"The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still."

Lao-Tzu on misers and misery   

"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."

Lao-Tzu on morality
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"He who is contented is rich."

Lao-Tzu on riches
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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao-Tzu on beginning
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"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them."

Lao-Tzu on victory   

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."

Lao-Tzu on virtue
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"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."

Lao-Tzu on victory
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"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence."

Tupper, Martin on prayer
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"Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself."

Barth, Karl on methods   

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason."

Parker, Paul P. on praise
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

Saroyan, William on wisdom
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"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

Truman, Harry S on challenges
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"The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm"

Thoreau, Henry David on age and aging
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

Fuller, Thomas on zeal
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"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."

Cicero, Marcus T. on speakers and speaking
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"Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed."

Thibodeau, Robert on life   

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."

Franklin, Benjamin on pride   

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger."

Aesop on risk
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"Growing old is not growing up."

Horton, Doug on age and aging
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"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."

Twain, Mark on fortune
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"Trust not too much to an enchanting face."

Virgil on beauty
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"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue."

Proverb, Greek on income   

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Acton, Lord on argument
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison, Thomas A. on genius
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"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."

Ceran, C. W. on genius
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"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on genius
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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."

Santayana, George on freedom
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"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on cooperation
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"Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time."

Syrus, Publilius on prudence