"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]"

Bible on pleasure   

"Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself."

Proverb, Italian on leadership   

"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."

Gray, John on women
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"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."

Cheney, John Vance on tears
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"He makes his home where the living is best."

Proverb, Latin on home   

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."

Proverb, Chinese on control
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"Every one is the architect of his own fortune."

Regnier, Mathurin on fate   

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"None loves the messenger who brings bad news."

Sophocles on news
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"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."

Proverb, Ethiopian on work
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"Where there is great love there are always miracles."

Cather, Willa on miracles
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."

Wooden, John on perseverance
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"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."

Wooden, John on things and little things
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"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

Wooden, John on potential
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"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

Wooden, John on excellence
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adventure
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"We live in the world when we love it."

Tagore, Rabindranath on love
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"The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on dissent   

"All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do."

Bennett, Arnold on mistakes
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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

Hoffer, Eric on change
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"Listen. Don't explain or justify."

Dyer, William G. on listening
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"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Bierce, Ambrose on abstinence
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on friends and friendship
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"I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say."

Thatcher, Margaret on talkativeness   

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Thatcher, Margaret on power
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"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well."

Thatcher, Margaret on intentions
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"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

Thatcher, Margaret on art
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"Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best."

Palmer, Jim on losers and losing
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"During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly."

Tangye, Richard on procrastination
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"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives."

Younger, Dumas The on friends and friendship
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

Mencken, H. L. on flirting
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart."

Proverb, Russian on judgment and judges
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"Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are."

Proverb, Russian on friends and friendship
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"When money speaks the truth is silent."

Proverb, Russian on money
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"A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin."

Proverb, Russian on death
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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