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- “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they appear difficult.”- Seneca.
- “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”-Charles A Beard.
- "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."-A Chinese Proverb.
- “Death never takes the wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.”-Jean De La Fontaine.
- “Even death is not to be feared by those who live wisely.”-Buddha.
- "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."-Norman Cousins.
- “Debt is the worst poverty.”-Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
- "Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."-Blaise Pascal.
- “How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”-William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - "Defeat never comes to any man until he accepts and admits it."-Josephus Daniels.
- "Those who are prepared to die for a cause are seldom defeated."-Jawahar Lal Nehru.
- "Democracy to be successful must have a background of informed public opinion and a sense of responsibility."-Jawaharlal Nehru.
- “If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.”-Simeon Strunsky.
- “One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.”-Alexander A. Bogomoletz.
- "It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving."-Robert G Ingersoll.
- “I should always desire more than I can accomplish.”-Michelangelo
- "He who desires and acts not, breeds pestilence."-William Blake.
- "Our desires always increase with our possession."-Samuel Johnson.
- “It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get. Whatever our desire wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul."- Heraclitus.
- “The discipline of desire is the background of character.”-Unknown.
- “It’s choice-not chance-that determines your destiny.”-Jean Nidetch.
- “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.”-William Jennings Bryan.
- "Sow a thought, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny."-J W von Goethe.
- “Control your own destiny or someone else will.”-Jack Welch.
- “Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.” ~Tryon Edwards.
- “All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”-Albert Einstein.
- “In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.”~Richard Wilkinson.
- “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”-Stephen Covey.
- “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
- “I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”-- Robert Frost
- "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."-Mark Twain.
- “The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.”~William J. Clinton, 1997.
- “People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”-Linda Ellerbee.
- "The best way out of a difficulty is through it."-Anon.
- "The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury and to make good use of leisure."-Anon.
- “Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better.”-Author Unknown.
- “Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”- Aristotle.
- "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilting a field as in writing a poem."-Booker T Washington.
- “Where is there dignity unless there is honesty.”-Cecero.
- "When a diplomat says 'yes' he means perhaps; when he says 'perhaps' he means no; when he says 'no' he is no diplomat."-Anonymous.
- “If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.”-H.S. Leigh
- “You have to think about “big things” while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- "As man's prayers are a disease of a will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."-Emerson.
- “Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more.”- Sybil Stanton.
- “True discipline isn’t on your back needling you with imperatives; it is at your side, nudging you with incentives. When you understand that discipline is self-caring, not self-castigating, you won’t cringe at its mention, but will cultivate it.”- Sybil Stanton.
- “Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.” - Roy L. Smith
- “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”-Brian Tracy.
- “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”-Andre Gide.
- “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance- it is the illusion of knowledge.”-Daniel J. Boorstin.
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.”- Marcel Proust.
- "The better the man is, the less ready is he to suspect dishonesty in others."-Cecero.
- “The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?”-Henry David Thoreau.
- “Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.”-Gesser.
- “It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really has to know each other to get divorced.”- Mae West.
- “If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”-William Shakespeare.
- “People pay more attention to what you do than what you say.”- Zig Ziglar
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”-Johann Wolfgang van Goethe.
- “Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.”~Author Unknown.
- “You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” ~John Wooden
- “I am always doing things I can’t do; that’s how I get to do them.”- Pablo Picasso.
- “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.” ~Sydney Smith
- “The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.”-Dwight Whitney Morrow.
- "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."-Theodore Roosevelt.
- "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."-John F Kennedy.
- “We are what we repeatedly do.”-Aristotle.
- “People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.” ~Edith Wharton
- “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face….you must do thing you think you cannot do.”-Eleanor Roosevelt.
- “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” ~Edward Everett Hale
- “Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.”-Italian Proverb.
- “Never feel all doors are closed in your life. All closed doors may not be locked. They may be waiting for your gentle push.”-Unknown.
- “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”-Bertrand Russell.
- “Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”-Mick Jagger
- “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”-James Dean.
- "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."-Anatotle France.
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