quotations: Quotations-N,O,P,Q,R,S

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” ~Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934.
“I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.”~Rosika Schwimmer.
"Nature destroys that which ceases to grow and evolve."-Anonymous.
“I believe in God, only I spell it nature.”-frank Lloyd Wright.
“No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.”~Harry Bridges
“A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole [of] nature in its beauty.”-Albert Einstein, 1950
"Make yourself necessary to somebody."-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Give me luxuries of life and I will willingly do without necessities.”-Frank Lloyd Wright.
“Necessity knows no law.”-St Augustine.
“Close your eyes and you will see that you are all you really need.”-Bon Jovi.
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."-Karl Marx.
"Take only what you need, and put back as much as you can."--Lakota Elder.
“When your neighbor’s house is afire, your own property is at stake.”-Horace.
“Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.”-Kossuth.
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.” ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas Jefferson.
“Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.”~Catherine O'Hara
“Health is the greatest acquisition, contentment the greatest wealth, confidence the best of relationships, and Nirwana the highest happiness.”-Gautam Buddha.
"Nobility grows out of contained emotion."-Georges Braque.
“Virtue alone is true nobility.”-William Gifford.
“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”~Hindustani Proverb.
"It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out."-Alexander Pope.
”Non-violence is not a cover for cowardice, but it is the supreme virtue of the brave.”-M K Gandhi.
“There is no such thing as defeat or despair in the dictionary of a man who bases his life on Truth and Non-violence.”-M K Gandhi.
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”-Alexander Hamilton
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." – Anonymous.
“You cannot “presently” change yesterday or tomorrow, so it’s of supreme importance that you dedicate all of your efforts to “right now.” It’s the only time that matters, it’s the only time there is.”- Albert Einstein

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“To attempt to climb-to achieve-without a firm objective in life is to attain nothing.”-Mary Robeling.
“For one who has no objective, nothing is relevant.”-Confucius.
“The power of observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.”-George Bernard Shaw.
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”-Booker T Washington.
“Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.”-Orison Swett Marden.
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”-Frank A. Clark.
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”-Henry Ford
"The new can defeat the old but not destroy it."-Anonymous.
“A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman as old as she looks.”-Mortimer Collins.
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."-John Barrymore.
"Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form."-Andre Maurois.
"Everyone grows old with the passage of time: Desire alone remains ever youthful."-M K Gandhi.
“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”-Douglas MacArthur.
“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.”-J.B. Priestly.
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”-Oliver Wendell Holmes.
“Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.”-Michel de Montaigne
“Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinions of the things that happen.”- Epictetus.
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."-William Blake.
“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”-Lincoln.
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”-Bruce Lee.
“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”~Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind.
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."-Lee Iacocca.
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."-Francis bacon.
"Every problem is also a great opportunity."-Robert Kiyosaki
“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”-Voltaire.
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”-Anon.
“A pessimist thinks he is taking a chance, but the optimist thinks he is grasping an opportunity.”-Anon.
“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”-Lee Iacocca.
"Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get off his seat and open the door."-Gen Douglas MacArthur.
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”-Sally Koch
The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.- Zig Ziglar
"Opportunities are like sunrises, if you wait too long you can miss them."- Willian Arthur.
“If you have opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.”-Kanye West.
“The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.”-Walter P Chryster.
“Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.”~Bulgarian Proverb.
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”~Milton Berle
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only red stop light… but the truly wise person is colour blind."-Albert Schweitzer.
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”~Harry Truman.
"The eyes are the silent orators of the mind. Like all orators, they are apt to deceive."-Lambert Jeffries.
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve.
"To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up." - Ralph Bunche.

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1. "Behind every successful man, there is an untold pain in his heart."-Bill Jacobs.

2. “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.”-M Kathleen Casey.

3. “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.”-Simonides.

4. "Whatever comes-this, too, shall pass away.-"Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

5. "I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."-Stephen Grellet.

6. "Passion is the genesis of genius."-Tony Robbins.

7. "Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."-Oprah Winfrey.

8. "I have only one counsel for you-be master of your passions."-Napoleon Bonaparte.

9. "Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions."-Benjamin Disraeli.

10. “Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.”-John Wesley.

11. “Principle is a passion for truth.”-Hazlitt.

12. “Follow your passion, and success will follow you.”-Terri Guillemets

13. "The passion of love is the central passion of human life. It should be humanized; it should be made beautiful."-Ludwig Lewisohn.

14. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”-Oprah Winfrey.

15. “Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.”-Sir William Osler.

16. “The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”-Edward Thomas.

17. "The past should not worry us because it is the past, and we can do nothing to change it. What should concern us is the future which we can affect by our present action. The immediate past is of no more consequence than the more distant past. So, we must think all past actions to be those of a past life. This will make it easy…to concentrate on laying the basis for future spiritual development."-Sri P Rajagopalchari.

18. “The past is never dead. It’s is not even past.”-William Faulkner.

19. “Never live in the past, but always learn from it.”-Anonymous.

20. “What good is it to run when you are going the wrong path?”-Proverb.

21. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Walds Emerson.

22. “Find your path and be true to it.”-William Bridges.

23. “The key to everything is patience. You get chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”- Arnold Glasgow.

24. "Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace; both put together makes very pretty face."-Anonymous.

25. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."-J J Rousseau.

26. "Beware of the fury of a patient man."-John Dryden.

27. "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."-Plautus.

28. “If you are patient during a moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sadness.”-Proverb.

29. “How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?”~Paul Sweeney

30. "No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."-William Cowper Brann.

31. “You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”~George Bernard Shaw

32. “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”- Abraham Maslow.

33. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”~Mother Teresa.

34. “A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment”- American proverb.

35. “We cannot seek peace in the language of wars and threats.”-Jawaharlal Nehru.

36. “Peace cannot be purchased by compromise with evil, or surrender to it.”- Jawaharlal Nehru.

37. “Until you make peace with which you are, you will never be content with what you have.”-Doris Mortman.

38. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”-Malcolm X.

39. "Making peace is harder than making war."-Adlai Stevenson.

40. "Peace begins where ambition ends."-Rev. Edward Young.

41. "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."-Lord Buddha.

42. "When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world."-Martin Buber.

43. “There are three kinds of people: those who make it happen, those who let it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”-Anon

44. “A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”-William James.

45. “The voice of the people is the voice of God.”-A Latin Saying.

46. “Common people do not pray; they only beg.”-Bernard Shaw.

47. "People must help one another; it is nature's law."-Jean de La Fontaine.

48. “Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”~Mark Twain

49. “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.”~Flavia Weedn, Forever.

50. "The pen is the tongue of mind."-Cervantes.

51. “The pen is mightier than the sword.”-Bulwer.

52. "Some men rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen."-Woody Guthrie.

53. “All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”-Leonardo da Vinci.

54. "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived."-William Blake.

55. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”-Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

56. “Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.”-Burk Hudson.

57. “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.”-Dr. David M Burns.

58. "Perfection is attained by slow degrees. It requires the hand of time."-Francois Voltaire.

59. “Have no fear of perfection- you’ll never reach it.”-Salvador Dali.

60. "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."-Erich Fromm.

61. "Perseverance, secret of all triumphs"-Victor Hugo.

62. "Everything is practice and perseverance."-Pele.

63. “Through perseverance the turtle reached the ark. Are you willing to persevere until you get to your intended destination? They say the entire value of the postage stamp consist in its ability to stick to something until it gets there. Be like the postage stamp; finish the race that you’ve started!”- -Albert Einstein.

64. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”-Peter Drucker

65. “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even important to have a plan or goal.”-Zig ziglar.

66. “People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.”-Author Unknown.

67. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant”- Robert Louis Stevenson

68. “The greatest pleasure in life is to do what people say you cannot do.”-Waiter Bagehot.

69. "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."-Samuel Johnson.

70. "Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasure."-Samuel Johnson.

71. "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."-S T Coleridge.

72. "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose= words in their best order; poetry= the best words in their best order."-S T Coleridge.

73. "No bad man can be a good poet."-Boris Pasternak.

74. “Poor people are like bonsai. You take a seed of the tallest tree and plant it in a flower pot to curtail its growth. But, if society gives them a larger base with enough nutrients, they will grow like any other tall tree and reach out for the sky. Poverty is a disease that is created by the system, and thereby imposed on a major section of the world population. Though the seeds are the same, they don’t grow enough because they don’t have enough soil. Similarly, poor people-though born the same-just lack the opportunity, an artificial imposition by society.”-Mohammad Yunus.

75. “To be poor and independent is very nearly impossibility.”-William Cobbett.

76. “The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”-Shaw.

77. "It's no disgrace to be poor, but it's no great honor, either."-Sholom Aleichem.

78. "I would judge the wealth of a nation not by the presence of millionaires but by the absence of poverty."-W. E. DuBois.

79. "The truly poor man is not he who has little but he who wishes for more."-Seneca.

80. I shall not rest till I have wiped every tear from every eye of every poor countryman of mine."-M K Gandhi.

81. “The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”-George Bernard Shaw.

82. “Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy.”-Ambrose Bierce.

83. “Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.” ~Author Unknown

84. "Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."-Albert Camus.

85. "Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage."-Jacques Yves Cousteau.

86. "In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."-Lee Iacocca.

87. “In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”-Lee Iacocca.

88. “End is not the end. In fact E.N.D. is “Effort Never dies”; and if you get NO in answer, remember N.O. is “Next Opportunity.” So always be positive in life.”-Unknown.

89. “It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.”-Vida D Scudder.

90. “The only thing that stands between a person and what they want from life is often the will to try it and the faith to believe it’s possible.”-Rich Devos.

91. “It is an ironic fact that while half the world's population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence.”~Malcolm Carruthers.

92. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power”- Lao Tzu.

93. “Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.”-Anthony Robbins.

94. “The closer I came to the centre of power, the less fulfilling and pleasant I found it to be.”-Derek Draper.

95. “Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.”- Orison Sweet Marden.

96. “The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”- Baltasar Gracian.

97. “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.

98. “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s truer that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”-David Brin.

99. “Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”-Elie Wiesel.

100. “Power never takes a back step-only in the face of more power.”-Malcolm X.

101. “An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”-Thomas Jefferson.

102. “The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”-William Hazlitt.

103. “Knowledge itself is power.”-Bacon.

104. “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

105. “He is most powerful who has power over himself.”-Seneca

106. “Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”-Blaise Pascal.

107. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”-Abraham Lincoln.

108. “I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.

109. "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."-Jaspar B Sinclair.

110. “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”-Voltaire.

111. “Prejudice is all in your head.”-Unknown.

112. “Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.”~John Lancaster Spalding

113. “Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”-William Hazlitt.

114. “It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”-Thoreau.

115. "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."-Albert Einstein.

116. "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment."-Albert Einstein.

117. "The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood."-Rene Descartes.

118. “Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.”~Edward Roscoe Murrow, 31 December 1955.

119. “In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.”~Ralph W. Sockman

120. "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."-Roger Babson.

121. “Don't let the past steal your present.”~Terri Guillemets.

122. “The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” ~Abraham Maslow.

123. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift-that's why it's called the present."-Anonymous.

124. "Why doesn't the past decently bury itself instead of sitting and waiting to be admitted by the present."-D H Lawrence.

125. “I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
The only way to properly address your future is to be as present as possible “in the present.”- Albert Einstein.

126. “No pressure, no diamonds.”-Mary Case.

127. “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”~Kahlil Gibran

128. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”-Anonymous.

129. “Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it, establish your priorities, and go to work!”- H. Lamar Hunt.

130. “He, who opens a school door, closes a prison.”-Victor Hugo.

131. “To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”-Bishop Taylor.

132. “You don’t solve problems by ducking and avoiding them but by taking them head on and by getting on top of them.”-Anon.

133. “In a day, when you don’t come across any problem-you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path.”-Swami Vivekananda.

134. “If you have a problem with my answer that’s your problem, not mine.”-Dennis Rodman.

135. "If we really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem."-J Krishnamurti.

136. “The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have-and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.”-Paul Heyne

137. "Problems are parts of our life and the best way to get out of a problem is to go through it"-A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

138. “It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.”- Albert Einstein.

139. “Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”-Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind.

140. “Problems are the price you pay for progress.”-Branch Rickey

141. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”-Duke Ellington

142. "Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."-Thor Heyerdahl.

143. "The aim of argument, or discussion, should not be victory, but progress."-Joseph Joubert.

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

145. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep."-Robert Frost.

146. “Property is organized robbery.” ~George Bernard Shaw.

147. “Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.”~Abraham Lincoln.

148. “The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.”~Leo Tolstoy

149. “Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.”-Vauvenargues.

150. "Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, and the nation great."-Victor Hugo.

151. “Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration. Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things. Today, and this very moment, is a gift. Stay focused on your purpose. The Universe will take care of everything else.”- Robin S. Sharma.

152. “The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought to other people’s lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.” - Rabbi Harold Kushner.

153. “However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of great purpose”- Duc de La Rochefoucauld.

154. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”~Robert Byrne.

155. “Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”~Washington Irving.

156. “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the 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

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“Life consists of three Rs: receipt of stimuli from the world through the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin; reaction to the stimuli with the desires in your mind; and response to the world in the form of action. A successful person is one who refuses to think ill of anyone or anything because he is wholly engaged in positive work. He is inspired with higher thoughts which prevent negativity from taking roof in his mind. Are you too full of yourself to spare a thought for anyone else, or are you concerned with the welfare of the world? Whatever be your vocation, rise above personal profit and pleasure, and dedicate your actions to a higher ideal. The higher the ideal, the greater is your success. Material prosperity is a by-product of your dedication to a cause greater than yourself. Imagine a factory which has strict quality control norms in the manufacturing process. It will always give good results.”- Jaya Row.
“He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.”-Tom Connelly.

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."-lily Tomlin.
“Slow and steady wins the race.”-A Popular Saying.
“Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.”-Josh Billings.
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."-Epictetus.
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”-Sir Richard Steele.
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”-Groucho Marx.
“Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”-Francis Bacon.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent”- Albert Einstein.
“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”-Les Brown
"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow, and you will get back ten times to a hundredfold more than you give to the world."-Anonymous.
“Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.”-Cicero.
“”He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares, not is a slave.”-Sir William Drummond.”
“Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.”~Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”- Willis R. Whitney.
"There is a deep need in every human being for ego-recognition. No composer ever composed his music for himself alone. It is this desire to please others and win their recognition and approbation that leads the creative geniuses to create their great works in art, literature, music, science, and industry. They have a desire to create for the good of the world and to share the products of their creative minds with other people."-Anonymous.
"Be a lamp unto yourselves, seek refuge in yourselves."-Lord Buddha
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in."-Katherine Mansfield.
“Relationships help us define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.” - John C. Maxwell.
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”-Ben Stein.
“Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.” ~Author Unknown
"The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get, but what you give."-Eleanor Roosevelt.
“On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of conservatism.”~Barry Goldwater
“We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.”-Swift.
“What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.”~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785
“Men will wrangle for religion; write for it, fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.”-Colton.
“Men never do evil so completely and so cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”-Blaisse Pascal.
“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.”-Arthur C Clarke.
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.”-Abraham Lincoln.
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”~Seneca the Younger.
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”~G.K. Chesterton.
“I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it.”~Joe Mullally.
“Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.”~Robert G. Ingersoll.
“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.”~Author Unknown
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”~Dalai Lama.
“It is the position of some theists that their right to freedom OF religion is abridged when they are not allowed to violate the rationalists' right to freedom FROM religion.”~James T. Green
“Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of the people.”~Karl Marx, "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," 1884.
"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed."-Albert Schweitzer.
“If the sole reason why you must not kill your neighbour is because God has forbidden it and will severely punish you for it in this or the next life - then, when you learn that there is no God and that you need not fear His punishment, you will certainly kill your neighbour without hesitation, and you can only be prevented from doing so by mundane force. Thus either these dangerous masses must be held down most severely and kept most carefully away from any chance of intellectual awakening, or else the relationship between civilization and religion must undergo a fundamental revision.”~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."-Jonathan Swift.
“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I make your horn louder.”-Unknown.
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”-Martin Luther King Jr.
“Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.”-Dryden.
“I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.”-Jules Renard.
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”-Socrates.
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."-Henry Ford.
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”-Confucius.
“Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.”-Peter McArthur.
“Have a deep respect for yourself and others. Do not do any harm to others, and accept others as they are.”-Juliana Kratz.
“Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals.”~Author Unknown
"If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”~Joan Didion.
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things.’”- John Burroughs.
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."-Abraham Lincoln.
"Never tell your resolution beforehand."-John Selden.
"Too much rest is rust."-Sir Walter Scott.
“Revenge is an inhuman word.”-Seneca.
"Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind."-Juvenal.
“Revenge is always the pleasure of a paltry, feeble, tny mind.”-Juvenal.
"It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward."-Abraham Joshua Heschel.
"A simple life is its own reward."-George Santayana.
“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”-Henry Ward Beecher.
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”-Anatole France.
“If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.”-Oliver Goldsmith.
“Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously and abundantly.”-Joseph Murphy.
"Riches are meant for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches."-Sa'di.
"A rich man is merely a trustee of his fortune-that it was his duty to distribute it for the improvement of humanity."-Andrew Carnegie.
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”~Henry Ward Beecher.
"The man who dies rich… dies disgraced."-Andrew Carnegie.
“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.” Jim Rohn
“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.”-Jack Welch.
“I had rather be right than be President.”-Henry Clay.
“Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.”-Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right-for you'll be criticized anyway."-Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.”-Author Unknown.
“Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.”~Polish Proverb
“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”-Geena Davis.
“Where there is no risk there can be no pride in achievement and consequently no happiness.”-Ray Kroc.
“There is always room at the top.”-Daniel Webster.”
“The three rules of work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”-Albert Einstein.
"He, who is unable to rule over self, can never really succeed in ruling over others."-M K Gandhi.

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"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for "-Albert Einstein

1. “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us the wordy evidence of the fact.”-George Eliot.

2. “God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars- Elbert Hubbard.

3. “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”- Benjamin Franklin.

4. “We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”- Anais Nin.

5. "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."-Pablo Picasso.

6. “You can only see in others what is inside of you.”- Zig Ziglar.

7. “You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”-Herb Cohen.

8. "What we see depends mainly on what we look for."-Sir John Lubbock.

9. “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly- that is what each of us is here for.”-Oscar Wilde.

10. “Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.”- Denis Waitley.

11. “Self respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”-Rabbi Abraham Heschel.

12. “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”~Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967.

13. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”~Clint Eastwood.

14. “They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”~Mahatma Gandhi.

15. “Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.”~Whitney Griswold.

16. “That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”~William J.H. Boetcker.

17. “If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”~Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

18. “It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.”~Dale E. Turner

19. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."-Helen Keller.

20. “Don't cast a shadow on anyone unless you're providing shade.” ~Terri Guillemets.

21. "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."-Benjamin Franklin.

22. “A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.”-William Shedo.

23. “Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. “~Margaret Lee Runbeck

24. “The speech is silver; silence is golden.”-German Proverb.

25. “Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”-Josh Billings.

26. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”-Abraham Lincoln.

27. “He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.”-Ausonius.

28. Oppression can only survive through silence.”-Carmen de Monterflores.

29. “I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”-Cato the Elder.

30. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”-Martin Luther King Jr.

31. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”- Martin Luther King Jr.

32. “I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”-Publilius Syrus.

33. “When you speak, try to make your words better than silence.”-Proverb.

34. “Silence is one great art of conversation.”-Hazlitt.

35. “Silence is the virtue of fools.”-bacon.

36. “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

37. "Coin always makes sound but the currency notes are always silent. So when your value increases keep yourself calm and silence”-Shakespeare.

38. "To be alone is better than to have a bad companion; and a good companion is better than being alone; and speaking what is good is better than keeping silence; and silence is better than speaking what is evil."-Prophet Mohammed.

39. "The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!"- Napoleon.

40. "The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!"- Nepoleon.

41. “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”~Leopold Stokowski.

42. “The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

43. "The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity."-Oscar Wilde.

44. "They are slaves who fear to speak for the fallen and the weak."-James Russell Lowell.

45. “A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.”-Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible.

46. “Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.”-Chinese Proverb.

47. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”-Albert Einstein.

48. "If you see someone without a smile, give him one of yours."-Phil Irwin.

49. "A smile is a tranquilizer without any side effect."-Anonymous.

50. “Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.” ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

51. “As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.” ~The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977

52. “During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.” ~Joann C. Jones.

53. “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”-Mother Teresa

54. "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."-Adlai Stevenson.

55. "Softness overcomes hardness."-Zuo Qiuming, court writer of the State of Lu, and contemporary of Confucius, c.500BC).

56. "Laughing Faces do not mean that there is absence of Sorrow!
But it means that they have the ability to deal with it". - Shakespeare

57. "The next war will be fought with atom bombs and the one after that with spears."-Harold Urey.

58. "There are two times of a man's life when he should not speculate; when he can't afford it, and when he can."-Mark Twain.

59. “The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”-Confucius.

60. “The person who is eloquent of speech and unafraid of the assembly is hard to defeat in debate.”- Thiruvalluvar.

61. “Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”-Carlyle.

62. “He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.”-Shelley.

63. “Though a speech consists of a thousand words, if these be lacking in sense, better a single word full of meaning on hearing of which one is at peace.”-Gautam Buddha.

64. “Speech is silver, silence golden.”-Anon.

65. "We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less."-Diogenes.

66. "Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself."-Blaise Pascal.

67. "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."-Charles Maurice de Talleyrand.

68. "Speech lies halfway between thought and action, and often substitutes for both."-John Andrew Holmes.

69. "The man who makes a bad 30- minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time-which should be a hanging offence."-Jenkin Lloyd Jones.

70. “Those who do not speak when they should, lose the right to speak forever”- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

71. "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."-William Ellery Channing.

72. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."- Pablo Neruda.

73. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”-Martin Luther King.

74. “Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

75. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”-Shelley.

76. “When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.”-Lee Salk.

77. "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service."-Georges Pompidou.

78. "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."-Lao-tze.

79. “A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is an insect, and the other is a horse still.”-Samuel Johnson.

80. “Only dead fish swim with the stream.”-Malcolm Muggeridge.

81. “Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly.”- Confucius.

82. “Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.”- J. Willard Marriott.

83. "Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."-Albert Einstein.

84. "Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."-Enripides.

85. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."-M K Gandhi.

86. "Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."-Eric Bentley.

87. “To put it all in simple terms, there are two things that you must do. The first thing you must do is to learn the rules of the game that you’re playing. It doesn’t sound exciting, but it’s vital. Secondly, you must commit to play the game better than anyone else. If you can do these two things, success will be yours!”- Albert Einstein.

88. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”-David Brinkley

89. “The moment you take complete responsibility for your life is the moment you start moving towards success.”-Unknown.

90. “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”-Booker T Washington.

91. “Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great, but what you consider to be right.”- John Gray.

92. “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting- in the trying, not the triumph.”- Wynn Davis.

93. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out….”- Robert Collier.

94. "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." Woody Allen

95. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”-Elbert Collier.

96. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”-Swami Vivekananda

97. “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”-Henry Ford

98. “I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”-Michael Jordan.

99. “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘make me feel important’. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”-Mary Kay Ash.

100. "You cannot climb the ladder of success with cold feet of fear."-Anonymous.

101. "Eighty percent of success is showing up."-Woody Allen.

102. “Nothing succeeds like success.”-Talleyrand.

103. "Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."-Swami Sivananda.

104. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."-Thomas Edison.

105. “The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”-George Bernard Shaw.

106. “Three sentences for getting success: A knows more than others. B. work more than others. C. expect less than others.”-William Shakesphere.

107. “Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.”-Author Unknown.

108. “The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.”-James L Allen.

109. “Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”-Woody Allen.

110. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” ~Albert Einstein.

111. “Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”-James M Barrie.

112. "Superstition is religion of feeble minds."-Edmund Burke.

113. "The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."-Henry Frederic Amiel.

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