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"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring." 
— François de La Rochefoucauld
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." 
— Richard Needham
"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life." 
— Cynthia Ozick
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." 
— Jonas Salk
"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." 
— Thomas Edison
"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head." 
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." 
— Walt Whitman
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." 
— Brooks Adams
"Nothing happens unless first we dream." 
— Carl Sandburg
"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth." 
— Peter Abelard
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." 
— Laozi
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." 
— Margaret Laurence
"Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." 
— Max Frisch
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." 
— Oscar Wilde
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." 
— Norman Vincent Peale
"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity." 
— Og Mandino
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find." 
— Francis Bacon
"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense." 
— Julian Casablancas
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." 
— John Dewey
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." 
— Isocrates
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." 
— Rumi
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." 
— Colin Powell
"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed." 
— Zhuang Zhou
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." 
— Colin Powell
"Do what you can. Want what you have. Be who you are." 
— Forrest Church
"Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." 
— Laozi
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." 
— Albert Einstein
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." 
— Doris Mortman
"Cleverness is not wisdom." 
— Euripides
"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations." 
— Albert Einstein
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." 
— Richard Bach
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." 
— Henry Ford
"Silence is a source of great strength." 
— Laozi
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." 
— Sam Rayburn
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention." 
— Rudolf Arnheim
"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." 
— Laozi
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." 
— Lena Horne
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." 
— Sigmund Freud
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." 
— Donald Trump
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." 
— Will Rogers
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." 
— Anne Frank
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." 
— Judy Garland
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way." 
— Christopher Morley
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." 
— Thomas Hardy
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." 
— Albert Camus
"The wisest men follow their own direction." 
— Euripides
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." 
— Napoleon
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." 
— William Shakespeare
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." 
— W. Clement Stone
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." 
— Henry Ward Beecher
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." 
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." 
— B. F. Skinner
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." 
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature." 
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted." 
— Laozi
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." 
— Joseph Addison
"The only journey is the one within." 
— Rainer Maria Rilke
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy." 
— Brian Tracy
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." 
— Edward Gibbon
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." 
— Tony Robbins
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." 
— Muhammad Ali
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." 
— Iris Murdoch
"All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out." 
— Albert Camus
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more" 
— Tony Robbins
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." 
— John Dryden
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." 
— Tony Robbins
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." 
— Leo Buscaglia
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." 
— Isocrates
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." 
— Alexander Pope
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love is a friendship set to music." 
— Joseph Campbell
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." 
— Blaise Pascal
"Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could." 
— Charles Dickens
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." 
— Confucius
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." 
— Lucille Ball
"Things do not change; we change." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." 
— Alfred North Whitehead
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." 
— Brian Tracy
"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it." 
— Gustave Flaubert
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." 
— Paul Tillich
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." 
— Plutarch
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." 
— Robert Fulghum
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." 
— Woody Allen
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." 
— Albert Einstein
"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue" 
— Confucius
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action." 
— Confucius
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." 
— Aldous Huxley
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time." 
— Jean de La Fontaine
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge." 
— Masayoshi Son
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when." 
— Simon Sinek
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." 
— Simone de Beauvoir
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody." 
— Herbert Bayard Swope
"A single lamp may light hundreds of thousands of lamps without itself being diminished." 
— The Buddha
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." 
— Douglas Adams
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." 
— Robert F. Kennedy
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." 
— Jean de La Fontaine
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." 
— Abraham Maslow
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." 
— Albert Einstein
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." 
— Albert Einstein
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." 
— Ben Stein
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." 
— Laurence J. Peter
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"To have much learning and skill, to be well-trained in discipline, and good in speech — this is the highest blessing." 
— The Buddha
"Independence is happiness." 
— Susan B. Anthony
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." 
— Coco Chanel
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." 
— Thomas Aquinas
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." 
— Stephen Hawking
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." 
— Laozi
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." 
— William Cowper
"You won't skid if you stay in a rut." 
— Kin Hubbard
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." 
— Walter Lippmann
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" 
— George S. Patton
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends" 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." 
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing." 
— Laozi
"Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition." 
— Plotinus
"Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes." 
— Dalai Lama
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." 
— Richard Bach
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." 
— Oscar Wilde
"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship." 
— Harbhajan Singh
"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." 
— Doug Horton
"So much technology, so little talent." 
— Vernor Vinge
"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts." 
— Alan Cohen
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." 
— Ambrose Bierce
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves." 
— Carl Jung
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." 
— Napoleon Hill
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness." 
— Chanakya
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." 
— Eustace Budgell
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." 
— Thomas Carlyle
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." 
— Audre Lorde
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." 
— Isocrates
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day." 
— John Wooden
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against." 
— Bruce Lee
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." 
— Dale Carnegie
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." 
— Henry James
"When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself." 
— Confucius
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." 
— Thomas Dewar
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." 
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." 
— John F. Kennedy
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." 
— David Brinkley
"You must do the things you think you cannot do." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." 
— Marie Curie
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." 
— Plutarch
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." 
— Voltaire
"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." 
— Walter Cronkite
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." 
— Jim Morrison
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." 
— Confucius
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." 
— Zig Ziglar
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control." 
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." 
— John Wooden
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." 
— Henry J. Kaiser
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort." 
— John Ruskin
"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity." 
— Augustine of Hippo
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." 
— Robert M. Pirsig
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." 
— Lewis Carroll
"A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies." 
— Confucius
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship." 
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." 
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Never, never, never give up." 
— Winston Churchill
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." 
— François de La Rochefoucauld
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." 
— E. M. Forster
"All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable." 
— Kathleen Norris
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." 
— Victor Hugo
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." 
— John Lennon
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" 
— Sun Tzu
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." 
— Pope John XXIII
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." 
— Epictetus
"All serious daring starts from within." 
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities." 
— Bruce Lee
"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances." 
— Daisaku Ikeda
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." 
— Edmund Burke
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." 
— Winston Churchill
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." 
— Charles Caleb Colton
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life." 
— Ravi Zacharias
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." 
— Mother Teresa
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." 
— Samuel Johnson
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade." 
— Dale Carnegie
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." 
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." 
— Richard Bach
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." 
— Rumi
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." 
— Confucius
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." 
— Aristotle
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." 
— Harold Nicolson
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other." 
— Tony Robbins
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." 
— Winston Churchill
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." 
— Confucius
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason." 
— Thomas Paine
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." 
— Seneca the Younger
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." 
— Niels Bohr
"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink." 
— Sophocles
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense." 
— Thomas Edison
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." 
— Frank Lloyd Wright
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." 
— Sun Tzu
"All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream." 
— John Eliot
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." 
— Cicero
"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." 
— Barbara De Angelis
"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything." 
— Blaise Pascal
"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be." 
— Lou Holtz
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." 
— Plutarch
"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" 
— Richard Bach
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do." 
— Dhammapada
"If you wish to be a writer, write." 
— Epictetus
"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work." 
— Dalai Lama
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." 
— Lauren Bacall
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun." 
— Franz Grillparzer
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." 
— Ernest Hemingway
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." 
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." 
— Richard Bach
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Well done is better than well said." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." 
— Mary Kay Ash
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." 
— Cicero
"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort." 
— Epictetus
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." 
— Helen Keller
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." 
— Indira Gandhi
"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." 
— Laozi
"Do more than dream: work." 
— William Arthur Ward
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." 
— Sam Levenson
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." 
— Desmond Tutu
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings." 
— John Astin
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." 
— Marie Curie
"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like." 
— Napoleon Hill
"By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it." 
— Nikos Kazantzakis
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." 
— Vince Lombardi
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." 
— Hubert Humphrey
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." 
— Napoleon Hill
"As you think, so shall you become." 
— Bruce Lee
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." 
— Lou Holtz
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." 
— Eden Phillpotts
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." 
— Louise Hay
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." 
— Molière
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." 
— Albert Schweitzer
"Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close." 
— Daisaku Ikeda
"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil." 
— Benjamin Haydon
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." 
— Dale Carnegie
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" 
— Rabbi Hillel
"Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together." 
— Mariella Frostrup
"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." 
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." 
— William Lyon Phelps
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all." 
— Winston Churchill
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." 
— Richard Bach
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." 
— Napoleon Hill
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." 
— Vernon Cooper
"Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful." 
— Harvey Mackay
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." 
— George Eliot
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." 
— William C. Menninger
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." 
— Jonathan Kozol
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer." 
— Albert Camus
"Who sows virtue reaps honor." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself." 
— Liberace
"Each day provides its own gifts." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." 
— Amelia Earhart
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions." 
— Samuel Johnson
"To follow, without halt, one aim: There is the secret of success." 
— Anna Pavlova
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." 
— Barack Obama
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." 
— Dale Turner
"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense." 
— Joyce Meyer