  Henry Ford

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
--  Benjamin Franklin

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
--  Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
--  Sigmund Freud

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
--  Athol Fugard

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree.
It's what you do with your life that counts.
--  Millard Fuller

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
--  Stephen Covey

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
--  Miguel de Cervantes

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take
the helm.
--  Henrik Ibsen

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
--  Robert G. Ingersoll

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we
speak.
--  Epictetus

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
--  Desiderius Erasmus

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
--  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
--  Montaigne

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly
recognizes genius.
--  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say.
--  Will Durant

My grandpa told me to remember two things in life.
Look out for Number One, and remember your number.
--  Orville Cogswell

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
--  Albert Einstein

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
and the second half by our children.
--  Clarence Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
--  Clarence Darrow

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every
effort to teach them good manners.
--  Author Unknown

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
--  Michael Jordan

Too much agreement kills the chat.
--  Eldridge Cleaver

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
--  Kahlil Gibran

Here's the thing about luck. You don't know if it's good or bad until
you have some perspective.
--  Alice Hoffman

Low self-esteem is like driving through life
with your hand-brake on.
--  Maxwell Maltz

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is
a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are
a vegetarian.
--  Dennis Wholey

Don't attribute to malice that which can be readily explained by
stupidity.
--  Slocum's Razor

Pessimism never won any battles.
--  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and
they will show themselves great.
--  Ralph Waldo Emerson

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
--  Errol Flynn

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear
three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to
have.
--  Edward Everett Hale

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic.
--  Arthur C. Clarke

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
--  Eldridge Cleaver

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
--  Confucius

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
--  Charles Caleb Colton

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
--  Confucius

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
--  Margaret Oliphant

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no
one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't
have what it takes.
--  Clare Boothe Luce

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
--  Rose Kennedy

Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.
--  Jacob Ghitis

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat,
something to drink and somebody to love you.
-- Brendan Behan

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
--  Otto von Bismarck

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
--  Dudley Field Malone

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.  That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut.
--   Ernest Hemmingway

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
-- Louise Beal

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having
children; life is the other way around.
--  David Lodge

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
--  Carl Bard

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build
as if the sand were stone.
--  Jorge Luis Borges

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be
entirely uneducated.
--  Alec Bourne

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity,
it should end there.
--  Clare Boothe Luce

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we
continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our
servant may prove to be our executioner.
--  General Omar Bradley

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity
to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth.  The young
man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of
the strongest elements of success.
--  Orison Swett Marden

Character is easier kept than recovered.
--  Author Unknown

Success is to be measured, not so much by the position that one
has reached in life, as by the obstacles that one has overcome
while trying to succeed.
--  Booker T. Washington

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving
for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
--  Thomas Carlyle

How many times in our lives, have we absolutely known that something
was a certain way, only to discover later that what we believed to be
true ... was not??
--  Author Unknown

Never be afraid to try something new.  Remember, amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.
--  Author Unknown

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow
by evading it today.
--  Abraham Lincoln

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.
--  John Allston

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.
--  Washington Irving

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart;
for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.
--  Author Unknown

The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your
emotional attachment to that opinion.
--  Author Unknown

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth
if you lost all your money.
-- Author Unknown

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.  The minute it crops up, all our
irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
--  Mark Twain

One must never be in a hurry to end a day;
there are too few of them in a lifetime.
--  Author Unknown

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years,
that minute he begins to be old.
--  William James

When you're prepared, you're more confident.
When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.
-- Fred Couples

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small
things brought together.
--  Vincent Van Gogh

The less routine the more life.
--  Amos Bronson Alcott

Any fact facing us is not important as our attitude toward
it, for that determines our success or failure.
--  Norman Vincent Peale

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those
who prepare for it today.
--  Author Unknown

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--  Lord Acton

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
--  Henry B. Adams.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
-- Alfred Adler

It's so hard when I have to,
and so easy when I want to.
-- Sondra Anice Barnes

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
-- Publilius Syrus

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
-- Izaak Walton

A man's what he thinks about all day long.
-- Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Fortune is like the market,
where, many times,
if you can stay a little,
the price will fall.
-- Francis Bacon

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
--  Sophocles

It makes a difference whose ox is gored.
--  Martin Luther

When neither their property nor their honor is touched,
the majority of men live content.
--  Niccolo Machiavelli

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
--  Leonardo da Vinci

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life
is the source from which self-respect springs.
-- Joan Didion

Whatever games are played with us,
we must play no games with ourselves.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought.
-- Basho

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
--  Karen Ravn

Give no time to finding fault or criticism.
--  Marvin J. Ashton

The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
-- Ezra Taft Benson

Well done is better than well said.
--  Gwen Haymore

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only
imagine that they do.
--  Boyd K. Packer

You cannot hide the heart when the mouth is open.
--  Brigham Young

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
--  Author Unknown

Life contains but two tragedies, one is not to get your
heart's desire; the other is get it.
--Socrates

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could
program a computer to be moral.
 --Samuel P. Ginder in Washington Post

Others' follies teach us not, nor much their wisdom teaches;
and most, of sterling worth, is what our own experience
preaches.
 --Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you aren't failing you're standards aren't high.
--Tom Selleck

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself
to be a fool.
--  William Shakespeare

It is easier to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
--  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Pleasant times are often missed because we are talking so much
when we should be listening.
--  Author Unknown

Paper is always strongest at the perforations.
-- Corry

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop
giving them things.
-- Norman Douglas

Do not resent growing old.  Many are denied the privilege
--  Author Unknown

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
-- Will Rogers

It takes strength to love,
It takes courage to be loved.
--  Author Unknown

Noise proves nothing--often a hen who has merely laid an
egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
---Mark Twain

Do not wait for the last judgment.  It takes place every day.
--  Camus

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
-- Tony Buzan

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a
gloom of clouds...
--  Author Unknown

Don't be humble; ...you are not that great.
-- Golda Meir

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through
the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there
when the good luck comes --and is ready to receive it.
-- Robert Collier

Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promised.
--Harvey MacKay

One day the faithful will have it all.
--Neal A. Maxwell

The best thing about the future
is that it comes only one day at a time.
--  Abraham Lincoln

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you
stop making any alibi's, that's the day you start the journey to the top.
--  Author Unknown

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
--Seneca

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
--  Author Unknown

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
--Proverbs

Always reach for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land
among stars.
--  Author Unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.
That's why it is called the present. Seize the day!!"
--Jay Skeldon

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible,
but also for what we do not do.
--Moliere

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
 but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein

It is better to be known by six people for something your proud
of than by sixty million for something you're not....
--Albert Brook

To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
--Oscar Wilde

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that
no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
--Goethe

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender.
--  Author Unknown

Beautiful young people are acts of nature,
but beautiful old people are works of art.
--  Author Unknown

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something
stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we
might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
--Earl Nightingale

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how
far one can go.
--T. S. Eliot

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for
it, but what they become by it.
--John Ruskin

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no
man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't know where you are going,
how will you know when you get there?
--  Author Unknown

Loving relationships don't just happen,
they have to  grow.
--  Author Unknown

You are only young once, and if you work it right,
once is enough.
-- Joe E. Lewis

Do not do what you would undo if caught.
-- Leah Arendt

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained.
To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
-- James Carse

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what
little chance you have of trying to change others.
--  Author Unknown

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one
can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
--  Author Unknown

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
--  Mark Twain

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy
is that one often comes from a strong will,
and the other from a strong won't.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

How can we accept another to keep our secret
if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
-- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Remember, a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not
what ships are built for.
--  Author Unknown

Mankind must put an end to war
or war will put an end to mankind.
-- John F. Kennedy

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
--  Thomas Sprat

Do not do what you would undo if caught.
-- Leah Arendt

There are 3 kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those
who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
--  Author Unknown

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits
to grow sharper.
-- Eden Phillpotts

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly
and they will show themselves great.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your
head has figured it out.
-- Michael Burke

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never
lose sight of your goal.  Prepare yourself in every way you can
by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience,
so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
-- Mario Andretti

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts
-- Author Unknown

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all
careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles
and countless defeats.  Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens
your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your
ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-
arms forcing you to become better… or quit.  Each rebuff is an
opportunity to move forward;  turn away from them, avoid them,
and you throw away your future.
-- Og Mandino

Kindness is more than deeds.
It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch.
It is anything that lifts another person.
-- C. Neil Strait

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough,
as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
-- Lord Chesterfield

Don't be afraid to live
Or you will watch life slip away
--  Author Unknown

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level,
then beat you experience.
--  Author Unknown

Life is 10 percent what you make it and
90 percent how you take it.
-- Irving Berlin

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life...
It goes on.
--  Robert Frost

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
--Robert Frost

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin,
but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had
to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be
served, a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin. At last it dawned
on me that these obstacles were my life.
-- Bette Howland