Challenge Quotes

• "Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
• "Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
• "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution”
• "Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay."
• "Reality challenges and rewards. I believe our best days are yet to come.”
• "It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it."
• "Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives."
• "Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average."
• "These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed. . . . Great necessities call out great virtues."

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Beginnings Quotes

• "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
• "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
• "The beginning is the most important part of the work."
• "From small beginnings come great things."
• "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
• "Beginnings are always messy."
• "What's well begun, is half done."
• "The beginnings of all things are small."
• "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
• "Whatever begins, also ends."

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Anger Quotes

• "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
• "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
• "It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it."
• "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."
• "I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."
• "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
• "A man is measured by the size of things that anger him."
• "Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
• "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
• "When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."
• "It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry."
• "Never write a letter while you are angry."
• "There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."
• "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
• "Laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity."
• "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
• "Get mad, then get over it."
• "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
• "He who angers you conquers you."
• "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
• "When anger rises, think of the consequences."
• "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
• "Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."
• "If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
• "Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
• "Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret."
• "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."
• "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
• "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

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Failure Quotes

• Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
• Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
• If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
• A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
• Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
• One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
• Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
• The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
• Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
• Success builds character, failure reveals it.
• There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.
• Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
• A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
• Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
• You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
• He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.”
• I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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Honesty Quotes

• "A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
• "The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
• "The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
• "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
• "The surest way to remain poor is to be honest."
• "For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine."
• "An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
• "The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper."
• "Peace if possible, truth at all costs."
• "You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
• "There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose."
• "Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance."
• "Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."
• "Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth."
• "Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
• "Anything more than the truth would be too much."
• "In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
• "Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."
• "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
• "Time discovers truth."
• "Fine words and insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
• "The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
• "I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
• "If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not."
• "Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him."
• "Dare to be honest and fear no labor."
• "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!"
• "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
• "No legacy is so rich as honesty."
• "Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?"
• "The day is for honest men, the night for thieves."
• "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
• "When in doubt, tell the truth."
• "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

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Character Quotes

• "To measure the man, measure his heart."
• "The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
• "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
• "It's good to shut up sometimes."
• "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,give him power."
• "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
• "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
• "Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."
• "I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself."
• "It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
• "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
• "You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise."
• "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath."
• "Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny."
• "It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."
• "Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as
  that of character."
• "Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow."
• "Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
• "History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances."
• "Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."
• "Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
• "It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age."
• "A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name."
• "It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."
• "To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give."
• "Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward."
• "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
• "It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character."
• "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
• "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
• "Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
• "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
• "The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."

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Leadership Quotes

• "The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."
• "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."
• "The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."
• "The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."
• "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."
• "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."
• "The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."
• "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."
• "I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
• "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
• "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
• "Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy."
• "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
• "Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
• "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
• "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
• "A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten."
• "A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit."
• "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
• "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."

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Power Qoutes

• "Use power to curb power."
• "The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth."
• "Knowledge itself is power."
• "We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
• "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
• "Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."
• "Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
• "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
• "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
• "The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
• "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
• "To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."
• "Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper."
• "It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."
• "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
• "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
• "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
• "Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."
• "I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven."
• "What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
• "What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."
• "No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
• "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
• "Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."
• "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
• "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
• "A good intention clothes itself with power."
• "A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
• "The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers."
• "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
• "Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."
• "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
• "I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
• "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
• "I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."
• "When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."
• "Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power."
• "Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments."
• "He who has great power should use it lightly."
• "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
• "The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave,determined spirit."
• "The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
• "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government."

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Work Quotes

• "Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
• "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
• "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
• "A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."
• "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
• "Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"
• "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
• "Nothing will work unless you do."
• "To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."
• "Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
• "There is no substitute for hard work."
• "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
• "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
• "I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
• "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
• "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
• "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
• "Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
• "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
• "People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it."
• "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
• "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."
• "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
• "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
• "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
• "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
• "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."
• "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
• "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
• "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
• "My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
• "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

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Gratitude Quotes

• "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
• "The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
• "Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
• "I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
• "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
• "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."
• "Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world."
• "Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude."
• "What soon grows old? Gratitude."
• "To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."
• "No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or a woman's love."

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Genius Quotes

• "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
• "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
• "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
• "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
• "He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."
• "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds."
• "Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel."
• "Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
• "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."
• "So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."
• "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."
• "It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."
• "The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."
• "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
• "First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
• "Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."
• "If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators."
• "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
• "Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
• "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
• "There is no genius free from some tincture of madness."
• "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
• "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
• "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."

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Opportunity Quotes

• "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
• "The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
• "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
• "I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
• "You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
• "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
• "In the middle of difficulity lies opportunity."
• "Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."
• "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
• "Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary"
• "Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."
• "There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity."
• "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
• "Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something."
• "Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer."
• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
• "Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
• "Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards."
• "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
• "Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers."
• "The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'."

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Knowledge Quotes

• "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
• "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
• "Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
• "Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
• "The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
• "Knowledge is love and light and vision."
• "Information is not knowledge."
• "I am not young enough to know everything."
• "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
• "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."

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Favorite Quotes

• "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Helen Keller
• "Fear God, and your enemies will fear you." Benjamin Franklin
• "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure." Benjamin Franklin
• "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards." Benjamin Franklin
• "We have the best Congress that money can buy." Will Rogers
• "Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt." Dr. Samuel Johnson
• "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein
• "As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." Albert Einstein
• "No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." Bertrand Russell
• "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." H. L. Mencken
• "It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place." H. L. Mencken
• "Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Henry Ward Beecher
• "To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." Josh Billings
• "There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." Josh Billings
• "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." Jim Rohn
• "We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." Jim Rohn
• "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill
• "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
• "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." Elbert Hubbard
• "Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men." Dr. Samuel Johnson
• "Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." Benjamin Franklin
• "Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better." George Santayana
• "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." Irish Proverb
• "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Winston Churchill
• "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." Albert Camus
• "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." Woody Allen
• "My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." Jimmy Durante

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Imagination Quotes

• "What is now proved was once only imagined."
• "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope
  always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."
• "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
• "Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
• "Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence."
  "There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder."
• "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
• "The world is but a canvas to the imagination."
  
• "Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities."
  
• "The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his
  imagination."
• "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
  
• "The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination."
  
• "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
  
• "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
  
• "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
  
• "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
  
• "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
  
• "An idea is salvation by imagination."
• "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
• "There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste."
• "Everything you can imagine is real."
  
• "The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination."
  
• "I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."
• "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
  
• "The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To
  raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."
  
• "The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers."
  
• "One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one.
  I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me."
  
• "Whenever I need to ``get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and
  the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible!"
  
• "Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry."
  
• "Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
• "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
• "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
• "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
  

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Birthday Quotes

• No wise man ever wished to be younger.
• You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
• Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
• It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
• Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.
• From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
• May you live all the days of your life.
• The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
• The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
• For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
• Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ‘you’ to the world.
• Hope your Birthday gently breezes into your life all the choicest of things and all that your heart holds dear Have A Fun- Filled Day.
• I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing “Happy Birthday”.
• We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
• There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
• A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
• Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:Your birthday as my own to me is dear...But yours gives most; for mine did only lendMe to the world; yours gave to me a friend.~Martial
• Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
• Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry
• Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
• In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault,
• The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
• You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Author Unknown
• They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
  
• Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
• Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
• First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
• Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy FulheimYouth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
• You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
• I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
• Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
• May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
• Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
• Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
• Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
• Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson

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Friendship Quotes

• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out.
  
• A best friend shares the good times and help you out by listening during the bad times.
  
• One’s best friend is oneself.
  
• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
  
• Best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.
  
• Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
  
• Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.
  
• If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them.
  
• There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
  
• One who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
  
• A friend is a gift one give oneself.
  
• My best friend is the someone who brings out the best of me.
  
• The medicine of life is to have true faithful friends.
  
• A best friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
  
• Lots of your friends want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
  
• The best mirror in the world is an old friend.
  
• A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends.If not, they weren’t true friends in the first place.
  
• A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
  
• True friends are very difficult to find, hard to leave, and impossible to forget.
  
• A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
  
• Hold a true friend with both your hands.
  
• When you look around and your world is crumbling or when you think no one loves you, your best friend is the one to run to you.
  
• A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half cracked.
• A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be somewhere else.
  
• Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.
  
• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
  
• Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
  
• Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
  
• A road to a friend’s house is never long.
• When you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life

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Perfection Quotes

• Perfection is the child of time.
  
• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  
• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
  
• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
  
• Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
  
• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
  
• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
  
• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
  
• True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
  
• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
  
• No one becomes perfect, but some become great.
  
• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
  
• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
  
• The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
  
• No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers.
  
• A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  
• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
  
• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
  
• Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.
  
• The principal mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
  
• Everything is perfect in the universe –even your desire to improve it.
  
• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
  
• Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
  
• A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
  
• Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
  
• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
  
• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
  
• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
  
• Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
  
• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
  
• I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
  
• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
  
• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
  
• Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

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Success Quotes

• Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket.
  
• Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
  
• Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
  
• The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
  
• A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
  
• Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
  
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
  
• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
  
• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
  
• Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
  
• Success doesn’t come to you…you go to it.
  
• Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
  
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
  
• Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.
  
• When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.
  
• Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.
  
• To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
  
• Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
  
• The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
  
• Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.
  
• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
  
• Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
  
• The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others

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