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Truth in Quotes
Doubt is a pain to lonely to know that
Faith is his twin brother.
_Kahlil Gibran
Never look down on anyone
unless it's to reach down and give them a hand up.
The difference between a prejudice and a conviction
is that you can explain your conviction without getting mad.
They may forget what you said
But they will never forget how you made them feel.
Everyone needs someone to just listen once in a while.
There's one thing more important than being a good talker--
It's being a good listener.
What lies behind us and what lies before us
Are tiny matters compared to
What lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we were faultless,
we should not be so much annoyed
by the defects of others.
What you are thunders so loud
That I cannot hear what you say.
It is easy to dodge an elephant
But not a fly
Give many men your ear but few your voice.
Be sure of this,
You are dreadfully like other people
You can always spot a well-informed man--
His views are the same as yours.
Do the truth you know
and you shall learn
The truth you need to know
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation
They think to little who talk too much.
What does that man want
who has had enough?
A man is rich in proportion
to the number of things
which he can afford to let alone.
Faults are thick when love is thin,
The only safe way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.
What counts is not the number of hours
you put in
but how much you put in the hours.
Let us realize what happens round us is largely outside our control, but the way we choose to react to it is inside our control.
The really happy man is the one who can enjoy the scenery,
when he has to take a detour.
The cost of a thing
is that amount of life
which must be exchanged for it.
Always speak the truth
and you'll never be concerned with
your memory.
When a man has a "pet peeve" it's remarkable how often he pets it.
If you never stick your neck out
You'll never get your head above the crowd
It is not miserable to be blind;
it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
He who strikes the first blow
confesses he has run out of ideas.
I had no shoes and complained until I met a man who had no feet.
Before you flare up at any one's faults,
take time to count ten-
ten of your own.
We are never more discontented with others
than when we are discontented with ourselves.
A mistake is evidence that someone has tried to do something.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
Life is 10% what you make of it
and 90% how you take it.
If at first you don't succeeds,
your running about average.
Tact is the ability to close our mouth
before somebody else wants to.
Learn from the mistakes of others,
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Be what you wish others to become.
The only way to settle a disagreement
is on the basis of what's right
no who's right.
If anyone speaks evil of you
so live that no one will believe it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters to what lies within us.
The measure of a man's real character
is what he would do
if he knew he would never be found out.
I have resolved never to do anything
which I should be afraid to do
if it were the last hour of my life.
Have courage to be ignorant of a great number of things,
in order avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
The aim of education is to enable man to continue his learning
The best way to succeed in life
is to act on the advice that you give others.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge
Argument is an exchange of ignorance.
Never forget that you are a part of the people who can be fooled some of the time.
Don't drive as if you own the road,
Drive as if you own the car.
Wisdom consist in knowing what to do with what you know.
Blessed is he who,
having nothing to say,
refrains from giving worthy evidence of the fact.
I have often regretted my speech
seldom my silence.
Speech is the index of the mind.
Everything has been thought of before
the difficulty is to think of it again.
"The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself."
Bill Gates Message on Life
You are what you imagine you can be.
Erik Erikson.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
President Roosevelt
Philosphers only interpret the world,
The point is to change it.
Karl Marx's Tomb
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