Achievement

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all-time things. Winning is a habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

The secret is to become wise before you get old.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't
cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Aging

First, you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper,
then you forget to pull your zipper down.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such
a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

When old person dies, a library is lost.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

Attitude

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

To travel hopefully is better than to arriva.

Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing. The first said "I'm cutting this stone
into blocks." The second replied, "I'm on a team that's building a cathedral."

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Business

Regardless of what company you work for, never forget the most important product
you're selling is yourself.

When you dance with your customer, let him lead.

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can do neither, administer.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by
an empty desk?

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Challenges

Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a
matter of how yo view them.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Characters

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that
you won or lost, but how you played the game.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects for you.
Never excuse yourself.

If you were to sell your character, would you go for full retail, or would you go
for a bargain basement price?

You never know a man's character until you've shared a bowl of peeled shrimp with him.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Courage

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Don't be afraid to take big steps. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

What matter is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of fight in the dog.

One man with courage is majority.

"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore
for a very long time.

Criticism

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

When you judge others, you are revealing your own fears and prejudices.

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have
little time to criticize others.

Praise in public. Criticize in private.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Any fool can criticize and many of them do.

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Death

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

A thousand goodbyes come after death--the first six months of bereavement.

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude, something lie
admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

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Education

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you
educate a family.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and
I'll understand.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Enthusiasm

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be
happy is someone or something to be enthusiastic about.

A group of hundred executives were asked what makes a person successful.
Eighty percent listed enthusiasm as the most important quality.

Excellence

Excellence is never an accident.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.

Well done is better than well said.

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Failure

It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce.

Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge those who fail to try.

Forgiveness

When you have been wronged, a poor memory is your best response.

Forgive and forget. Sour grapes make for a lousy wine.

Friendship

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To have a friend, be a friend.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world togethe.

A faithful friend is a medicine of life.

Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

Friendship doubles yourjoys, and divides your sorrows.

A friend is a like a four leaf clover, hard to find but lucky to have.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will
leave footprints in your heart.

Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly.

A friend is someone who walks in when the whole world has walked out.

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Goodness and Giving

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

That best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and of love.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

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Happiness

Happiness is not an absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.

Most people are about as happy as they make their minds to be.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Happiness is an inside job.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the onw hich has been opened for us.

Honesty

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain, the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you
in the back of the head.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

When you tell the truth, you never have to worry about your lousy memory.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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Ignorance

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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Justice

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

The whole history of the world is summed up in fact that, when nations
are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just,
they are no longer strong.

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

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Kindness

Always be a little kinder than the necessary.

There are no unimportant jobs, no unimportant people, no unimportant act of kindness.

There is no experience better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show,
or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intentions.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it out.

Never let a day go without giving at least three people a compliment.

Knowledge

We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on
a beach that reaches to infinity.

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Leadership

The manager administers, the leader innovates. The manager maintains, the leader
develops. The manager relies on systems, the leader relies on people. The manager
counts on controls, the leader counts on trust. The manager does things right,
the leader does the right thing.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Life

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.

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

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans.

We only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough.

Love

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread;
remade all the time, made new.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and
good health have vanished.

Who, being loved is poor?

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Men always wants to be a woman's first love, women have more a subtle instinct,
what they like is to be a man's last romance.

For an instant, love can transform the world.

We two form a multitude.

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Marriage

Marriage is an empty box. It remains empty unless you put more than you take out.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a
bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents,
and none of the incidents as disasters.

A man and woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover
that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

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Nature

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

The earth is the mother of all creatures.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments--there are consequences.

Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee - Job 12:8

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

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Observations

When you can't change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails.

You are the same today that you'll be five years from now except for two things:
the people you meet and the books you read.

People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end.

How to make a speech: Be sincere, Be Brief, Be Seated.

Art is a man's attempt to improve on nature.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate.
When he can't afford it, and when he can.

No one ever went broke saving money.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence, the constant popularity of a dog.

Each man has a choice in life. He may approach it as a creator or critic,
a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you known nothing about.

Let your policy be quality.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

Laughter has no foreign accent.

The man with imagination is never alone.

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book - that's why we have fathers.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--
but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Opportunity

If you're looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Problems are opportunities in work clothes.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. row out to meet it.

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Parents

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

Fathers are pals nowadays because they don't have guts to be fathers.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have
the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how
much he had learned in seven years.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he's old, he will not depart from it.

A father is a banker provided by nature.

Participation

In the game of life, even the 50-yard line seats don't interest me. I came to play.

Do It! Move It! Make It Happen! No one ever sat their way to success.

Persistence

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is
more common than successful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.

The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't
hear the referee.

Never, never, never, never, never give up.

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Reality

Our thoughts determine our responses to life. We are not victims of the world.
To the extent that we control our thoughts, we control the world.

What you see is what you get - except in pre-packaged strawberries.

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Self-Concept

The display of status symbol is usually a result of low self-esteem. The self-confident
person can afford to project a modest image.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Always consider yourself a first-class citizen of the world. No one deserves
better treatment than you.

Be good to yourself. Be patient. Be kind. Be forgiving. After all, you're all you've got.

The closest we ever come to perfection is when we write our resumes'.

Send someone a telegram that reads "Congratulations." Regardless of who he is, he'll think
he's done something the past week to deserve it.

Self-Improvement

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault with himself.
Failure to hit the bulls eye is never the fault of the target. To improve
your aim - improve yourself.

Self-Reliance

Self-reliance is the greatest gift a parent can give a child.

Self-reliance is like a flashlight, no matter how dark it gets, it will help you find your way.

You are free the moment you do not look outside yourself for someone to solve your problems.

Not in time, or circumstance, but in the man lies success.

Success

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Any failure will tell you success is nothing but luck.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

The road to success is not doing one thing 100 percent better , but doing
100 things one percent better.

Behind every successful man stands a proud wife and surprised mother-in-law.

Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The true measure of success is not what you have, but what you can do without.

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Values

There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

It's hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

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Wealth

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Wealthy people miss one of life's great thrills - making the last car payment.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Work

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

More people rust out than wear out.

The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you work for someone else.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

If you work for a man, in Heaven's name work for him! If he pays you wages that
supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the
institution he represents.

Work well done is art.