"To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you."

Wilde, Oscar on tact and tactfulness   

"To a wise man every day is a new life."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime."

Louis, Joe on losers and losing   

"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other."

Brahmanada, Swami on reality
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"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place."

Birkman, Roger on reality
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"Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity."

Bossuet, Jacques BeNigne on charity   

"And now abide faith, hope and love; these three, but the greatest of these is love. [Corinthians 13:13]"

Bible on charity
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."

Beecher, Henry Ward on charity
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"In charity there is no excess."

Bacon, Francis on charity   

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"Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful."

Unknown, Source on charm
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert on charm
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"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."

Brooks, Phillips on charity   

"The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable."

Buckminster, J. S. on charity   

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

Dickens, Charles on charity
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"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Fuller, Thomas on charity
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"The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest."

Home, Henry on charity   

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

Hope, Bob on charity
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"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."

Hugo, Victor on charity   

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."

Johnson, Samuel on charity   

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

London, Jack on charity
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"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name."

France, Anatole on chance
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"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

Fuller, Thomas on chance
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"Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come true. I can't often means I won't. You can change I won to I will with willpower."

Wieder, Marcia on power   

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on power
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"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."

Proverb, Chinese on power
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"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."

Patton, George S. on power   

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on power   

"Will is character in action."

Mcdougall, William on power   

"What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness."

Lindner, Robert on power   

"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Hugo, Victor on power
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"Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on power
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"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own."

Wilson, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."

Ali, Muhammad on winners and winning
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"Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little."

Allen, George E. on winners and winning
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"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."

Ashe, Arthur on winners and winning
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"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."

Baughan, Bill on life
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"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Antrim, Minna on life
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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on death
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"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after."

Baker, Newton D. on learning
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