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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Trent Reznor

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Orison Swett Marden

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Theodore Dreiser

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Erma Bombeck

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Barack Obama

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Desiderius Erasmus

Give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Harry S. Truman

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Dan Millman

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Margaret Mead

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

William Styron

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Chuck Klosterman

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargin.

Antonio Porchia

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Ludwig van Beethoven

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

Billy Graham

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Voltaire

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Alistair Cooke

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Anton Chekhov

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Spencer Haywood

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Elie Wiesel

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Natalie Goldberg

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

George F. Kennan

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Jim Morrison

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George MacDonald

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Ho Chi Minh

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Voltaire

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Stevie Wonder

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Michel de Montaigne

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

David Duchovny

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peter Ustinov

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Blaise Pascal

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Joan Baez

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Nikita Khrushchev

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Sam Ewing

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

James Thurber

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Andre Gide

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Og Mandino

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Adam Schiff

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Muhammad Ali

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Helen Rowland

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time itself comes in drops.

William James

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise L. Hay

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Let the dead bury the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance!

Henry Miller

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Will Rogers

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Elbert Hubbard

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor E. Frankl

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Henry David Thoreau

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Henry A. Kissinger

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Josh Billings

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Ramakrishna

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Dave Barry

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Steve Jobs

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

James Whistler

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Yogi Berra

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switzer

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Sophocles

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden

The lie is a condition of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Samuel Butler

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

William Bernbach

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Liv Tyler

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Will Rogers

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Jean Cocteau

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Gene Fowler

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefeller

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Rick Pitino

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Khalil Gibran

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

Ismail Haniyeh

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Richard M. Nixon

Use plants to bring life.

Douglas Wilson

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Barbara de Angelis

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Andre Breton

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Robert Frost

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Marquis de Sade

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Henry Ford

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

James Madison

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Helen Keller

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Baltasar Gracian

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Joseph Addison

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Ralph Nader

But time growing old teaches all things.

Aeschylus

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

Willie Aames

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The law has no power over heroes.

Charlotte Lennox

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Jack Benny

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Laurence J. Peter

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia M. Child

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Walter Scott

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Honore de Balzac

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Norman Vincent Peale

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

John Cleese

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Lord Chesterfield

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Willa Cather

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Katharine Hepburn

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