A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
- Anonymous
All the mistakes I've made, all the follies I've witnessed,
all the errors I've committed have been the result of action without thought.
- Anonymous
Bad things happen when good people stay silent.
- Anonymous
A diplomat always thinks twice before saying nothing and
a good diplomat always let's people have his own way.
- Anonymous
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
- Anonymous
Patience is never more important than when you're
on the verge of losing it.
- Anonymous
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Anonymous
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
- Anonymous
The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present,
plan for the future, and profit from the past.
- Anonymous
You can't build a relationship with a hammer.
- Anonymous
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop
Being humble doesn't mean one has to be a mat.
- Maya Angelou
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
- Richard Bach
The more one judges, the less one loves.
- Honore De Balzac
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason;
a judgment, without having heard the argument;
a feeling, without being able to trace whence it came.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
I can't give you the formula for success; I can for failure:
try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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There is no waste of time like making explanations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The making of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems,
it's whether it has the same problems it had last year.
- John Foster Dulles
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems
than in trying to solve them.
- Henry Ford
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
- Victor Frankl
Sticks and stones can break my bones,
but words can break my heart.
- Robert Fulghum
Don't fight forces. Use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Man is made by his beliefs. As he believes, so he is.
- Bhagavad Gita
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Regret for things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sydney J. Harris
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
- Eric Hoffer
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
- William James
To change one's life, start immediately,
do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.
- William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging prejudices.
- William James
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past,
but to fix the course for the future.
- John F. Kennedy
I destroy my enemy by making him my friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
It takes less time to do something right than to explain why
it was done wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We should learn from the mistakes of others.
We don't have time to make them all ourselves.
- Groucho Marx
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that has.
- Margaret Mead
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand that is dealt you represents determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawahareal Nehru
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
People are usually more convinced by reasons
they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
- Blaise Pascal
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
Control your emotions, or they will control you.
- Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge;
argument an exchange of emotion.
- Robert Quillen
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross
and which bridge to burn.
- David Russell
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- Seneca
Mend your speech a little, lest you mar your fortunes.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life.
Most of them never happened.
- Mark Twain
There is much to be said for not saying much.
- Frank Tyger
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Booker T. Washington
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.
- Aviation Pioneer, Chuck Yeager
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