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~ The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. ~


~ Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~


~ Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~


~ Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. ~


~ Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. ~


~ One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ~


~ Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. ~


~ Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision ~


~ The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. ~


~ No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry ~


~ If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ~


~ There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done. ~


~ Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and act. ~


~ Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~


~ No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. ~


~ Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. ~


~ Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ~


~ Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less ~


~ A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~


~ In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. ~


~ He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. ~


~ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ~


~ In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~


~ I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ~


~ The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~


~ Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ~


~ It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~


~ Stress is not what happens to us. It's our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose. ~


~ All intellectual improvement arises from leisure ~


~ We are each of us angels with only one wing and we can only fly by embracing each other. ~


~ Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us. ~


~ The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~


~ Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~


~ Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~


~ A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~


~ Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~


~ Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~


~ Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ~


~ Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ~


~ A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~


~ Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. ~


~ Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ~


~ To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. ~


~ Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. ~


~ A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~


~ Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. ~


~ Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course. ~


~ To me faith means not worrying. ~


~ If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. ~


~ What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ~


~ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ~


~ Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. ~


~ The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ~


~ Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package ~


~ Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package ~


~ Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~


~ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~


~ Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world. ~


~ Change is the only constant ~


~ When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~



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