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Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli 1804

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Jesse Lee Bennett

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Soren Kierkegaard

Fear is the outcome of weakness, a cowards friend, an enemy of firmness. Fear of death is the cause of all human fears. One who wins the fear of death wins himself. He is the one who wins the freedom. From his mental prison.

V.Prabhakaran

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

Tenzin Gyatso

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will

Anthony Robbins

Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Two human loves make one divine.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Jackie Robinson

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would:nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

Dave Barry

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences

John Stuart Mill

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

I know that a life has high value, but our rights, our independence,our honour have a higher value than life.

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Baldwin

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form

Simone de Beauvoir

God almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures

Francis Bacon

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights

Thomas Jefferson

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics

Martin H. Fischer

...don't think of yourself as a jazz musician. Think of yourself as a human being who plays music.

Charlie Haden

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