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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Blood of the Martyr
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it...we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Aristotle, Ethics
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
Albert Gray
Character is often determined not by when we do what we must but by when we do what is voluntary. It is tested far more by charity than obligation. It appears not so much in what the public sees but shows itself clearer in what is done in private.
"Life is like a grindstone - whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of."
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort, even the difficult may become easy.
Bill Blackman
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce (1903-1987)
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Words are powerful things. They can make someone feel ten feet tall or two inches small. Choose your words wisely and well.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality. Then, there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality .
Albert Einstein
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your pocket.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herbert Gardner
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure.
Emilio James Trujillo
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We will fall!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire
People count the faults of those who are keeping them waiting.
French Proverb
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Some wines improve with age but only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren (1918-1978)
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. In the slums, we are the light of God's kindness to the poor. To children, to the poor, to all who suffer and are lonely, give always a happy smile. Give them not only your care but also your heart.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Good luck is a result of good work. Luck never strikes when you're oversleeping. It's a fruit of your labor.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Stephen Leacock
Hide not your talents; they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Even God doesn't plan to judge a man until the end of his days. Why should you and I?
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler (1941-
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)
Never explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
Dave Berry
A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person. This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.
Dave Berry
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