"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."

Einstein, Albert on morality
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"Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order."

Hume, Basil on morality   

"TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More."

Unknown, Source on work
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one."

Proverb, Chinese on faults
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"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

Browne, Sir Thomas on potential
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"No pressure, no diamonds."

Case, Mary on adversity   

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."

Mann, Horace on generosity
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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

Danielson, C. Archie on ambition
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"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."

Hemingway, Ernest on writers and writing   

"Birds of a feather flock together."

Proverb on loyalty   

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility."

Carlzon, Jan on responsibility
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"No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace."

Minor, Clark H. on sacrifice   

"By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful."

Wilde, Oscar on bachelor
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"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."

Long, Lazarus on self-confidence
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"The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De on courage
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"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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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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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on friends and friendship
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"Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship   

"We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

Watson, Thomas J. on friends and friendship
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"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on friends and friendship
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"You're not what you think you are; you're not what others think you are; you're what you think others think you are!"

Unknown, Source on self-esteem   

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."

Shaw, George Bernard on imagination
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"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

Brice, Fanny on affectation
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"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

Ward, William A. on planning
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Locke, John on thoughts and thinking
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"The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil."

Bataille, Georges on morality
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

Kierkegaard, Søren on faith
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"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Italian on experience
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"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."

Gogh, Vincent Van on deeds and good deeds
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"A good scare is worth more than good advice."

Horace on advice
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"Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking
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