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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages
are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli


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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