• Failures are those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
• One of the great arts of living is the art of forgiving.
• A man will follow your footsteps more than your advice.
• If it is to be, it is up to me.
• You can go anywhere if you build a road.
• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
• Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.
• It’s not what we gain but what we give that measures the worth of the life we live.
• Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
• It’s not life that weighs us down – it’s the way we carry it.
• The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it’s dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
• The greatest risk is not taking one
• Most of us love someone from our need to love, not because we find someone deserving of love.
• Ignorance was determined by how much information one had. It was not a measure of intelligence or character.
• Success is the culmination of the failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion and the determination to keep going anyway.
• The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
• Don’t ask ‘What if it doesn’t work?’ Instead ask, ‘ How will I feel if I don’t even try?’.
• What you do best is probably so easy you underestimate its value.
• You may give without loving. But, you can’t love without giving.
• Hitting the ceiling isn’t the best way to “get up” in the world.
• Time is the wages of life: invest it, don’t spend it.
• People who stretch the truth often find it snaps back.
• Success isn’t in holding a good hand. But, in playing a poor hand well.
• If we are to truly bury the hatchet, we must bury the handle as well.
• Admitting you’re wrong is like saying you’re wiser today than you were yesterday.
• We should strive to preserve the fires of the past, not the ashes.
• You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time by sitting down.
• Maturity is the stage of life when you don’t see eye to eye. But, can walk arm in arm.
• Some minds are like concrete – all mixed up and permanently set.
• People who wait for their ship to come in, usually are waiting at the wrong dock.
• The best way to keep good deeds in memory is to keep them refreshed with new ones.
• You’ll never do anything by starting tomorrow.
• The very best type of treasure is the friend who is a pleasure.
• Some men are driven by dreams, while others run from their nightmares.
• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is a delay, not a defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing.
• Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
• Those curveballs are always coming – eventually; you learn to hit some of them.
• You will move mountains if you bring the shovel.
• Humility is not thinking less of your self; it is thinking of yourself less.
• Getting people to follow orders is not leading! A true leader inspires people to do their best.
• A six word formula for success: Think things through – then follow through.
• If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
• The only way to enjoy anything in life it to earn it first.
• Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do.
• Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
• Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.
• A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked.
• A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
• After all is said and done, more is said than done.
• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
• He who angers you controls you!
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
• He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
• He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail.
• He who is not grateful for the good things he has would not be happy with what he wishes he had.
• Humans are like tea bags. They never realize their strength until they are put in hot water.
• Killing time murders opportunities.
• Learn to listen, opportunity often knocks softly.
• Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it.
• Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
• Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space. Its up to you to fill it.
• Live by what you trust, not by what you fear.
• Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
• Love is not finding a perfect person, it is seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own.
• Love: the only game that two can play and both can win.
• Love was not put in your heart to stay. Love is not love until you give it away.
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will stay in your thoughts.
• Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales representatives out to different parts of the Australian outback to see if they could drum up some business among the Aborigines. Some time later, the company received telegrams from both agents. The first said, "No business here . . . natives don't wear shoes." The second one said, "Great opportunity here . . . natives don't wear shoes!"
• Most of our suspicions of others are aroused by our knowledge of ourselves.
• Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.
• My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
• My interest is in the future because I am going to spend a lot of my life there.
• Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they will beat you with experience.
• Nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan.
• No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
• No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, you can always turn around.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Not everything that you face can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
• Remember that failure is an event - not a person.
• Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good firm push.
• Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, And finds it in your presence that life is worth while, So when your lonely.... remember it's true, Somebody somewhere is thinking of you.
• Success is a ladder that can not be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
• The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
• The bank of friendship cannot exist for long without deposits.
• The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
• Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
• To accomplish something, the first person you have to defeat is yourself.
• To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
• Failures are those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
• One of the great arts of living is the art of forgiving.
• A man will follow your footsteps more than your advice.
• If it is to be, it is up to me.
• You can go anywhere if you build a road.
• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
• Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.
• It’s not what we gain but what we give that measures the worth of the life we live.
• Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
• It’s not life that weighs us down – it’s the way we carry it.
• The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it’s dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
• The greatest risk is not taking one
• Most of us love someone from our need to love, not because we find someone deserving of love.
• Ignorance was determined by how much information one had. It was not a measure of intelligence or character.
• Success is the culmination of the failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion and the determination to keep going anyway.
• The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
• Don’t ask ‘What if it doesn’t work?’ Instead ask, ‘ How will I feel if I don’t even try?’.
• What you do best is probably so easy you underestimate its value.
• You may give without loving. But, you can’t love without giving.
• Hitting the ceiling isn’t the best way to “get up” in the world.
• Time is the wages of life: invest it, don’t spend it.
• People who stretch the truth often find it snaps back.
• Success isn’t in holding a good hand. But, in playing a poor hand well.
• If we are to truly bury the hatchet, we must bury the handle as well.
• Admitting you’re wrong is like saying you’re wiser today than you were yesterday.
• We should strive to preserve the fires of the past, not the ashes.
• You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time by sitting down.
• Maturity is the stage of life when you don’t see eye to eye. But, can walk arm in arm.
• Some minds are like concrete – all mixed up and permanently set.
• People who wait for their ship to come in, usually are waiting at the wrong dock.
• The best way to keep good deeds in memory is to keep them refreshed with new ones.
• You’ll never do anything by starting tomorrow.
• The very best type of treasure is the friend who is a pleasure.
• Some men are driven by dreams, while others run from their nightmares.
• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is a delay, not a defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing.
• Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
• Those curveballs are always coming – eventually; you learn to hit some of them.
• You will move mountains if you bring the shovel.
• Humility is not thinking less of your self; it is thinking of yourself less.
• Getting people to follow orders is not leading! A true leader inspires people to do their best.
• A six word formula for success: Think things through – then follow through.
• If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
• The only way to enjoy anything in life it to earn it first.
• Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do.
• Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
• Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.
• A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked.
• A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
• After all is said and done, more is said than done.
• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
• He who angers you controls you!
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
• He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
• He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail.
• He who is not grateful for the good things he has would not be happy with what he wishes he had.
• Humans are like tea bags. They never realize their strength until they are put in hot water.
• Killing time murders opportunities.
• Learn to listen, opportunity often knocks softly.
• Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it.
• Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
• Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space. Its up to you to fill it.
• Live by what you trust, not by what you fear.
• Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
• Love is not finding a perfect person, it is seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own.
• Love: the only game that two can play and both can win.
• Love was not put in your heart to stay. Love is not love until you give it away.
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will stay in your thoughts.
• Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales representatives out to different parts of the Australian outback to see if they could drum up some business among the Aborigines. Some time later, the company received telegrams from both agents. The first said, "No business here . . . natives don't wear shoes." The second one said, "Great opportunity here . . . natives don't wear shoes!"
• Most of our suspicions of others are aroused by our knowledge of ourselves.
• Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.
• My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
• My interest is in the future because I am going to spend a lot of my life there.
• Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they will beat you with experience.
• Nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan.
• No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
• No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, you can always turn around.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Not everything that you face can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
• Remember that failure is an event - not a person.
• Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good firm push.
• Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, And finds it in your presence that life is worth while, So when your lonely.... remember it's true, Somebody somewhere is thinking of you.
• Success is a ladder that can not be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
• The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
• The bank of friendship cannot exist for long without deposits.
• The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
• Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
• To accomplish something, the first person you have to defeat is yourself.
• To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
• Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you don't
  have a leg to stand on.
• Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
• Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
• Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
• If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
• If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• Never buy a car you can't push.
• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
• You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
• We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
• Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
• A lecturer was giving a lecture to his students on stress management.
  
  He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, "How heavy do you think this glass of water is?"
  
  The students' answers ranged from 20g to 500gm.
  
  "It does not matter on the absolute weight. It depends on how long you hold it.
  
  If I hold it for a minute, it is OK.
  
  If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm.
  
  If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance.
  
  It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."
  
  "If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier."
  
  "What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again."
  
  We have to put down the burden periodically, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on.
  
  So before you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow.
  
  Whatever burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for a moment if you can.
  
  Pick it up again later when you have rested...
  
  Rest and relax.
  
  Life is short, enjoy it!!
• My mind contains many good ideas, but it is not always easy to squeeze one out.
• Man and the turtle are very much alike. Neither makes any progress without sticking his neck out.
• Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
• Love is not a game, so don't be a player.
• Never run from your fears. Because when they catch up to you your to tired to fight.
• It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty
• Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing
• The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position
• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
• Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.
• The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
• Three kinds of people: The ones who learn by reading. The ones who learn by observation. And the rest of them who have to touch the fire themselves to learn if it's really hot
• Among the things you can give and still keep are your word and a smile.
• Some people grin and bear it.  Others smile and change it.
• The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
• As intelligence increases speech decreases
• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment
• Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier then putting it back in.
• If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.
• If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
• The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.

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