"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."

Chandler, Raymond on techniques   

"The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. "

Shaw, George Bernard on uncategorised
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"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day."

Battista, Orlando A. on inheritance
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"Parental love is the foundation of good self esteem; if you are not loved by the most important people in your life, how can you possibly learn to love yourself. "

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"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

Carnegie, Dale on
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"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."

Ziglar, Zig on obstacles
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Butler, Samuel on work
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself."

Haweis, H. R. on god
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."

Fischer, Martin H. on knowledge
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"Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do."

Roberts, Edgar F. on desire   

"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."

Fischer, Martin H. on education
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"Don't serve time, make time serve you"

Sutton, William on time   

"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."

Hare, David on virtue
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"Children always turn to the light."

Hare, David on children   

"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Wilde, Oscar on imagination
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"The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

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"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

Heilbrun, Carolyn on marriage
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"The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on dependence
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"Interdependency follows independence."

Covey, Stephen R. on dependence
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on gossip
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"Stubbornness is the strength of the weak."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on stubbornness
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"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

Franklin, Benjamin on change
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"I draw my life out with my number two pencil first; proof read it, then pen it! Life is what you make it."

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"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often."

Herford, Oliver on change
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"Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine."

Gallagher, Robert C. on change
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"O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings"

Keats, John on solitude   

"To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same."

Bhagavad Gita on possessions
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all."

Courteline, Georges on action
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"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

Coolidge, Calvin on silence
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"A light heart lives long."

Proverb on life
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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

Carlyle, Thomas on genius
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"The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong."

Bunker, Archie on marriage
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"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."

Connelly, Billy on imagination