Quotations-E,F,G,H

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1. “An Eagle does not catch flies.”-Proverb.
2. “While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.” ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
3. “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.  From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."  ~Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality.
4. “What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.”  ~Friedrich Holderlin
5. "Other men live to eat, while I eat to live."-Socrates.
6. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."-Brillat.
7. "One should eat to live, not live to eat."-Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere.
8. "Man is what he eats."-Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach.
9. “We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.”-Janet Holmes à Court
10. “Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.”-Edward Abbey.
11. “Education is not for knowing more but for behaving differently.”-Ruskin
12. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”-Herbert Spencer.
13. “An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.”-Author Unknown
14. “Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.”-Wu Ting-Fung.
15. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”-Albert Einstein.
16. "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."-Laurence Peter.
17. “There is no education like adversity.”-Disraeli.
18. “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”-Robert G. Ingersoll
19. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”-Aristotle.
20. “My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”-Robert Maynard Hutchins.
21. “Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”-G.M. Trevelyan.
22. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”-George Santayana.
23. “Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”-Malcolm S. Forbes.
24. "Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man."-Swami Vivekananda.
25. “Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.  Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.  We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”-Abraham Flexner.
26. "Education is never failing light in life."-Anonymous.
27. “Education should be exercise; it has become massage.”-Martin H. Fischer.
28. “An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”-R. Baker.
29. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”-Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890
30. "Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."-Aristotle.
31. “In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.”-Michel de Montaigne.
32. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”-Edward Everett.
33. "Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school."-Albert Einstein.
34. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
35. "There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."-James T Adams.
36. "Education is the best provision for old age."-Aristotle.
37. “We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world.  The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”-Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
38. "An educated person is one who knows how to acquire everything he needs in the attainment of his main purpose in life, without violating the rights of his fellow men."-napoleon Hill.
39. "If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."-Ruby Manikan.
40. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”-Bill Beattie.
41. "In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort alone determines the results"-James Allen.
42. "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory"-Mahatma Gandhi.
43. “About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.”-Gloria Pitzer.
44. "It's better to lose your ego to the one you love, than to lose the one you have because of ego."-John Keats.
45. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”-Dale Carnegie
46. "Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going."
       - Kenneth Blanchard
47. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”-Henry David Thoreau.
48. “If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.”-Ozzy Osbourne.
49. “Neither Rama nor Pandavas wanted enemies; if you pursue Dharma, Adharma becomes your natural enemity. Only when you pursue neither Dharma nor Adharma (inaction), will you have no enemies.”-Anon
50. “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”-Baltasar Gracian.
51. “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”-African Proverb.
52. “Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.”-Andre Maurois.
53. “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”-Moshe Dayan.
54. “You have enemies?  Good.  That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”-Winston Churchill
55. "Energy is eternal delight."-William Blake.
56. “I know that there are no guarantees in life. I also know that good things rarely come about the first time around. And so my advice to anyone would be: whatever your goals, don’t give up! More important than talent, strength or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.”-Amy Grant, singer.
57. "A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."-Fuller.
58. “There are two things to aim at in life:  first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”-Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931.
59. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”-Robert Brault.
60. “Before enlightenment chopping wood carrying water. After enlightenment chopping wood carrying water.”- Zen Proverb.
61. “Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”-Pele
62. “Enthusiasm is contagious. It’s difficult to remain neutral or indifferent in the presence of a positive thinker.” – Dennis Waitley
63. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."-Winston Churchill.
64. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."-Emerson.
65. “I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.  Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad.  Otherwise what is there to defend?”-Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985.
66. “Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.”-Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970.
67. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”- Edmund Burke.
68. "Lack of money is the root of all evil."-Anonymous.
69. “Evil brings men together.”-Aristotle.
70. "Evil action arising out of personal greed and power would lead to destruction."-Nanak.
71. “One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.”  ~Moliere
72. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”-Eddie Robinson.
73. "The secret of excellence is contained in one word-'Enjoyment'. If you enjoy whatever you do, you will always excel."-Pearl S Buck.
74. "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."-Confucius.
75. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."-Aristotle.
76. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” Thomas J Watson
77. "Continuing to fill a pail after it is full, the water will be wasted. Continuing to grind an axe after it is sharp, will wear it away. Excess of sound deafens the ear. Excess of condiments deadens the taste. He who possesses moderation is lasting and enduring. Too much is always a curse, most of all in wealth."-Lao-Tze.
78.  “I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.”  - Walter Chrysler.
79. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.”-Bob Moawad.
80. “I attribute my success to this- I never gave or took any excuse.”-Florence Nightingale.
81.  "All our talents increase in using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise."-Anne Bronte.
82. “Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”-Edward Stanley.
83. “It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.”~Charles Simmons.
84.   “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him”-Aldous Huxley.
85. “The reward of suffering is experience.”-Aeschylus.
86. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”-Barry LePatner.
87. “Experience teaches only the teachable.”-Aldous Huxley.
88.  "Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence."-M K Gandhi.
89. "Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes."-Oscar Wilde.
90. "“One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.”- Norman Vincent Peale.
91.  “Do you know the difference between education and experience?  Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”-Pete Seeger.
92.  “You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.”-Stevie Wonder.                                                                                                                                              
93.  “Always listen to Experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.” - Robert Heinlein
94. "Never explain: Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it."-Victor Grayson.
95.  "If you cannot express yourself, you are already behind bars" Mbana Kaitak

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1.     "Man is read in his face."-Ben Jonson.

2.     "Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored."-Aldous Huxley.

3.     “Fear knocked at the door.  Faith answered.  And lo, no one was there.”-Author Unknown.

4.     “Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.”-David S. Muzzey.

5.     “Faith is a passionate intuition.”-William Wordsworth.

6.     “Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.”-Rabindranath Tagore.

7.     “Faith makes things possible, not easy.”-Author Unknown.

8.     “Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies.”-Mahatma Gandhi.

9.     “As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.”-Emmanuel.

10. "What is fame? An empty bubble. Gold? A transient, shining trouble."-James Grainger.

11. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt.

12.  “If you fall seven times, get up eight times.”-Proverb.

13. "The greatest glory lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."-Nelson Mandela.

14. “The only failure which lacks dignity is failure to try.”-Malcolm F MacNeil.

15. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.”-William A Ward.

16. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing you’re not growing.”- H. Stanley Judo.

17. “If you’re willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you’re willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you’ve got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”- Joseph Sugarman.

18. "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.  Courage is what counts."- Sir Winston Churchill

19. “Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure.”-William Saroyan.

20. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”-Bill Cosby.

21. “A man can fail many times, but he is not failed until he begins to blame somebody else.”-John Burroughs.

22. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”-Benjamin Franklin.

23. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”-Henry Ford.

24. “If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.”-Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

25. “I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”-Bill Cosby.

26. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.”-Anonymous.

27. “I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”-Thomas Edison.

28. “Supposing you have tried and failed again and again.  You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”-Mary Pickford.

29. “Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”-Robert Schuller.

30. “One fails forward toward success.”-Charles F. Kettering.

31. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”-Henry Ford.

32. “You always pass failure on your way to success.”-Mickey Rooney.

33. “Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it.  We learn only from failure.”-Kenneth Boudling.

34. “Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.-Robert Louis Stevenson.”

35.  “It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures.”-Author Unknown.

36. “The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”-Lloyd Jones.

37. "Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up."-Traditional Chinese Proverb.

38. “It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.”-Brian Tracy.

39. "Be civil to all, sociable to many; familiar with few."-Benjamin Franklin.

40. “There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the have-nots.”-Cervantes.

41. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” -M.K.Gandhi

42. “It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”-Mohammed Ali.

43. “A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”~John Henry Newman

44. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”-Joseph Chilton Pearce.

45. "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."-Anonymous.

46. “Fears are a mirage. It only happens to be there due to our imagination or reflections of possibilities. The nearer we get to it, the more it disappears.”-Samuel Adinoyi.

47. “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. “-Mary Manin Morrissey.

48. “Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.”-Robert Louis Stevenson.

49. “Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.”-Brendan Francis.

50. “Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”-Arnold Glasow.

51. “It is fear that first brought gods into the world.”~Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon.

52. "With a strong heart and a ready mind what have I to fear?"-Chu Yuan, aka Qu Yuan.

53. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”-Bertrand Russell.

54. “Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.”-Author Unknown.

55. “He, who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.”-French Proverb.

56. “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”-Marie Curie.

57. "If you talk to the animals they will talk to you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them. And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys."--Chief Dan George.

58. “If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”  ~Mother Teresa

59. "A man is as old as he feels, a woman as old as she looks."-Mortimer Collins.

60. “We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.  We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”-David Sarnoff.

61. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”-Mark Twain.

62. "Better to be without logic than without feeling."-Charlotte Bronte.

63. "Never Play With The Feelings Of Others Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Loose The Person For Life Time."- Shakespeare.

64.  “You can blow out a candle, but you can’t blow out fire.”-Peter Gabriel.

65. "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."-Reggie Leach.

66. “I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.”-Julius Caesar.

67. "From the little spark may burst a mighty flame."-Alighieri Dante.

68. "The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener."-Joseph Addison.

69. “Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”-La Rochefoucauld.

70. "Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs."-George Chapman.

71. “My father always says you cannot ride two horses at the same time. I like to say, you can do anything, but not everything. Learn to be present where you are; give your all to whatever you’re currently doing. Focused energy is power, and it’s the difference between success and failure.”- Albert Einstein

72. “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger, the tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.”-Proverb.

73. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."-Lincoln.

74. "He who thinks himself wise, O' heavens! is a great fool."-Voltaire.

75. "When you are arguing with a fool, two fools are arguing."-Anonymous.

76. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is a fool forever."-Traditional Chinese Proverb.

77. "Never let a fool kisses you or a kiss fools you."-Joey Adams.

78. “Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody.” —Andre Maurois (1885-1967) French writer.

79. "Forgive others for their misdeeds over and over again. This gesture fosters inner peace. Forgive yourself over and over and over again. Then try to do better next time."-Epictetus.

80. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”- Mahatma Gandhi.

81. “Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”-Oscar Wilde.

82. “I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.  Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”-Henry Ward Beecher.

83. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”- Paul Boese

84. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”-Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983  (Thanks, Donna)

85. "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." - Cherie Carter-Scott

86. “There is no revenge as complete as forgiveness.”-Josh Billings.

87. "To err is human; to forgive divine."-Pope.

88. “Yes, this is what good is:  to forgive evil.  There is no other good.”-Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin.

89. “Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”-Roberto Assagioli

90.  “Fortune favors the brave.”-Virgil.

91. “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”-Sallust.

92. “No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”-Plutarch.

93. “He that is good is free, though he be a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”- St. Augustine.

94. “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you are a man, you take it.”-Malcolm.

95. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."-Abraham Lincoln.

96. “Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.”-Robert Ingersoll, Individuality.

97. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."-Charles Caleb Colton.

98. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."-Unknown.

99. "Friendship is one mind in two bodies."-Mencius.

100.               "Friends are God's way of taking care of us."-Unknown.

101.               "If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them; I'd be at the bottom to catch them."-Unknown.

102.   "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."-Unknown.

103.   "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."-Lee Iacocca.

104.   "Hold a true friend with both your hands."-Nigerian Proverb.

105.   "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."-Unknown.

106.    “Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”-Publilius Syrus.

107.   “Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.”-Thomas Jones.

108.   “Money can not buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.”-Spike Milligan.

109.   “Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.”-Saadi.

110.   “A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”-Kurt Cobain.

111. “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”-An English Proverb.

112.“There are three faithful friends: old wife, old dog and ready money.”-Franklin.

113.“Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.”-Delisle.

114.“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”-The Bible.

115."A friend in power is a friend lost."-Henry Adams.

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

117."Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief."- Henry Adams.

118."Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never."-Charles Caleb Colton.

119."Friendships which are born in misfortune are more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness."-Thomas D'Urfey.

120."Friends are as dangerous as enemies."-Thomas De Quincey.

121."Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends."-Jacques Delille.

122."The best way to keep your friends is to never borrow from them and never lend them anything."-Paul De Kock.

123."A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."-Benjamin Franklin.

124."A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother."- Benjamin Franklin.

125."A woman's friendship ever ends in love."-John Gay.

126."It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."-Goethe.

127."Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."-Publilius Syrus.

128."Treat your friend as if he might become your enemy."- Publilius Syrus.

129."True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation."-Theophrastus.

130."Wealth makes many friends."-Proverb.

131."Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."-Proverb.

132."It is good to have friends, but bad to need them."-Proverb.

133."Friends are thieves of time."-Proverb.

134."A friend is never known till a man has need."-Proverb.

135."A friend in need is a friend indeed."-Proverb.

136."Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them."-Plautus.

137."Nothing is friendlier to a man than a friend in need."-Plautus.

138."A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find."-Plutarch.

139."He who is the friend of all humanity is not my friend."-Moliere.

140."The golden period, when I had not a single friend."-Henry Miller.

141."There is no friendship between those associated with power; he who rules will always be impatient of an associate."-Lucan.

142."Friendship is the shadow of the evening which strengthens with the setting sun of life."-Jean De La Foontaine.

143."Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."- Jean De La Foontaine.

144."Two persons will not be friends long if they cannot forgive each other little failings."- Jean De La Bruyere.

145."If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man… should keep his friendship in constant repair."-Samuel Johnson.

146."An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."-Thomas Jefferson.

147."I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."- Thomas Jefferson.

148."Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thought."-Horace.

149."He will never have true friends who are afraid of making enemies."-William Hazlitt.

150."It is a misfortune for a man not to have a friend in the world, but for that reason he shall have no enemy."-Lord Halifax.

151."Better to trust an open enemy than a reconciled friend."-Robert Greene.

152."He will never have true friend who is afraid of making enemies."-William Hazlitt.

153."If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world”- Abraham Lincoln.

154.“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.”-Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend  (Thank you, Carolyn.)

155.       “The future never just happened. It was created.”-Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History.

156.       “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”-Alan Kay.

157.       “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”-Malcolm X.

158.       “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”-Galadrial.

159.       "People who think about the past have no future."-Hermione Gingold.

160.       “Take care of the present, and future will take care of itself.”-An English Saying.

161.       “I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.”-Pinero.

162.   "When all is lost, the future still remains."-Bovee.

163.    “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”-Peter Drucker

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1.     "Gambling: It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief."-George Washington.

2.     “If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape?  No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.”  ~Mark Twain

3.     "To see things in the seed, that is genius."-Lao Tzu.

4.     "Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."-Josh Billings.

5.     "Genius means a transcendent capacity for taking trouble."-Carlyle.

6.     "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

7.     "Genius does what it must, talent does what it can."-Edward Bulwer.

8.     "There is no genius without a seed of madness."-Aristotle.

9.     “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”-Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)

10. “Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”-Albert Einstein

11. "Generous people are rarely mentally ill people."-Dr Karl Menninger.

12. "The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the opposite of this."-Analects.

13. "A man can never be a true gentleman in manner until he is a true gentleman at heart."-Charles Dickens.

14. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”- Vince Lombardi.

15.  “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship”- Lord Buddha.

16. "You must be poor to know the luxury of giving."-George Eliot.

17. "The value of a man should be seen in what he gives to society and not in what he is able to receive from society."-Albert Einstein.

18. "Never, never, never give up."-Winston Churchill.

19. "Before you speak, listen; before you write, think; before you spend, earn; before you invest, investigate; before you criticize, wait; before you pray, forgive; before you quit, try; before you retire, save; before you die, give."-Anonymous.

20. “If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.”  ~Arabian Proverb.

21. "A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living or dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving."-Albert Einstein.

22. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”  ~Winston Churchill.

23. “Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.”  ~Author Unknown

24. “The greatest glory is not in ever failing, but in rising every time you fail.”-Confucius.

25.  “The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.”-Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

26. "The paths of glory lead but to the grave."-T Gray.

27. "The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."-Cicero.

28. “People are not lazy. They simply have important goals-that it, goals that do not inspire them.”-Anthony Robbins.

29. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”- Earl Nightingale.

30. "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by them."-Victor Frankl.

31. "The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.  The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."   - Benjamin Mays

32. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”- George Shinn.

33.  “Arise, Awake and stop not till the goal is achieved”-Swami Vivekananda

34. “People with clear and written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them.”-Brian Trecy.

35. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”-Earl Nightingale.

36. “All that glitters is not gold.”-Cervantes.

37. “...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon.  In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.”~Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?

38. “Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving crates love”-Lao Tse.

39.  “Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. Therefore, they are humble.”- John Ruskin.

40.  “Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.”- Harold Kushner.

41. "He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."-Rabindranath Tagore.

42. “Do good if you can to every person you meet, but always do no harm.”-Bansi Gandhi.

43. "Good is restraint in deed; good is restraint in speech; good is restraint in mind; good is restraint in everything. Who restrained at all points, is freed from sorrow."-Lord Buddha.

44. "Incline yourself to goodness-you will become good unconsciously. Absorb yourself in good thoughts-your personality will bloom accordingly."-Sri Thakur Anukulchandra.

45. "If you want to be good, you must first admit that you are bad."-Anonymous.

46. "Returning good for good is commendable. Returning good for evil is Christ-like."-Anonymous.

47. “Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.”  ~Author Unknown

48. "He that spares the bad inures the good."-Thomas Fuller.

49. "We can do more good by being good, than in other way."-Rowland Hill.

50. "A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's."-Richard Whately.

51. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."-Thomas Paine.

52. "A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others."-Confucius, Chinese philosopher.

53. “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”-Fran Lebowitz.

54.  “I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”-Ray Charles.

55. “The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.”-Woody Allen.

56. "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."-George Eliot.

57. "Man's greatness lies in his power of thoughts."-Blaise Pascal.

58. "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."-Washington Irving.

59. "Most of us will never do great things, but we can all do small things in a great way."-Anonymous.

60. "A man's greatness is determined only by his work."-V.I.Lenin.

61. "There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feels great."-G K Chesterton.

62. “You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”-Leo Brown.

63. “Everybody can be great.  Because anybody can serve.  You don't have to have a college degree to serve.  You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.  You only need a heart full of grace.  A soul generated by love.”~Martin Luther King, Jr.

64. “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”  ~Mother Teresa

65. "The world has enough for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed."-Mohamed Idris.

66. "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed."-Frank Buchman.

67. "From endearment, affection, attachment, lust and craving spring’s grief, springs fear. For him who is wholly free from endearment, affection, lust and craving; there is no grief, much less fear."-Lord Buddha.

68. "A gentleman does not grieve that people do not recognize his merits; he grieves at his own incapacities."-Confucius.

69. “We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.”-Frank A. Clark.

70. "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."-Sir William Blackstone.

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1.     “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”-Aristotle.

2.      “In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.”- Og Mandino.

3.     "Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity."-St Augustine.

4.     "Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."-Charles Reade.

5.     "For that, which has become habitual, becomes, as it were, natural."-Aristotle.

6.     “To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others use your heart.”-Eleanor Roosevelt

7.     “Handsome is that handsome does.”-Fielding.

8.      “The happiness of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way”- Lily Tomlin.

9.     “The secret of happiness is simple find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace.”-Robin S. Sharma.

10. “Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.”- Dale Carnegie.

11. “Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

12. “When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

13. “Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.  Everything is simply happy.  Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance.  Look at the flowers - for no reason.  It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.”~Osho.

14. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel-not a destination.”-Roy M Goodman.

15. "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative efforts."-Frankline D Roosevelt.

16. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”-Benjamin Disraeli.

17. "Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest."-R G Ingersoll.

18. "Happiness is when what you think, what you do, and what you say, are in harmony."-M K Gandhi.

19. “Happiness comes from serving and loving.”-Juana Bordas.

20. "Happy is the person who finds fault with himself instead of finding fault with others."-Hadith.

21. "Doing what you like is freedom but liking what you do is happiness."-Anonymous.

22. "Little drops of water, little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,

Help to make earth happy

 like the heaven above."-Julia A Fletcher Carney.

23. "No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy."-Herbert Spencer.

24. "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

25. "I never met a rich man who was happy but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man."-Malcom Muggeridge.

26. “In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.”~Karl Reiland

27. "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live."-Bertrand Russell.

28. "The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts."-Timothy Dwight.

29. "Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."-Marcel Proust.

30. "Happiness is the end for which human beings are designed."-Aristotle.

31. "Happiness lies not in mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits."-Anonymous.

32. “Happiness is always a by-product.  It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.  But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”-Robertson Davies.

33. “Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”-Fyodor Dostoevsky.

34. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”-James Openheim.

35. “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”-H. Jackson Browne.

36. “It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.  Poverty and wealth have both failed.”-Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard.

37. “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”-Margaret Young.

38. “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne.

39. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”-Joseph Addison.

40. “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”-Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo.

41. “On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”-William R. Inge.

42. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”-Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956.

43. “When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land.”-Grey Livingston

44. “We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”-Frederick Keonig.

45. “Happiness?  That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.”-Albert Schweitzer.

46. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”-Eleanor Roosevelt.

47. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.”-Sydney J. Harris.

48. “Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.”-Author Unknown.

49. “If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”-Taisen Deshimaru.

50. “The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.”  ~Leo Rosten.

51. “This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”  ~George Bernard Shaw

52. “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”-Werner Erhard.

53. “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”-Maxim Gorky.

54. “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”-Epictetus.

55. “Happiness lies, first of all, in health.”~George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating

56. “You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.”-Lavetta Sue Wegman.

57. “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.  He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.  He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself.  He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.”-W. Beran Wolfe.

58. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.  You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”-Albert Camus.

59. “If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.”-Josh Billings.

60. “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. “~Agnes Repplier

61. “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.”-William Feather.

62. “Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.”-François Duc de La Rochefoucauld.

63. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”-Marcel Proust.

64. “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”-Author Unknown.

65. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”-Margaret Lee Runbeck.

66. “The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.”-Author Unknown.

67. “Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.”-Robert S. Lynd.

68. “The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:  if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”-C.P. Snow.

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

70. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”-Harry Golden.

71. "Eating little and speaking little can never do harm."-Sir John Lubbock.

72. "Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay."-Sallust.

73. "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."-Hermann Hesse.

74. “Hatred does not cease by hatred; hatred ceases only by love. This is the eternal law.”-Buddha.

75. "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."-Swift.

76. "Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

77. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”-Andre Gide.

78. “Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”  ~Henry Emerson Fosdick.

79. “Love is blind; hate is deaf.”-Author Unknown.

80. “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.”~Charles Caleb Colton.

81. “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.  What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”  ~Hermann Hesse.

82. "Two heads are better than one."-An English Proverb.

83. "I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."-Theodore Roosevelt.

84. “The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”-Benjamin Disraeli.

85. "Cultivate health instead of treating disease."-John Ruskin.

86. “There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.”~Josh Billings.

87. “The greatest wealth is health.”~Virgil.

88. “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”~World Health Organization, 1948.

89. “Health is a relationship between you and your body.”-Terri Guillemets

90. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched… but are felt in the heart”- Hellen Keller.

91. “If your success is not on your own terms; if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”-Anna Quindlen.

92. "If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit."-Bulwer-Lytton.

93. "The entire universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the heart. Thus the heart is the nucleus of the whole universe."-Sri Ramana Maharshi.

94. "If you can walk on waters, are you better than a straw? If you can fly in the air, are you better than a fly? O Brother, conquer your heart that you may be, indeed, a servant of mankind."-Abdullah Ansari.

95. "It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart."-Anonymous.

96. "If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written on the heart. The spirit should not grow old."-James A Garfield.

97. "So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies."-Sir Walter Raleigh.

98. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”-Confucius.

99. “Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.”-Milton.

100.            "Help other people get what they want- and you'll get what you want."-Mary Kay Ash.

101.   “Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.”-Luther Burbank.

102.   "Who goes to the hills, goes to his mother."-Rudyard Kipling.

103.  “Honesty is the best policy in international relations, inter-personal relations, labour, business, education, family, and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.”- Ramsey Clark.

104.  "Honesty is the best policy."-An English Proverb.

105.  "No legacy is as rich as honesty."-Shakespeare.

106.  “It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”  ~Niccolo Machiavelli.

107.  “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” ~Socrates

108.  “We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”-Hanmer Parsons Grant.

109.  "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."-Sir Francis bacon.

110.  "I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country."-Felon.

111.  "After all there is but one race-Humanity."-George Moore.

112.  “Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo:  not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”~Lewis Mumford.

113.  “One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”~Franklin Thomas.

114.   “If you are unhappy, get busy doing something for someone else. If you concentrate on yourself you will be unhappy, but if you focus on helping others you will find happiness because you rise above the narrow confines of your individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.

115.  “If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.”~Montesquieu

116.  "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for one’s own improvement and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity."-Marie Curie.

117.  "We have but only one country which is earth; we have but one nation and that is mankind; and we have but only one religion called humanism."-R N Tagore.

118.  “The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”  ~Don Marquis.

119.  “Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.”  ~Author Unknown.

120.  “Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.”~John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957.

121.   “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”-Mother Teresa.

122.   “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”-Mother Teresa

123.  "A hungry person listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers."-Seneca.

124.  "Poor men eat more excellent food than the rich; hunger gives it sweetness."-Epic Mahabharata.

125.  "You ask the hungry man how much is two and two; he replies "four loaves."-A Hindu Saying.

126.  “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.  Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”-St Francis de Sales

127.  “Nothing can hurt me without my permission.”-Mahatma Gandhi.

128.  "Those have most power to hurt us that we love."-John fletcher.

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