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The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

- E.M. Gray

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

- David Lloyd George

The goal of man is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before in by eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end.

- Vivekananda

Joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as an opportunity to be of service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

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.

- Charles Caleb Colton

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

- John M. Barrie

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

- Richard Bach

People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. To put it another way: When you stop working on what it is you're trying to get and start working on YOU, only then will you get what it is you want.

- James Allen

A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.

- Richard Mitchell

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.

- Raquel Welch

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

- George Santayana

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley Download or Share

Joy and grief are never far apart.

- Robert Willmott Download or Share

Writing is a struggle against silence.

- A Quotation From Carlos Fuentes Download or Share

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty in every age of life really never grows old.

- Thoughts from Franz Kafka Download or Share

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin Download or Share

Things are seldom what they seem.

- Sir William S. Gilbert Download or Share

Sweet is a grief well ended.

- Aeschylus Download or Share

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

- Beverly Sills Download or Share

Abundance is about being rich with or without money.

- Suze Orman Download or Share

The first step to becoming is to will it.

- Mother Teresa Download or Share

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

- Brooke Astor Download or Share

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

- Jim Rohn Download or Share

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.

- Epictetus Download or Share

Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly!

- Tom Brewer Download or Share

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

- George Carlin Download or Share

A persistent strong desire pushes your goal into manifestation.

- Remez Sasson Download or Share

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy. Not gold.

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

- James Burke

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Man is a hunter, women is his game.

Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

If you want to know the value of money try to borrow some.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace to first.

For the love of money is the root of all evil.

It is a proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

Gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation his to outrage humanity.

 Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

When boasting ends there dignity begins.

What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.

- Earl Nightingale

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats a little man.

- Bernard Shaw

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

- Shakespeare

Familiarity breeds contempt.

- Mark Twain

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

- Charles F. Kettering

It is pretty hard to tell what dies bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The heart has its reasons for which reason knows nothing.

All great virtues bear the imprint of self-denial.

A wounded reputation is seldom cured.

- Bernard Shaw

They also serve who only stand and wait.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly should we walk.

We have provided for the survival of man against all enemies except his fellowmen.

Sharp wits like sharp knives to cut their owners fingers.

 - Arrowsmith

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

-Paul McCartney

A man is not poor if he can still laugh.

- Hitch Cook

Diet cure more than doctors.

-Seneca

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

- Louise Driscoll

It is the stars, the stars above us govern our conditions.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon oneself.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Disraeli *

Land itself has no value.  Value arises from labour.

- Henry George

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have of times no connection.

- W. Cowper

A reform is a correction of abuses, a revolution is a transfer of power.

- Seneca

Lack of something to feel important about, is almost the greatest tragedy a man can have.

- Arthur Morgan

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

- Lao Tsze

He is the richest who is content with the least for content is the wealth of nature.

- Socrates

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion.

- Dwight Macdonald

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.

- Goethe

To be initiated by criticism is to acknowledge it was deserved.

- Tacitus

Never spend your money before you have it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Borrowed garments never fit well.

- Franklin

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

- Don Herold

Every dog is a lion at home.

- Mark Twain

The dog that trots about finds a bone

 - Mark Twain

Let not the babbling dreams afraid our souls.

- Shakespeare

Do not disturb the sleeping dog.

- Allegri

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

- Franklin

To confess a fault freely, is the next thing to being innocent of it.

- Syrus

Yesterday is a cancelled cheque tomorrow is a promissory note, today is ready cash use it.

- Anon

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

- Charles M. Schwab

Many hands make light work.

- Gandhi Download or Share

Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine.

Alcott Download or Share

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson Download or Share

Treachery, though at first cautious in the end betrays itself.

Livy Download or Share

Blessed one the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

Sri. Sarada Devi Download or Share

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

La harpe Download or Share

Enjoy own life without comparing it what that of another.

Condorcet Download or Share

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

H.W. Beecher Download or Share

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Napoleon Download or Share

There is nothing evil save that which prevents the mind and shakes the conscience.

- St. Ambrose Download or Share

One eye-witness is more weight than ten herbs.

Plantus Download or Share

The sum of all sums is eternity.

Lucretius Download or Share

Events of great consequences often spring from trifling circumstances.

- Livy Download or Share

When we know what God is we shall be Gods ourselves.

Bernard Shaw Download or Share

The Body is the shell of the soul, and the dress he husk of that shell but the husk often tells what the kennel in.

Coleman cox Download or Share

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Machiavelli Download or Share

Books without the knowledge of life are useless for what should books teach but the art of living!

Samuel Johnson Download or Share

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Rochifocauld Download or Share

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

Lessing Download or Share

Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Schiller Download or Share

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Lavater Download or Share

Fem men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washing ton Download or Share

It is much easier to be critical than to correct.

Disraeli Download or Share

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

- Emerson Download or Share

The only deadly sins I know is cynicism.

Henry Stimson Download or Share

Noble deeds that are concealed are more esteemed.

Pascal Download or Share

Debt is the worst poverty.

Emerson Download or Share

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

- Milton Download or Share

What a day may bring a day may take away.

- Thomas Fuller Download or Share

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people for the people.

- Oscar Wilde Download or Share

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

- William Shakespeare Download or Share

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

- Beecher Download or Share

It is not the voting that is in Democracy, it is the counting.

- Tom stoppard Download or Share

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses the idea of democracy.

- Abraham Lincoln Download or Share

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

- Bovee Download or Share

Diplomacy is the art of saying nothing nicely.

- Anon Download or Share

Some people regard discipline as a chore.  For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

- Julie Andrew Download or Share

He that has learnt to obey will know how to command.

- Salon Download or Share

The discontented man finds no easy chair. 

- Franklin Download or Share

Disease is the retribution of outrage nature.

- Hosea Balloons Download or Share

No one disgrace us but ourselves.

- Holland Download or Share

Putting off an easy kind makes it hard and putting off a hard me makes it impossible.

- George Lorina Download or Share

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

- Bacon Download or Share

I cannot give you a formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.

- C.C. Colton Download or Share

A promise made in a debt unpaid.

- Robert William Download or Share

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

- Hazlitt Download or Share

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

- Gandhi

English is a funny language.  A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing.

- Jack Herbert

All wish to posses knowledge but few comparatively speaking are willing to pay the price.

- Juvenal

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

- Franklin Download or Share

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.

- Samuel Bowler Download or Share

Be your own judge and be happy.

- Gandhi Download or Share

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

- Arthur Miller Download or Share

Calamity is the test of integrity.

- Samuel Richardson Download or Share

If man will have no care for the future they will have sorrow for the present.

- VoltaireDownload or Share

A work will done must be done twice.

- Franklin Download or Share

Care killed a cat.

- Shakespeare Download or Share

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

-  Abraham Lincoln Download or Share

Every burned book enlightens the world.

- Emerson Download or Share

Drink nothing without seeking it. Sign nothing without seeing it.

- Cervantes Download or Share

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.

- S.H. Download or Share

Character is not made in a crisis. It is only exhibited.

- Robert Freeman Download or Share

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust.

- Garrison Wynn

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

- John D. Rockefeller

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

-Euripides

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Norman Schwarzkop

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

- E. Y. Harburg

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

- Marlo Morgan

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

- Albert Clarke

Marketing is merely a civilized form of warfare in which most battles are won with words, ideas and disciplined thinking.

- Albert Emery

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

- Henry Adams

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

- Dorothea Brande

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

- Maxwell Maltz

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

-Confucius

Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.

- Good Morning

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

- Oprah Winfrey

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

- Les Brown

It is a human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

-Antatole France

Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.

- Good English Thoughts by Draper L. Kaufman, Jr.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

- The Tao

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Satchel Paige

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

- Bertrand Russell

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

-Marcel Proust

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

- Elbert Hubbard

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

- Bacon

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov

If your civilization is to service, we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Great men make great mistakes.

- Karl Popper

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

- Schiller

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

- Nicholas Murray Butler

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

- George Bernard Shaw

Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success. Or are they holding you back?

- W. Clement Stone

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

- Good Thought for Today in English by Les Brown

Opportunities constantly arise in one area…that in turn ignite opportunities in other areas.

- Michael D. Eisner