"You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have."

Ziglar, Zig on action
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"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm."

Syrus, Publilius on leadership
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"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

Jefferson, Thomas on power
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"If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself."

Mencken, H. L. on marriage   

"See in what peace a Christian can die."

Addison, Joseph on death   

"It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races."

Twain, Mark on opinions
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"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

Disraeli, Benjamin on circumstance
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"No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction."

Scoville, John W. on causes
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"Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful."

Wylie, Ida R. on fidelity
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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

Erasmus, Desiderius on war
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"Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend."

La Fontaine, Jean De on anger
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"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can."

Menander of Athens on life
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"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate."

Luther, Martin on truth
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"He that's secure is not safe."

Franklin, Benjamin on safety
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven."

Shaw, George Bernard on violence   

"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners."

Shakespeare, William on power
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"It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig."

Santayana, George on saints
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

Santayana, George on emotions
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"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

Johnson, Samuel on perseverance
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

Pound, Ezra on art   

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Kanin, Garson on age and aging
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"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."

Horace on fortune
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"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."

Locke, John on truth   

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."

Atkinson, John on character
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"From small beginnings come great things."

Proverb, American on action
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"Could everything be done twice it would be done better."

Proverb on quality
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"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

Twain, Mark on necessity
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"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

Stimson, Henry Lewis on trust
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"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."

Peters, Thomas J. on leadership
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"The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!"

Shakespeare, William on crisis   

"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."

Homer on empathy
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"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."

Montesquieu, Charles De on freedom   

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"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

Plutarch on blame
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle."

Orwell, George on common sense   

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Fuller, Thomas on charity
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"One returns to the place one came from."

La Fontaine, Jean De on home
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"It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on wisdom   

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