"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

Gibbon, Edward on ability
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama on friends and friendship
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"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place."

Bellin, Gita on change
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"What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost."

Edwards, Tryon on giving
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"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."

Rohn, Jim on ask
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Chesterfield, Lord on persuasion   

"If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well."

Proverb on effort
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

Ziglar, Zig on success
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Adams, Douglas on mystery
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on trying
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"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."

Adams, Douglas on challenges
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"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Adams, Douglas on atheism
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Adams, Douglas on service
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

Adams, Douglas on responsibility
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"Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold."

Moore, Peter D. on information   

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on humankind
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"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

Ziglar, Zig on potential
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"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."

Chesterfield, Lord on perseverance
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"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."

Chesterfield, Lord on perfection   

"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."

Cuppy, Will on manners   

"Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship   

"Manners are happy ways of doing things."

Unknown, Source on manners   

"Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do."

Unknown, Source on kindness   

"The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams."

Unknown, Source on extra mile   

"The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family"

Vance, Michael on justice
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"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."

Collins, Kitty O'neill on adversity
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"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on change
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"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."

Commager, Henry S. on change
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"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

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"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."

Chesterfield, Lord on mind
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"Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you."

Chesterfield, Lord on pleasure
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"Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome."

Chesterfield, Lord on flattery   

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin."

Allen, Fred A. on contentment
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"A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."

Allen, Fred A. on committees and meetings