"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on words
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"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

Irving, Washington on temper
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"The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly."

Thoreau, Henry David on scholars and scholarship   

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"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit."

Penn, William on popularity   

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."

Proverb, Sicilian on friends and friendship
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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

Congreve, William on music
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"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them."

Bioleau on fools and foolishness
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"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

Francis of Assisi, St. on forgiveness
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"He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent."

Seneca on repentance   

"Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done."

Kovacs on vision
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"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

Einstein, Albert on life
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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

West, Rebecca on conversation
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"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

Riley, Pat on action
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"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on tragedies   

"I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them."

Twain, Mark on taxes and taxation
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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast."

Westcott, Edward Noyes on giving   

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on truth   

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on thoughts and thinking
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"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on prejudice   

"The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger."

Paul, Jean on fear
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"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on gratitude
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"If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time."

Collier, Robert on procrastination
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"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"We work to become, not to acquire."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."

Horace on function
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"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others."

Bower, Sharon Anthony on assertiveness
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Be your own palace, or the world is your jail."

Donne, John on self-sufficiency
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"Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller."

Bruyere, Jean De La on public office   

"We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on law and lawyers   

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame."

Jong, Erica on blame
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"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

Schweitzer, Albert on integrity   

"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing."

Proverb, Ibo on action   

"There is nothing on earth divine except humanity."

Landor, Walter Savage on humankind   

"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."

Russell, Bertrand on power   

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

Morgan, John Pierpont on possibilities
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"Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed"

Drucker, Peter F. on time
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