Habit Quotes

First we form habits then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you.”
Dr. Rob Gilbert

"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes neccessity."
St. Augustine

"The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it."
Leo Aikman

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts."
Aristotle

"Feeling sorry for yourself and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."
Dale Carnegie

"There are two types of habits: ones which comfort us, and ones which would be a comfort if we stopped."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them."
Confucius

"The most destructive habit.........................Worry"
Author Unknown

"Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed."
Goethe

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about. "
John Irving

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
John Dryden

"Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
Vince Lombardi

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
Jim Rohn

"Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit."
Victoria Moran

"Beginning today, make it a habit to count your blessings everyday."
Shadonna Richards

"You cannot expect to attain success if you are not prepared. Life has a habit of giving back rewards in proportion to the effort we expend."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Today, many will choose to free themselves from the personal imprisonment of their bad habits. Why not you?"
Steve Maraboli

"As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge."
Henry van Dyke

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
W. Somerset Maugham

"Break a bad habit - Drop it."
Author Unknown

"Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow."
Yiddish Proverb

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
Samuel Johnson

"I nver could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."
Charles Dickens

"Habit is a cable, we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it."
Horace Mann

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
Francis Bacon

"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last."
Chinese Proverb

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
Author Unknown

"Develop the habit of focusing on the possibilities, not the problems."
David DeNotaris

"Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."
Charles Reade

"Cultivate the habit of laughter."
Og Mandino

"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
George W. Carver

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."
Napoleon Hill

"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
Benjamin Franklin

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
Stephen R. Covey

"Old habits die hard."
Proverb

"Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits."
Wanda Carter

"Breaking old habits is easy to say, but much harder to do."

Catherine Pulsifer

"Watch your actions, for they become habits."
Frank Outlaw

"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you."
Frank Crane

Andrew Carnegie Quotes

    Andrew Carnegie

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Andrew Carnegie

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie

There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
Andrew Carnegie

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Andrew Carnegie

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
Andrew Carnegie

Aim for the highest.
Andrew Carnegie

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Andrew Carnegie

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Andrew Carnegie

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew Carnegie

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Andrew Carnegie

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Andrew Carnegie

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Andrew Carnegie

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Andrew Carnegie

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie

Les Brown Quotes

    Les Brown 

"Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you."
Les Brown

"It's important to me that money not be important to me."
Les Brown

"When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues."
Les Brown

"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow."
Les Brown

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."
Les Brown

"Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!"
Les Brown

"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life." Les Brown

"You gotta be hungry!"
Les Brown

"Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you."
Les Brown

"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."
Les Brown

"You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are."
Les Brown

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
Les Brown

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Les Brown

"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change." Les Brown

"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die."
Les Brown

"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams."
Les Brown

"The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience."
Les Brown

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." Les Brown

"Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you."
Les Brown

"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams."
Les Brown

"Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential."
Les Brown

"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness."
Les Brown

"Act the way you want to be and soon you'll be the way you act."
Les Brown

"You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path."
Les Brown

"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."
Les Brown

"Forgive those who have hurt you."
Les Brown

"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present."
Les Brown

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
Les Brown

"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness."
Les Brown

"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
Les Brown

"All of us need to grow continuously in our lives."
Les Brown

"Honor your commitments with integrity."
Les Brown

"In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait."
Les Brown

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
Les Brown

"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."
Les Brown

"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."
Les Brown

"If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness."
Les Brown

"Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead."
Les Brown

"When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues."
Les Brown

"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."
Les Brown

"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."
Les Brown

"I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames."
Les Brown

"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."
Les Brown

"Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead."
Les Brown

"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."
Les Brown

"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."
Les Brown

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
Les Brown

"You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path."
Les Brown

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
Les Brown

"You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature."
Les Brown

"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."
Les Brown

"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."
Les Brown

"Change is difficult but often essential to survival."
Les Brown

"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."
Les Brown

"Goals help you channel your energy into action."
Les Brown

"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."
Les Brown

"I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom."
Les Brown

"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present."
Les Brown

"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
Les Brown

"If you don't program yourself, life will program you."
Les Brown

George Eliot Quotes

    George Eliot 

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
George Eliot

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
George Eliot

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot

It's never too late to be who you might have been.
George Eliot

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot


Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
George Eliot

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

Jimmy Carter Quotes

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
Jimmy Carter

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
Jimmy Carter

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Jimmy Carter

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Jimmy Carter

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter

Eminem Quotes

A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Eminem

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
Eminem

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
Eminem

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
Eminem

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Eminem

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
Eminem

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
Eminem

I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Eminem

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Eminem

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Eminem

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
Eminem

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Eminem

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
Eminem

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Eminem

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Eminem

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
Eminem


It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
Eminem

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Eminem

My only scheme was to be a rapper.
Eminem

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
Eminem

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
Eminem

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Eminem

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
Eminem

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Eminem

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
Eminem

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
Eminem

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
Eminem

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

George Washington Quotes

George Washington

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
George Washington

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
George Washington

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George Washington

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George Washington

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
George Washington

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
George Washington

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington

English Proverbs

Many hands make light work.
English Proverb

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
English Proverb

A bad penny always turns up.
English Proverb

Grasp no more than thy hand will hold.
English Proverb

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
English Proverb

Actions speak louder than words.
English Proverb

You are never to old to learn.
English Proverb

A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired.
English Proverb

A stumble may prevent a fall.
English Proverb

If you want to judge a man's character, give him power.
English Proverb

If wishes were horses beggars might ride.
English Proverb

Everyone must row with the oars he has.
English Proverb

A stitch in time saves nine.
English Proverb

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
English Proverb

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
English Proverb

It's a blessing in disguise.
English Proverb

Least said is soonest mended.
English Proverb

You never know what you can do until you try.
English Proverb

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
English Proverb

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
English Proverb

One of these days is none of these days.
English Proverb

Elbow grease is the best polish.
English Proverb

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
English Proverb

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
English Proverb

All happiness is in the mind.
English Proverb

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
English Proverb

It's never too late to mend.
English Proverb

Patience wears away stones.
English Proverb

Knock on wood.
English Proverb

A good example is the best sermon.
English Proverb

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
English Proverb

Don't cross your bridges before you get to them.
English Proverb

In for a penny, in for a pound.
English Proverb

Slow and steady wins the race.
English Proverb

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be running after it all day.
English Proverb

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
English Proverb

All good things come to those who wait.
English Proverb

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English Proverb

Japanese Proverbs

Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.

Japanese Proverb

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

Japanese Proverb

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Proverb

Let what is past flow away downstream.

Japanese Proverb

Adversity is the foundation of virtue.

Japanese Proverb

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Proverb

You can know ten things by learning one.

Japanese Proverb

Ten men, ten minds.

Japanese Proverb

When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well.

Japanese Proverb

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Japanese Proverb

When the character of a man is not clear to you,look at his friends.

Japanese Proverb

Better to be a crystal and to be broken, than to be a tile upon the housetop.

Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese Proverb

Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.

Japanese Proverb

There are no national frontiers to learning.

Japanese Proverb

Everyone makes mistakes. That's why there is an eraser on every pencil.
Japanese Proverb

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.
Japanese Proverb

If you wait, there will come nectar - like fair weather.
Japanese Proverb

Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.
Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

Proof rather than argument.
Japanese Proverb

An ant hole may collapse an embankment.
Japanese Proverb

Time flies like an arrow.
Japanese Proverb

Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.
Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Japanese Proverb

Some people like to make of life a garden, and to walk only within its paths.
Japanese Proverb

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb

Without oars, you cannot cross in a boat.
Japanese Proverb

The inarticulate speak longest.
Japanese Proverb

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Japanese Proverb

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
Japanese Proverb

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Japanese Proverb

Virtue is not knowing but doing.
Japanese Proverb

Money grows on the tree of persistence.
Japanese Proverb

It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing.
Japanese Proverb

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
Japanese Proverb

Fortune will call at the smiling gate.
Japanese Proverb

To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.
Japanese Proverb

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
Japanese Proverb

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Japanese Proverb

If you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.
Japanese Proverb

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted.
Japanese Proverb

Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.
Japanese Proverb

With the first glass a man drinks wine, with the second glass the wine drinks the wine, with the third glass the wine drinks the man.
Japanese Proverb

Do you need proof of God? Does one light a torch to see the sun?
Japanese Proverb

One cannot quarrel without an opponent.
Japanese Proverb

Yiddish Proverb

The smoothest way is full of stones.
Yiddish Proverb

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
Yiddish Proverb

Confidence is half of victory.
Yiddish Proverb

Interest on debts grow without rain.
Yiddish Proverb

Had you gotten up early,
you wouldn't have needed to stay up late.
Yiddish Proverb

If you ever need a helping hand
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
Yiddish Proverb

Money doesn't grow on trees.
Yiddish Proverb

Better ask ten times than go astray once.
Yiddish Proverb

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
Yiddish Proverb

Make new friends,
but don't forget the old ones.
Yiddish Proverb

Talking comes by nature,
silence by wisdom.
Yiddish Proverb

Beautiful is not what is beautiful,
but what one likes.
Yiddish Proverb

Better a steady dime than a rare dollar.
Yiddish Proverb

Seek advice but use your own common sense.
Yiddish Proverb

Charm is more than beauty.
Yiddish Proverb

If your healthy, your wealthy.
Yiddish Proverb

If you want your dreams to come true,
don't sleep.
Yiddish Proverb

A penny saved is a penny earned.
Yiddish Proverb

If each one sweeps before his own door,
the whole street is clean.
Yiddish Proverb

A fool says what he knows,
and a wise man knows what he says.
Yiddish Proverb

Time and words can't be recalled,
even if it was only yesterday.
Yiddish Proverb

Gold will never get rusty.
Yiddish Proverb

If you can - do!
Yiddish Proverb

He that can't endure the bad,
will not live to see the good.
Yiddish Proverb

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
Yiddish Proverb

If a link is broken, the whole chain breaks.
Yiddish Proverb

A chip off the old block.
Yiddish Proverb

Words should be weighed, not counted.
Yiddish Proverb

Better a steady dime than a rare dollar.
Yiddish Proverb

Seek advice but use your own common sense.
Yiddish Proverb

Charm is more than beauty.
Yiddish Proverb

If your healthy, your wealthy.
Yiddish Proverb

If you want your dreams to come true,
don't sleep.
Yiddish Proverb

A penny saved is a penny earned.
Yiddish Proverb

If each one sweeps before his own door,
the whole street is clean.
Yiddish Proverb

A fool says what he knows,
and a wise man knows what he says.
Yiddish Proverb

Time and words can't be recalled,
even if it was only yesterday.
Yiddish Proverb

Gold will never get rusty.
Yiddish Proverb

If you can - do!
Yiddish Proverb

He that can't endure the bad,
will not live to see the good.
Yiddish Proverb

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
Yiddish Proverb

If a link is broken, the whole chain breaks.
Yiddish Proverb

A chip off the old block.
Yiddish Proverb

Words should be weighed, not counted.
Yiddish Proverb

American Proverb

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
American Proverb

Good weight and measure, are heaven's treasure.
American Proverb

If you desire many things, many things will be seem but a few.
American Proverb

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
American Proverb

Wishes won't wash dishes.
American Proverb

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
American Proverb

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
American Proverb

Necessity never made a good bargain.
American Proverb

Here today, gone tomorrow.
American Proverb

Variety is the spice of life.
American Proverb

From little acorns mighty oaks do grow.
American Proverb

Hope is a good breakfast, but a poor supper.
American Proverb

The forest is the poor man's overcoat.
American Proverb

Don't cry over spilt milk.
American Proverb

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.
American Proverb

Don't use a lot where a little will do.
American Proverb

He that lives on hope will die fasting.
American Proverb

You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
American Proverb

A dog is a man's best friend.
American Proverb

Close, but no cigar.
American Proverb

Feed a cold, starve a fever.
American Proverb

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
American Proverb

Make love, not war.
American Proverb

Time heals all wounds.
American Proverb

Each day provides its own gifts.
American Proverb

He that marries for money will earn it.
American Proverb

Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.
American Proverb

You cannot unscramble eggs.
American Proverb

Don't judge a book by its cover.
American Proverb

Never be content with your lot. Try for a lot more.
American Proverb

Practice what you preach.
American Proverb

The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.
American Proverb

Calm weather in June, sets the corn in tune.
American Proverb

Once bitten, twice shy.
American Proverb

Take the bitter with the sweet.
American Proverb

African Proverbs

Don't set sail on someone else's star.
African Proverb

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
African Proverb

A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.
African Proverb

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
African Proverb

It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.
African Proverb

A chattering bird builds no nest.
African Proverb

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
African Proverb

When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well,
but few will be ready to go down after it.
African Proverb

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
African Proverb

To try and to fail is not laziness.
African Proverb

If you offend, ask for a pardon; if offended forgive.
African Proverb

A good deed is something one returns.
African Proverb


A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense,
when you are inside you see that each tree has it's place.
African Proverb

He who learns, teaches.
African Proverb

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
African Proverb

It is not work that kills, but worry.
African Proverb

Seeing is different than being told.
African Proverb

There is no medicine to cure hatred.
African Proverb

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
African Proverb

Even the mightest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest.
African Proverb

A stream cannot rise about its source.
African Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb

A ripe melon falls by itself.
African Proverb

Lack of knowledge is darker than night.
African Proverb

Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
African Proverb

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
African Proverb


One must talk little and listen much.
African Proverb

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is.
African Proverb

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
African Proverb

Having a good discussion is like having riches.
African Proverb

Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
African Proverb

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb

Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
African Proverb

Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like
carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
African Proverb

Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
African Proverb

The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
African Proverb


He who does not know one thing knows another.
African Proverb

A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.
African Proverb

When God cooks, you don't see smoke.
African Proverb

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
African Proverb

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
African Proverb

Poems by Maya Angelou

Poems by Maya Angelou

Thinking Quotes

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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Khalil Gibran

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt Disney

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose Bierce

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
Joan Rivers

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Carter G. Woodson

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
William James

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
Loretta Young

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
Mike Tyson

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Shel Silverstein

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch Spinoza

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

Never give up Quotes

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
- Napoleon Hill

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win.
- Vince Lombardi

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
- Henry Ford

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I Walk Today's March With Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
- Anonymous

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning

God grant me the serenity. To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
- Les Brown

CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
- Cesar Chavez

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
- Wayne Dyer

Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair. Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
- Michelle Obama

Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never stop dreaming your inspired future. Believing in your dreams is only the first step, but unless you have a dream that you believe in, you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

I Act with Bold Courage - Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future, I boldly set sail with courage and intent. I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment, as I weather the storms of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One must steer, not talk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What is true belongs to me!
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Where fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
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Life is warfare.
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you judge, investigate.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you wished to be loved, love.
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If you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For greed all nature is too little.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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He who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
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I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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