- “If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.”-Unknown.
- “So it is said that if you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but you know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.”-Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
- “Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.”-Margaret Cho.
- “People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”-Salma Hayek.
- "Beauty is only skin-deep."-A Proverb.
- "There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."-Lady Blessington.
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-Margaret Wolfe Hungerford.
- "When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'you have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'-Anton Tchekhov.
- “I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.”-Author Unknown
- “We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”- Max Depree.
- "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."-attributed to Lao Tsu, aka Lao Zi, legendary Chinese Taoist philosopher, supposed to have lived between 600-400BC.
- "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."-Franklin.
- “The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.”-John Lyly.
- “It is a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief.”-Anonymous.
- "Beggars must not be choosers."-Beaumont And Fletcher.
- "The beginnings of all things are small."-Cicero, De Finibus.
- "Well Begun is half done."-Horace.
- "Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his true image."-Goethe.
- “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I do not have it at the beginning.”-Mahatma Gandhi.
- “Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”- Robert Collier.
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong,”-Bertrand Russell.
- “The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.”~Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999.
- “I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”-Gerry Spence.
- "It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."-Mohammad Ali.
- "Our life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it."-Joan of Arc.
- “Man is what he believes.”-Anton Chekhov.
- “Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.”-Noah Porter.
- “They can conquer who believe they can.”-Virgil.
- "Believe you can and you're halfway there."-Theodore Roosevelt.
- “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”-Bruce Barton.
- “The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not.” ~Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works.
- “Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.”~Walter Savage Landor.
- "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Hallas
- "The best is not the end point, but a starting point."-Lary Page- Founder, Google.
- "Good, better, best. Never rest till good be better and better best."-Anonymous.
- “Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”-William Faulkner.
- "Biography is by nature the most universally profitable, universally pleasant of all things: especially biography of distinguished individuals."-Thomas Carlyle.
- “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”-Swami Vivekananda
- “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”-Mahatma Gandhi.
- "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- "A room without books is like a body without a soul."-Cecero.
- “Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.”-Paxton Hood.
- “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”-James Bryce.
- “I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.”-Groucho Marx
- "Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains."-J J Rousseau.
- "Borrowing is not much better than begging."-Lessing.
- "Bottom is bottom, even if is turned upside down."-Stanislaw Lec.
- “Your brain never stops developing and changing. It’s been doing it from the time you were an embryo, and will keep on doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents its greatest strength.”- James Trefil, physicist and author.
- “Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.”~Pierre Cabanis, translated from French
- “The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures.”-Ronin S. Sharma.
- "Brave, bold man and women, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood; strengthen the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel."-Swami Vivekananda.
- "Fashion exists for women with no taste! Etiquette, for people with no breeding!!"-Marie, Queen of Romania.
- "Brevity is the soul of wit."-Shakespeare.
- "Man shall not live by bread alone."-The Bible.
- “Once the cart has broken, everyone will tell you where the potholes are.”-Proverb.
- “I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.”-William Stafford
- “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”-Proverb.
- “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”-Henry Ford.
- “Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.”~Max Amsterdam.
- “Stay busy; never be bored; always find five things to do.”-Lysy.
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1. "The greatest capability of superior people is that of helping other people to be virtuous."-Mencius, Chinese philosopher.
2. "Capital is only the fruit of labour, and could never have existed if labour had not first existed."-Abraham Lincoln.
3. “Assuredly nobody will care for him who cares for nobody.”-Thomas Jefferson.
4. “Find something you love doing and make it your career.”-Paul Hersey.
5. “We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.” ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present.
6. “Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”-Samuel Johnson.
7. "There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience."-Michelangelo Antonioni.
8. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy"- Martin Luther King, Jr.
9. "We must accept life for what it actually is- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."-Robert Louis Stevenson.
10. "The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is to challenge them so that he gives his best."-Woodrow Wilson.
11. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”-Martin Luther King
12. "How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game…whether you are a winner or loser."-Lou Holtz.
13. "The rotten apple spoils his companions."-Benjamin Franklin.
14. “You can’t keep doing the same thing every day and expect different results. In other words, you can’t keep doing the same workout routine and expect to look differently. In order for your life to change, you must change, to the degree that you change your actions and your thinking is to the degree that your life will change.”- Albert Einstein.
15. "Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."-Voltaire.
16. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”. Charles Darwin.
17. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”-George Bernard Shaw.
18. "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, and immortal."-Arthur Schopenhauer.
19. "He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”-Harold Wilson.
20. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”-Mary Engelbreit.
21. “Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.”-Tom Peters.
22. “Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” ~Jacob M. Braude
23. “When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.” ~Author Unknown.
24. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”-George Bernard Shaw.
25. "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."-Leo Tolstoy.
26. “Character is the salesman’s stock-in-trade. It is he who must first sell himself. Truthfulness, enthusiasm, and patience are great assets. The product itself is secondary.”- George Matthew Adams.
27. “Character is higher than intellect.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
28. “A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” ~Charles H. Spurgeon
29. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”-Abraham Lincoln.
30. “Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.”-Elmer G. Letterman.
31. “A man’s character is his fate.”-Heraclitus.
32. “When character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”-Japanese Proverb.
33. “The character of a man is known from his conversations.”-Nathaniel Emmons.
34. “Character is what you are in the dark.”-Dwight L Moody.
35. “Fame is what you have taken. Character is what you give. When to this truth you waken, then you begin to live.”-Bayard Taylor.
36. “Character is simply a habit long continued.”-Plutarch.
37. “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost and when character is lost, all is lost.”-Anon.
38. "Character is destiny."-Novalis.
39. "A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's."-Jean Paul Richter.
40. "Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."-Alphonse Karr.
41. "A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given."-M K Gandhi.
42. "Charity is not for publicity… what the right hand gives away, the left needn't know."-Anonymous.
43. “Charity sees the need, not the cause.”~German Proverb
44. Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.”- Jesus of Nazareth.
45. "Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."-William Penn.
46. “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”-Native American Proverb.
47. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have thankless child."-William Shakespeare.
48. "A mis-educated child is a child lost."-John F Kennedy.
49. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”-Rowling.
50. “Circumstances, what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”-Napoleon Bonaparte.
51. “The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am.”-Laura Schlessinger.
52. "Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but instruments of the wise."-M Lovell.
53. "We are citizens of the world; and the tragedy of our times is that we do not know this."-Woodrow Wilson.
54. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”-Margaret Mead.
55. “A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”-Samuel Johnson.
56. "Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort."-Jose Ortega Gasset.
57. "We certainly become more knowing, but we do not seem to become any more civilized."-Prince Charles.
58. “Cleverness is not wisdom.”-Euripides.
59. “Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”-Carlyle.
60. “Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.”-Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897
61. “Every silver lining has a cloud.”-Avon.
62. “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”-Horace Walpole.
63. “Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on their world.” - John C. Maxwell
64. "Employ someone of average ability, absolutely committed to the role than someone of absolute ability whose commitment is only average."-Henry Ford.
65. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”-Albert Einstein.
66. "Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are."-S M de Cervantes.
67. “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” ~George Washington Carver
68. "The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition."-Dwight Morrow, 1935.
69. “Don’t complain because you don’t have…. Enjoy what you’ve got.”- H. Stanley Judo.
70. “If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.”-Jack Welch.
71. “Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”~Edwin Way Teale
72. “Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”-Malcolm X.
73. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”-Hasidic Saying.
74. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”-Anna Freud.
75. “If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”-Ralph Waldo.
76. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”-Rosalynn Carter.
77. “Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”-Norman Vincent Peale.
78. “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”-Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly.
79. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.”-Author Unknown.
80. "You must conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer."-J W von Goethe.
81. “The conquest of oneself is better than the conquest of all others.”-Buddha.
82. “Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body.”-Rousseau.
83. "A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience."-Benjamin Disraeli.
84. "A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body: it preserves a constant ease and serenity of mind."-Joseph Addison.
85. “Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.” ~Sakyong Mipham
86. “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences.”-Robert Green Ingersoll.
87. "When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere."-F Duc de la Rochefoucauld.
88. “Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”~Lao Tzu.
89. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”- Eleanor Roosevelt.
90. “A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” ~Chinese Proverb.
91. “We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.”~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949.
92. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."-Thomas Paine.
93. “It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.”~Baha'u'llah
94. "Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."-Dale Carnegie.
95. “Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.”-Agesilaus the Second.
96. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”- Mark Twain.
97. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practise any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful or generous.”- Maya Anelou.
98. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”-Anais Nin.
99. “Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”-Clare Booth Luce.
100. "All goes if courage goes."-James Barrie.
101. "The test of courage is not to die but to live."-Anon.
102. "The great test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."-R G Ingersoll.
103. "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."-R L Stevenson.
104. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."-Sir Winston Churchill.
105. “A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.”-Sydney Smith
106. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”-Mohammed Ali.
107. “Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims.
108. “There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.”~Roscoe Snowden
109. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”-Peter Drucker.
110. “Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy: the sense of order imposed by the disciplined adult intelligence.”-Norman Podhoretz.
111. "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."-William Plomer.
112. “Curiosity is the key to creativity.”-Morita
113. “Human beings are the only creatures on the earth that allow their children to come back home.”-Bill Cosby.
114. “Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”~Albert Camus
115. "There's no end to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."-Florence Luscomb.
116. “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”-Elbert Hubbard.
117. “If you are not criticized, then you must not be doing very much.”- Donald Rumsfield.
118. “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain-and most fools do.”-Dale Carnegie.
119. “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”~Frank A. Clark.
120. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right-for you’ll be criticized anyway. You will be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”-Eleanor Roosevelt.
121. "One doesn't need to be a cook to criticize the cooking."-Samuel Johnson.
122. “Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections.
123. “Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown.”-Author Unknown
124. “There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure."-Bernard Baruch.
125. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” -Albert Einstein.
126. “What piques your curiosity? I am curious as to what causes one person to succeed while another person fails; this is why I’ve spent years studying success. What are you most curious about? The pursuit of your curiosity is the secret to your success.” -Albert Einstein.
127. “Most of our most successful managers are people who spend most of their time attending to the customers”-Peter Pritchard.
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