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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. "It all depends on me."

Andre Gide 1869

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. "It all depends on me."

Andre Gide 1869

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

Alexander Pope

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result

James Allen

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

Sir Hugh Walpoe

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Harold Wilson

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Victor Hugo

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

Winston Churchill

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Denis Waitely

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Noam Chomsky

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Mahatma Gandhi

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

Edmund Burke

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Oscar Wilde

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Eldridge Cleaver

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Vauvenargues, Marquis de

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

Jimmy Carter

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead

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