Quotes by Unknown, Source

"The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change."

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"The only people who like change are wet babies."

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"To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away."

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

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"Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes."

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"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change."

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"You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow."

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"In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired."

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"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

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"You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character."

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"Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character."

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"The test of any man's character is how he takes praise."

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"The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions."

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"It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else."

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"Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure."

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"Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him."

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"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted."

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"Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child."

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"If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on."

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"Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one."

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"The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy."

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"Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface."

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"Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage."

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"Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity."

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"Character is a victory, not a gift."

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

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"Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world."

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"Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness"

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"There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things."

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"Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen."

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"Tact is the intelligence of the heart."

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"A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time."

Unknown, Source on taxes and taxation   

"It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed."

Unknown, Source on taxes and taxation
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"It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that Damn and Taxes: are two separate words."

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"Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer."

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"Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole."

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"Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted."

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"We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."

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"A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money."

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"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning."

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