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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” -Aristotle

“The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest” -William Dean Howells

“Respect is love in plain clothes.” -Frankie Byrne

“I don’t want to describe the hate mail we’ve gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president)” -Alma Powell

“Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they’ll be called on to do before the next chance.” -Lois McMaster Bujold

“A homeless person said, ‘I haven’t had anything to eat for two days.’ I said, ‘I wish I had your willpower.'” -Roy Chubby Brown

“Success is a great deodorant.” -Elizabeth Taylor

“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.” -C. S. Lewis

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.” -Henri Alban-Fournier

“If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.” -La Rochefoucauld

“I love to go to Washington — if only to be near my money.” -Bob Hope

“I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.” -Richard Phillips Feynman

“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“For I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength. ” -Philippians 4:13

“We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.” -Unknown

“Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance and keep afloat.” -Eric Hoffer

“There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” -Henry Ford

“I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.” -W. Somerset Maugham

“Power tires only those who do not have it.” -Giulio Andreotti

“Great necessities call forth great leaders.” -Abigail Adams

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.” -St. Augustine

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.” -Rene Descartes

“A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” -Robert Hughes

“This is no time to make new enemies.” -Voltaire

“Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don�t know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.” -George E. Allen

“Failure is the mother of success” -Chinese proverb

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” -Tony Robbins

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” -Benjamin Franklin

“Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction. ” -Matthew Burton

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” -Garrison Keillor

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.” -Elbert Hubbard

“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” -Maxwell Maltz

“Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.” -Rosalene Glickman

“Life�s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” -Victor Marie Hugo

“Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.” -James Baldwin

“Pride, envy, avarice — these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.” -Alighieri Dante

“For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.” -Aeschylus

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” -Kimberly Johnson

“All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.” -Blaise Pascal

“All leaders are readers.” -Jim Rohn

“Character is a victory, not a gift.” -Anonymous

“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” -Thomas Carlyle

“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.” -William Ellery Channing

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” -Emo Philips

“Learning without thought is labor lost.” -Confucius

“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” -Jacob Bronowski

“In the end, the size of a man’s accomplishments can best be measured by the size of their heart. ” -Unknown

“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.” -Robert Lowell

“To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.” -Alexis Carrel

“He who does not tire, tires adversity.” -Anonymous

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.” -William Shakespeare

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” -Michael Korda

“There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.” -Christopher Morley

“For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.” -Adlai E. Stevenson

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” -Oscar Wilde

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” -Zora Neale Hurston

“Very little is needed to make a happy life.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” -Albert Einstein

“Knowledge exists to be imparted.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.” -Cuban Proverb

“Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.” -Andrew Bonar Law

“I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes. ” -Anthony Robbins

“I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” -Kahlil Gibran

“What is the worth of anything,But for the happiness ’twill bring?” -Richard Owen Cambridge

“The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true. ” -Unknown

“I’m as busy as a one-armed taxi-driver with crabs.” -Sir Les Patterson

“We can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures.” -Unknown

“The answer is in thy heart. Thee can always hear it, if thee listens for it.” -John Steinbeck

“We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” -Abraham Lincoln

“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.” -William Blake

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.” -Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise” -William Carlos Williams

“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.” -Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ” -Benjamin Franklin

“My mistakes are my life.” -Samuel Beckett

“The people who say they don�t have time to take care of themselves will soon discover they�re spending all their time being sick.” -Patricia Alexander

“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” -Kyle Chandler

“Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.” -Gordon William Allport

“Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. … the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.” -Vartan Gregorian

“If you want to win, go and meet those who lost. ” -Unknown

“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?” -Cicero

“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.” -Kevin Spacey

“Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.” -Jewish Proverb

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” -Bob Dylan

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” -William Arthur Ward

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” -James Allen

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Bambi can’t act. Bambi had major attitude.” -Treat Williams

“We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.” -W. Somerset Maugham

“There is no time like the pleasant.” -George Bergman

“A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct” -Unknown

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” -Barbara DeAngelis

“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.” -Benjamin Franklin

“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 discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” -Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.” -William Blackstone