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When two or three are gathered in unison, when all awareness is in total harmony, something magical will happen.
— Daniel Chong, Secrets of the White Lake
You can be a loser all the time; but if you feel yourself like a winner, you will be a winner
— Annabel Navarro
We only live once. Well we might get to live more than just once but we don't and wouldn't know a thing about it even if we do. Therefor we should live our life to the fullest in this life time
— Tuul Bat
Sarah in the City of Moon is a children’s book debating humanity, tackling questions such as: are conflicts taught or are they innate?” – Dalia Qutob''Children are the best Legislators of the law and bylaw of love.''-Dalia Qutob
— Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob, Sarah in the City of Moon
Life is a mystery to be experienced, not solved.
— Anonymous
I have been waiting for many lifetimes to recognize that I am worthy and in one brief conversation I learned that I am simply because I was born. Worthiness is not earned, it is given as a result of birth.
— Monika Zands
We only get what we can deal with."The real voyage of discovery consists...in seeing with new eyes
— Sinéad Moriarty
Make your choiceMake your dreamsYou will find your wayAnd those will come true (Insya Allah)
— Siti Nurlaeli
I started living when I learnt to be patient with myself and others, I have learnt to forgive myself and others and I have learnt to continually cheer myself when the going gets tough.
— Stan The Man SA
Stop waiting for the permission to do your life's greatest work, the earth isn't getting any younger. Jump into action knowing that you are either running by God's side or God is running with you in his arms towards your goals, your dreams, and your destiny.
— Monika Zands
I truly understood the meaning of hope. It is something much bigger than anything physical we may desire. It’s about raising our eyes from a point on the horizon to the heavens and into eternity. And it’s about relying on God’s grace to do it, no matter what the cost.
— Laura Sobiech
Wherever you go, wherever you stay - there is eternity.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special.
— Anonymous
People cry not because they're weak, they cry because they've been strong for too long.
— idk who
When the Creator touches the Creation, the Creation becomes creative.
— Dustin Hedrick, The Warrior's Manual: The Ancient Path of the Warrior King for the Warrior Bride
To the determined mind, nothing is impossible
— Victor C. Victor
mathematical problems solved
—  feature problems solved...
Celebrate your life, this is your only life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver
— Peggi Speer and Tia Walker
Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
— Oscar Wilde
What if it were possible or even entertaining, to recreate and transform one of the old myths and infuse it with a different meaning?...Imagine being guided by your mythology that it is better to thrive and prosper, than just to survive.
— Robert William Case, Daedalus Rising - The True Story of Icarus
Finding your bliss can make survival seem like. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.
— Sharon Law Tucker, How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women
Humor is the honey in my tea.
— Marcia Sirota
As our parents often say, share your God-given gifts and talents to help others
— Tiara Tanishq Abraham 7yearold college prodigies
He (Daedalus) would follow that bearing, the sun on his shoulders and the past slipping away.
— Robert William Case, Daedalus Rising - The True Story of Icarus
You need to own the treasures you find in your soul.
— Deborah L. Hall, Million Dollar Moments ~ How To EXCELerate Your Life in 5 Minute Bursts of Brain Change
No one can see your visions and dreams as clearly as you can. Purpose is the key to creation manifested through vision.
— Kym Gordon Moore, Diversities of Gifts: Same Spirit
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
— Hariom Sisodia, The Magic of Referrals
Sophisticating meat eating doesn't make it any less savage.
— A.C. Bells
No matter how scary the road ahead may seem, never be afraid to chase your dreams.
— Melaina Rayne
I haven't failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
— Thomas A. Edison
People that you meet, are pebbles in your river, but those that you hold true shall follow your current, like a leaf atop a stream. The boulder that blocks your path however, you just have to be willing to climb, or break it down with time.
— Hieu
I didn't born to sit in the corner to cry on my luck , i was born to make the impossible possible..لم أولد لأجلس في الزاوية وأبكي على حظي ، لقد ولدت لأجعل من المستحيل ممكنا
— Hicham LM Kamelionaire
Your soul smiles
—  when your heart beats in harmony.
Don't be afraid of failure because failure can help you achieve your goals.
— Evan Ricafort
Follow your fears, behind the wall of your fears lies your dream !.إتبع مخاوفك، وراء جدار مخاوفك يكمن حلمك
— Hicham LM Kamelionaire
Follow ur mind not the rest of the world.اتبع عقلك وليس بقية العالم
— Hicham LM Kamelionaire
Have faith. Ye've so much for everyone else. Why not save some for yerself once in a while?
— Various
In the Valley of healing dreams
—  beyond human imagination - there was a long quiet river.
The divine light of our hearts will brighten the days of darkness.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Live life to the fullest
— Juanito D. Lalunio Jr.
when you pass beyond the point of no return , you will come back a different person..عندما تتجاوز ماوراء نقطة اللاعودة سوف تعود شخصا مختلفا
— Hicham LM Kamelionaire
sometimes you have to get rid of the Compass to find the shore..أحيانا عليك التخلص من البوصلة لتجد الشاطئ
— Hicham LM Kamelionaire
Sometimes your instinct takes you where your body can't..أحيانا غريزتك تأخذك إلى حيث لا يستطيع جسمك
— Hicham LM Kamelionaire
If your eyes dwell in your heart
—  then your inner voice will be your congenial Guide.
But with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument to dust. The only that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries of the universe, the very energy of which all things were conceived and with which all things will be sustained in a world beyond this world of time and dust and forgetting".
— Dean Koontz, Innocence
We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
She seemed out of place at the Fairweather. Too posh, as Susan said. Too well dressed. She never strolled along the shore or went bathing or brought a picture postcard. She just sat on the veranda all day with a book she never read, gazing out to sea. Probably wondering why on earth she came here. Susan had said. She looks as if she'd be more at home in Monte Carlo. I know- she's lost all her money gambling and she's waiting for the sea to warm up before she throws herself in. I hope she remembers to pay her bill first.
— Vivien Alcock, The Mysterious Mr. Ross
The ultimate test of a transformational leader is the ability to raise up a new generation of leaders.
— Jim Louwsma, The Art of Virtue-Based Transformational Leadership
Moments have fallen from your eyes, like tears written in the wind. There, on the river of knowledge, where you live from your memories.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
Happiness is learning to cope with stress effectively.
— Carol Desforges
Like the bees, we are - only looking for sweet honey in the flowers, we are -sensitive and at the same time carefully;but we never destroy them.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
What you misplace today, will misplace you tomorrow
— JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil.
— Michelle A. Lammers, Broken
The first and the last steps on the ladder of life are the most insightful.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, From Poet's Hand
Education Is the key to life don't let anyone stop you from reach your goals. Because everyone have potential to accomplish their #1 Goals.
— Mike "The Sweet One" Desert
Everyone should follow his predetermined path.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, From Poet's Hand
Which would be worse- to live as a monster, or to die as a free man?
— _
It's good to be contented but it's better to strive harder.
— Mari Mar Manuel
Jump and let's build our wings on the way down
— Ray Bradbury
They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he’d made upon waking up.
— James Dashner, The Kill Order
Your differences are what make you unique. They're what make you special. You have nothing in common with these ignorant retches who thrive on superstition and fear. You were meant for greatness.
— Ellen Oh, Prophecy
The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.
— Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams
— Gabriel García Márquez
You can't look dignified when you're having fun.
— Aaron Allston, Solo Command
Society collapses when no two come together as one; however, when things do come together true beauty can occur.
— James C. Reeves III
Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Even the darkest and stormiest sky will give way to a bright and beautiful sun.
— Mario J. Rocchetta, Make It Happen
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I've got 99 problems and I won't let you have the honor of being my 100th.
— Angelina Sedlacek
For something to be forbidden, Leila, someone must make it forbidden. Ask why. Always ask yourself why.
— Alex Stargazer, The Sandman
... and what happened next?
— Stories All-New Tales Neil Gaiman
Going into a marriage,is like jumping into unknown river with a lot of fishes. It is better to study the characters ofthe fishes that habits the unknown river,before getting into it.When you get so encited to go into the unknown river because you love swimming,the fishes in the river might be hungry  PIRANHAS.
— peter irabor
Significance is not determined by the amount of time on stage but by what you do with the time you get.
— Mansur Hasib
Jewelry of the clouds on the horizon; Seven circles are intertwined. A voice follows you without words; Soft footsteps, in the water of transience.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Do not wait to know you are dying before you start living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Desire is the key to your achievement and to your destiny.
— Euginia Herlihy
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
— Shaycarl Butler
Changes are the needs of your dream.
— Abhayam Verma Arya
If you are loyal to your time,finally the fate will be loyal to you.
— IqraI qbal
If you love something, set it free.If it comes back to you, It is yours.If it doesn't,It never was.
— Anonymous
I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.
— Ralph Wreck-it-Ralph
So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and a life-changing chaos,I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on.
— P.C. Cast, Untamed
Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
Outcome is not vital! All what matters is your effort and devotion towards it...!!
— Nehali Lalwani
The Universe is like a great ocean of Qi in which we are as rivers that drain into it. In a given moment, we may believe that we are only individual rivers, but when we join it, we realize that we were never separated from the ocean. Some of us emerge as wide and turbulent rivers. Others, as tranquil or as weak streams, but we’re never alone in our path. Whatever affects the ocean, affects the river and what affects the river, impacts the ocean.
— Ivan Figueroa-Otero
I'm alive with love in my heart.. I'm grateful for each moment.. With a little patience and god's grace I know everything in my life will work out on its own time!
— Nehali Lalwani
Where do I come from?We are the children of the Great Explosion of Love that begot the whole Universe. We bear a common lineage that unites us in its interminable matrix, that is manifested in all of the different and infinite dimensions, allowing us to participate in this unending co-creation with an attitude of loving co-responsibility. Who am I?I am a being of light (Love), with innumerable dimensional manifestations of shadings of Love and Life. The transitory experience within matter, time and space (human being) resides in those manifestations. This allows me the use of my free will in a co-responsible way in the co-creative process of life.
— Ivan Figueroa-Otero
When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference
— Annasophia Robb
Aim High and Hit the Mark
— Rosalinda Rosales Morgan, Bahala Na (Come What May): A World War II Story of Love, Faith, Courage, Determination and Survival
Life is what you make it and faith is what brings it to reality. -CF
— Carline Francois
When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.
— Heather Hart, Teen Devotionals...for Girls! Volume 2
Getting lost or losing grip gives life meaning and direction. It gives you the opportunity to grow, learn something new and startover. Next time you feel like your failing, slipping or just unsettled in life - take a deep breath - get in the moment of just "being" - feel the life run through your body - stand up and keep going.
— Claire Charters
Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.
— Albert Einstein
i can accept FAILURE,everyone falls at something.but what i can't accept is NOT TRYING.
— Micheal jordan
Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breath it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn't ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me. Isn't that the meaning of the lost sheep? We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him. I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold.
— Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries
For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.
— Vinita Kinra
A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it.
— Vinita Kinra
Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.
— Vinita Kinra
Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.
— Vinita Kinra
You can’t eat coconut without breaking its shell
—  you can’t succeed without breaking the cycle of failure.
3 P’s are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry.
— Vinita Kinra
Humanity is my religion
—  Earthian is my nationality.
Mirror reflects your outer beauty
—  behaviour reflects your inner beauty.
Money is scarce; spend if you have to, not because you want to.
— Vinita Kinra
When you feel big and powerful, stand before a mountain; when you feel small and weak, stand before an ant.
— Vinita Kinra
Winners are those who defeat defeat.
— Vinita Kinra
When you are in need, you are all alone indeed!
— Vinita Kinra
Change we must; if a river can, so can we.
— Vinita Kinra
You’ve got one life
—  do all you can to fulfill your passion. Everybody is gifted with a special talent.
Your existence depends on what you have, not what you are.
— Vinita Kinra
Always ask, ‘Do you love me?’ before saying, ‘I love you.
— Vinita Kinra
Love and hatred belong to the same plant: one is rose, the other is thorn.
— Vinita Kinra
You have only one true friend: that’s YOU!
— Vinita Kinra
Those who know you, don’t know you. Those who don’t know you, want to know you; and the cycle goes on.
— Vinita Kinra
The pen is mightier than the sword, for by the sword are mortal battles waged, but by the pen entire cultures swayed, eternal societies arrayed, and souls of men saved.
— Ilyan Kei Lavanway
Hard work is the engine that produces success. Hard work is success in realization.
— Elijah Aduh, Living Your Best Life Now: Maximizing Your Potential
You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
— Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
— Eugène Ionesco
Little things matter far more than big ones. We remember them longer. We can’t control the big things. If you think about what’s happened in the past, it will be the small moments that come to the forefront, not the big transitions. The big things were just history. The small moments are yours. The books those monks printed are still preserved centuries after they were gone. Little things matter.
— Joey W. Hill, Hostile Takeover
If you Never Give Up, you can Beat The Best !!
— Manu Pratap
If you Never Give Up, You can Beat The Best !! And in the end you become The Best.
— Manu Pratap TMPS
You are born to rule or to be ruled. It’s for you to decide which path to choose.
— Vinita Kinra
Don’t drown yourself in the pool of lies
—  fly high on the clouds of truth.
The journey you start now can take you on the adventure of a lifetime...it's up to you. Education is a life-long process. Determine now to never stop learning and to never give up on your dreams.
— Carol   Edwards
VISION without PROVISION is FRUSTRATION.
— Chiemezie Anyaeji
Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only YOU can be responsible for it. You have to invest in yourself, or no one else will.
— Stacy Charter
Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.
— Peter James West
The more challenges life deals us, the more scars experiences give us, the higher we go, the better we get.
— Vinita Kinra
Chase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails.
— Vinita Kinra
Imagine Himalayas without glaciers. Imagine 3 nuclear powers without water.
— Vinita Kinra
Perhaps the most pressing need for there to be a forever after, is because that is how long it will take man to thank his Creator for all His wondrous deeds.
— Sara Loo
They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don’t even own your own body.
— Vinita Kinra
Your success depends on how much fire of desire you have AND how much fuel of passion you feed it.
— Vinita Kinra
We must all understand that life holds a lot of broken bits and pieces. We have storms and trials and sometimes fall flat on our face. It is how we are able to create something from this that will enable us to love ourselves more. It will help us to feel complete, whole and beautiful and allow us to soar.
— Lorraine  Turner, Calico Horses and the Patchwork Trail
River water and talent can’t be stopped forever.
— Vinita Kinra
Togetherness is the key to success: a lone bee makes hardly any honey
—  a lone man makes hardly any money.
Trees are selfless, so all species thrive. If they were like humans, the world wouldn’t survive.
— Vinita Kinra
Life will be felt so "flat" without passion .
— Faiz Triumph
Beauty of trees is not judged by shape, size and species, then why ours?
— Vinita Kinra
Life and death are two banks of the same river. Time is the boat on which we travel from one to the other, over and over.
— Vinita Kinra
Those who try may not fail
—  but those who fail will not try.
Visions are for the Heavens to see.
— David Dweck
The Soul's sacred ground of being is the foundation for your doing. -- from the book, Doing a 360, page 135
— Nancy Ash
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
— Bob Dylan
Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from.
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership isn’t for you.
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Scars can actually be proof of a healing wound.
— Tessa Emily Hall, Purple Moon
Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
When all you see is darkness, turn to hope, and your heart will see the light.
— Milan Ljubincic
My father told us:The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself.
— Mariam Cheshire
Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
— Esther Freud, Etchings
The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give.
— Amanda Owen, The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve
We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don’t. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting like they have it all together really don’t.
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.
— Paulo Coelho
In life what you ASPIRE will TRANSPIRE—be it Loss or Gain, Sun or Rain, Joy or Pain. - RVM.
— R.v.m.
Vietnam was a noble cause imperfectly pursued
— Ronald Regan
To know who we are, we must first know we are LOVE.
— Milan Ljubincic
You can never miss your fate," Eleni would always say. "Even if it feels like it, it only means that your fate isn't what you thought.
— Andrea Thalasinos, Traveling Light
His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.
— Jean Thompson, The Humanity Project
What is inner peace but a deeply held belief that your current situation is exactly as it should be." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury
— L.R.W. Lee
Life is gassy you just have to blow through it to see clearly and if eventually you see through, don't be misleaded by what you see either good or bad.
— Mark Abraham
Trust is a good way to get oneself killed
— Lauren Kate, Fallen
Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Aft the more honour, forward the better man
— Horatio Nelson
Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.
— Norman Vincent Peale, You Can If You Think You Can
Roads go ever ever onUnder cloud and under starYet feet that wandering have goneTurn at last to home afar.Eyes that fire and sword have seenAnd horror in the halls of stoneLook at last on meadows greenAnd trees and hills they long have known.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Move on. Walk forward into the light.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel
— William Shakespeare
The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him.
— Selena Haskins, A River Moves Forward
That which you manifest is before you
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Your current life is the result of your previous choices, if you want something different, begin to choose differently.
— Joe Tichio, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 Days to More Happiness, Success and Motivation
When Life gives you a 100 reasons to Cry , show life that you have 1000 reasons to Smile
— Anisha D'souza
Where is our gift?Inside our heartWhat is our purpose?To open our heart and start giving our gift away
— Roxana Jones
How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you?
— Janet Dunnagan
Get Ready, Get Ready!
— Bishop T.D.Jakes
But you know what? Peace is just an idea. There will never be peace on Earth, at least, not the kind of kumbaya-harmony people envision. There can be ceasefires and treaties, but we will never know true peace. That's the sad truth of the world.
— June Gray, The Henry Sessions
...the human soul is a divine non-substance. A spirit that permeates our flesh, dwells in our conscious, and rules our subconscious self. It makes us cling to life even when we no longer want to embrace it. It makes us hope in the most desperate of circumstances. It gives our dream shape, our inspiration form, our love its timeless beauty." From The Cartesian Machine
— Nick  Tran, The Cartesian Machine
Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Be Chris LeDoux, Not Garth Brooks
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.
— Thomas Bernhard, Extinction
Don’t hang onto anything too tightly – all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.
— Rachael Bermingham
Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Show Us, Don’t Tell Us
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
So rest and relax and grow stronger, Let go and let God share your load, Your work is not finished or ended, You’ve just come to “a bend in the road”. “When you ask God for a gift, be thankful if He sends, not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.” “It takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.”  “When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart And your plans are upset and your world falls apart, Remember God’s ready and waiting to share The burden you find much to heavy to bear– So with faith, “Let Go and Let GOD” lead your way.
— Helen Steiner Rice
Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
— Carl Sandburg
You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?
— Artemus Withers
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
— Margaret Chase Smith
Abdication Isn’t Empowerment
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Finish Well
—  Anyone Can Start Well
Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
— Gautama Buddha
Whether it be in the sun, the rain, or the snow,You should always have fun, wherever you go.Think of all the amusing things you can do,To bring much laughter and happiness too.
— Susanne Alexander-Heaton, The ABC Field Guide to Faeries
If Everything’s a Rush, Nothing Is
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
If the devil cannot get you by SIN, he will seek to get you by IGNORANCE.
— Abayomi Aikulola
Seek the Blame
—  Give Away the Fame
Amazingly, if God calls us to do something, He will help us accomplish it. We may doubt or we may simply believe. God chooses us for a particular reason. He is STRETCHING us from the inside out....to reach the lost, to provide hope, to be like Jesus on earth.
— Dana Arcuri
Macromanage, Not Micromanage
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
The things I can't do are the things I have yet to learn.
— Barbara-Cooper Washington
The things I don't are the things I have yet to learn.
— Barbara-Cooper Washington
I stand for something. I stand for light. Even when I sleep!
— Matthew Maher
Although we look at ourself as One, in the real world we always experience ourself as TWO.
— Joey Lawsin
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
— José Ortega y Gasset
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
— Aesop
Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
— Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.
— Jennifer Crusie
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
— Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness. You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of enjoying. You would not be so frightened if I had spoken of happiness instead of pleasure: it sounds less shocking, and your mind wonders from the sty of Epicurus to his garden. But I will speak of pleasure, for I see that men aim at that, and I do not know that they aim at happiness. It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in giving alms he is charitable; if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.
— George Packer
Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.
— Deborah Day
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
— bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to remember. What else is there to guide us? Those values are our inheritance, what makes us who we are as a people. And although we recognize that they are subject to challenge, can be poked and prodded and debunked and turned inside out bu intellectuals and cultural critics, they have proven to be both surprisingly durable and surprisingly constant across classes, and races, and faiths, and generations. We can make claims on their behalf, so long as we understand that our values must be tested against fact and experience, so long as we recall that they demand deeds and not just words.
— Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
— Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!
— Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
— Max Barry, Company
The more choices you have, the more your values matter.
— Michael Schrage
Keep in Mind to be Kind.
— A. Volta
Truth itself is the best prudence.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad, The Third World: Country or People
Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place.
— James Burnham, Suicide of the West
It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.
— Connie Willis, Bellwether
Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and ore qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.
— Imre Kertész
A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
...We are reviled, much like black conservatives and any other minority group that says ‘no’ to the Left’s victimhood politics....It’s amazing that being a homosexual who believes in small government and personal accountability can get you banned from a Manhattan Chinese restaurant.
— Chadwick Moore
Every couple of months or so, some boundary breaking article comes out in a nationally published magazine. The article makes a big thesis statement about relationships. Like say how, women don’t need men anymore, or how if you’re a woman over thirty-five, you should just settle with whatever guy is half-way nice to you, or how monogamy is not feasible, or plausible, or enjoyable, for any human. And we should all be swingers, or a study is released that say’s, you don’t have to love your kids anymore or something. They’re the kind of articles that are e-mailed everywhere and I get them forwarded to me about eight times. I will read one of these articles and immediately afterward I’m so swept up in it, I can’t help but think Yes, Yes, that is one-hundred percent right. Finally! Someone has confirmed that little voice in the back of my mind that has always not loved my kids, or I’m so happy I’m that much closer to my swinging lifestyle I’ve always secretly been craving. I’m normal and now it’s a national discussion and others agree and I can feel normal now. But then, a week later I’m thinking, I hate this. I feel awful. This wretched little magazine article has helped convinced more open minded liberal arts graduates that, the nuclear family doesn’t exist without some hideous twist, like the dad is allowed to go to an S & M dungeon once a week or something. It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it’s cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Many millennials...feel “unsafe” if someone they disagree with speaks at an event they don’t have to attend on their campus....they’re trying to figure out what gender they are and which bathroom they should be using. It’s not an improvement....Snowflakes may melt when the going gets tough, but kids who are taught good, conservative values will stand tall even when it’s not easy.
— John Hawkins
Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone’s potential, talent and position in history.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
A gentleman is not a pot.
— Confucius, The Analects
My ethical values prevent me from investing in the stock market.
— Steven Magee
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is values that dictate your responses.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is values that tell you what your pattern and values must be on daily bases.
— Sunday Adelaja
Our values are as a result of the information you respond to on regular basis.
— Sunday Adelaja
Values come to you by what you hear.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is values that form our decisions.
— Sunday Adelaja
The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society.
— Sunday Adelaja
Value system also comes from the mass media of the land.
— Sunday Adelaja
Value systems of a nation come from families.
— Sunday Adelaja
The values of a nation can be made from the pulpit of the land.
— Sunday Adelaja
Once value-laden facts become acceptable, then things like "racist facts" become acceptable, too – and then it becomes acceptable to reject any factual statement not because it is false, but because it is "racist”. Thus, any Obama-esque "national conversation about race" becomes impossible.
— Mike Klepper
Values are like a pilot’s flight plan . . . without them you’re flying blind.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another’s value. It is easier to define yourself as ‘not that,’ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.
— Jessa Crispin, Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
It was a cultural revolution, and was not directed at instituting economic changes. He could thus appeal to old prejudices without threatening the existing economic system. This appealed, above all, to white-collar workers and the small entrepreneurs, as some of the statistics presented in this book will demonstrate. It was their kind of revolution: the ideology would give them a new status, free them from isolation in the industrial society, and give them a purpose in life. But it would not threaten any of their vested interests; indeed it would reinforce their bourgeois predilections toward family...and restore the 'good old values' which had been so sadly dismantled by modernity.
— George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich
No time for monsters.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Run Harry, Run
God calls a man, ‘man’ only if he identifies himself with God’s values ad stands for truth and justice
— Sunday Adelaja
The invisible things are the value system.
— Sunday Adelaja
Churches should teach people on our to value eternal virtues.
— Sunday Adelaja
Eternal values are much more everlasting than the temporary physical material things.
— Sunday Adelaja
Of what use is money, if not spent on charityOf what use is prayer, if it is not for someone elseOf what use is your body, if it not to help someone Of what use is your intellect, if it is not for teaching othersOf what use is your smile, if it does not light up others livesAndof what use is your life, if it is not to transform others' lives!
— Uma Shanker
The truly wealthy don't often pursue status. They don't need to. They have already made it. The pursuit of Rolex watches and $100,000 vehicles is for wannabes like you and me. Why pursue status when you've already achieved it?
— Erik Wecks, How to Manage Your Money When You Don't Have Any
Not to embrace the kingdom values is not to be motivated
— Sunday Adelaja
Let’s downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.
— Sunday Adelaja
Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.
— Sunday Adelaja
The value system of a country comes from the educational system.
— Sunday Adelaja
The value system of a country comes from the pulpit.
— Sunday Adelaja
I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter
I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension. Do you want me? I am yours.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter
Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Halloween Nightmares
The man smiled. "Harry is unique, for he was born with a special gift of sight, with eyes able to see things that are unseen. He has talents to move matter by the sound of his voice.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Halloween Nightmares
Not accustomed to entertaining angels, are we?” he asked.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Halloween Nightmares
It is difficult to understand the journey of a hero,” the whisperer said.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Halloween Nightmares
A hero is someone who is selfless.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Good Mischief
Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects.
— John Shearman, Mannerism
Do you want me? I am yours.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter
If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
In her focus on personal comfort, she had forgotten about eternal values.
— Amanda Tero, Befriending the Beast
In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.
— Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.
— Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.
— Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Strong brands are built on unshakable values and authenticity.
— Simone Smith
The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the universal against the precariousness of the individual. When the values that were once so solid come under challenge and withdraw, heads bowed, he who cannot live without them (without fidelity, family, country, discipline, without love) buttons himself up in the universality of his uniform as if that uniform were the last shred of transcendence that could protect him against the cold of a future in which there will be nothing left to respect.
— Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
As we go through life, we essentially grow a personality. Our personality branches out in many directions to assist us organize our thoughts, feelings, values, ideas, and coping mechanisms. Our exhibited behavior – the way we organize and deal with life – becomes an external representation of our central self.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Values are the definition of our actions in life
— Armin Houman
It is all about value. For good outcomes, we have to value the right things to make the best choices.
— R.A.Delmonico
If EXCELLENCE is one of your values, not only you self-critic and evaluate your performance consistently, you BEG others for honest feedback...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership