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Attitude ( 6) Fool (18) Opportunity(7)

Anger ( 8) Future (8) People (21)
Cat ( 4) Grandparents (4) Problems (8)
Change ( 10) Goal (13) Politics (12)
Candle ( 4 ) House (6) Relation (4)
Convince (20 ) Habit (3) Success (13)
Conversation (12) Happiness (25) Risks (5)
Character (17) Hard Work (5) Self-Realization
Courage (4 ) Health (11) (9)
Criticism (2) Intelligence (26) Smile (14)
Children (21) Idea (5) Suffering (3)
Teachers ( 8) Job (14) Time (4)
Experience (8) Life (22) Truth (6)
Excellence (3) Love (17) TV (4)
Forgive (6) Leader (14) Unity (3)
Faliure (14) Mind (8) Words (7)
Friend (18) Money (22) Woman (31)
Freedom (3) Mistakes (12) God (50)
Faith (4) Optimist (12)

Attitude
1. The attitude within is more important than the circumstances without.
2. Attitude must be an art because it draws, and not a science because it can't be
measured.
3. A good way to change somebody's attitude is to change your own.
4. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their
prejudices. (William James)
5. Ability is what you're capable of doing...
Motivation determines what you do...
Attitude determines how well you do it.
6. It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude. (Zig
Zigler)
7. I don't need your attitude I have one of my own.
8. I think, therefore I am.
9. I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
10. "Is ignorance or apathy the biggest problem with the world today?"
"I don't know and I don't care".
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Anger
1. An angry person is seldom reasonable; a reasonable person is seldom angry.
2. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes
it. (Seneca)
3. Anger is costly on the soul, be careful with what you choose to spend it on. (Bohdan
Chreptak)
4. Anger opens the mouth and shuts the mind.
5. A person is only as big as the things that make them angry. (Confucius)
6. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
7. He who angers you controls you!
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8. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
(Chinese Proverb)
9. Many people lose their tempers merely by seeing you keep yours.
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Cat
1. I like pigs better than cat and dogs. Dogs are subservient and look up to man. Cats are
aloof and look down on man. A pig, however, will look you in the eye, and see his
equal. (Winston Churchill)
2. I have never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen,
they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're
home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women
hate in a man, they love in a cat.
3. A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice
warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods! A cat
thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm,
dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God!
4. Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.
5. When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you.
When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed. (Alisha Everett)
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Change
1. If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.
2. If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you had done it.
(Ashleigh Brilliant)
3. If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you can't change it, accept it.
(Ted Shackelford)
4. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's
the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. (Dale Carnegie)
5. It is better to regret something you did, rather than to regret something you didn't do.
6. Consider how hard it is to change yourself; and you will understand what little chance
you have trying to change others.
7. Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline
Schoeder)
8. I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they
plan their lives.
Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change. (Jim Rohn)
9. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is
faced. (James Baldwin)
10. The easiest thing to be in the world is you.
The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be.
Don't let them put you in that position. (Leo Buscaglia)
11. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change. -- Charles Darwin.
12. We may not be interested in chaos, but chaos is interested in us.
13. I you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
14. If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti.
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Candle
1. Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.
2. Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter.
3. Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
4. There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small
candle. (Robert Alden)
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Convince
1. When you are trying to convince yourself something is right, it is usually wrong.
2. When a person wants to believe something, it doesn't take much to convince them.
3. A man convinced against his will is still of the same opinion.
4. We don't want a thing because we have found a reason for it- we find a reason for it
because we want it.
5. If you can't convince them, confuse them. (Harry S. Truman)
6. I am the world's greatest authority on my own opinion.
7. I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
8. If you will always insist that you are right, people will think that there is something
wrong with you. (Melchor F. Cichon)
9. Listening and hearing are two different senses.
10. Don't listen to what I say; listen to what I mean.
11. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
(Carl Gustav Jung)
12. A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
13. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
(Erica Jong)
14. Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they
will beat you with experience.
15. Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.
16. I am sorry I offended you - I should have lied.
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Conversation
1. For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your
mouth you let the people look into your mind. (Bruce Barton)
2. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time.
But also to leave the wrong thing unsaid at the most tempting moment.
3. Speak softly. If you really want to be heard, lower your voice. (Terri Levine)
4. Raise your voice and your dignity is lowered. (Melchor F. Cichon)
5. Walk the words you talk and talk the words you walk.
6. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. (Joseph
Joubert)
7. I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
8. It is always the ones who talk loudest who do the least.
9. A person who can speak many languages is not necessarily more valuable than a
person who can listen in one.
10. A tear shed can say more than a hundred words spoken.
11. A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
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Character
1. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of
it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln)
2. Be bold in what you stand for; and careful what you fall for.
3. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
4. The collapse of character begins with compromise.
5. Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.
6. I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of
what I do. That is character! - (Theodore Roosevelt)
7. Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you fall for. (Robert
Quillen)
8. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.
9. Character is what a person is in the dark. (Dwight Moody)
10. Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because
unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. (Peter Marshall)
11. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him
power. (Abraham Lincoln)
12. A signature always reveals a man's character... and sometimes even his name.
13. A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
14. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. (Goethe)
15. Our character is shaped as much by our failures as it is by our successes. (John Gray)
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Courage
1. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the
day that says...I'll try again tommorrow.
2. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more
important than fear. Courage is the presence of fear with the capacity to manage and
overcome it. (Ambrose Redmoon)
3. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit
down and listen. (Winston Churchill)
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Criticism
1. Criticism should always leave people with the feeling that they have been helped.
2. He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. (Abraham Lincoln)
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Children
1. My children need love the most when they deserve it the least. (Erma Bombeck)
2. Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
3. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.(Bette
Davis)
4. If you wait to have kids until you can afford them, you probably never will.
5. Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. (W. Cecil)
6. My parents worked hard to give us everything money could not buy.
7. Children need your presence much more than your presents.
8. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you
shouldn't have said.
9. Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching
you. (Robert Fulghum)
10. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all
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about.
11. A child will perform from their mind for their coach/teacher, but for a parent they
perform from their heart.
12. A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, their hearts forever.
13. If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their
shoulders. (Abigail Van Buren)
14. It is not what a teenager knows that worries his parents. It's how he found out.
15. It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
16. Parents are so excited about the first steps and words of their children, but then they
spend the next 17 years telling them to sit down and shut up.
17. One of the most important things a father can do for his children is to love their
mother.
18. Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. (Rita
Rudner)
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Teachers
1. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. (Chinese proverb)
2. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
3. Everywhere children are schooled to become masters at answering questions and to
remain novices at asking them. (Dillon, 1988)
4. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood
5. Student: "How long do you want this report to be?"
Teacher: "I would like you to think of this paper much like a lady's dress - long
enough to cover the subject, yet short enough to keep it interesting."
6. A man who does not read good books does not have any advantage over the person
who cannot read them. ( Mark Twain )
7. Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't
starve for his entire life. (African proverb)
8. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams)
9. A good school is a community where children learn to live first and foremost as
children and not as future adults.
10. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has.
11. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
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Experience
1. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
2. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you
make it again.
5. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. (Rodin)
3. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
4. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
6. By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.
7. There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not
learning from experience. (Archibald McLeish)
9. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
judgment.
10. Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
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Excellence
1. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralising. (Harriet
Braiker)
2. I've to say NO to the good so I can say YES to the best.
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Forgive
1. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. (Paul Boese)
2. There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering- and even
more difficult.
3. Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the
prisoner! (Max Lucado)
4. As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in
your mind. (Isabelle Holland)
5. The weak can never Forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the Strong. (Mahatma
Gandhi)
6. Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names.
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Faliure
1. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. (Chinese proverb)
2. Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. (Napolean Hill)
3. Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.
4. Failure is the only opportunity to begin more intelligently. (Henry Ford)
5. Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of
a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. (Louis E.
Boone)
6. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
(Elbert Hubbard)
7. Remember that failure is an event - not a person.
8. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
(Oliver Goldsmith)
9. A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after
success.
10. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
(Bill Cosby)
11. I'd rather do something and fail than do nothing and succeed!
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Friend
1. The most beautiful discovery two friends can make is that they can grow separately
without growing apart.
2. A friend is someone that won't begin to talk behind your back when you leave the
room.
3. A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have. (Abraham Lincoln)
4. A friend to all is a friend to none.
5. A good friend see the first tear, catches the second and stops the third.
6. The bank of friendship cannot exist for long without deposits.
7. Every good friend once was a stranger.
8. Constant use will wear out anything... especially friends.
9. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. (Benjamin Franklin)
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10. Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to
yourself.
11. True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like autumn
leaves, scattered everywhere.
12. If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go
out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. (Zig Zigler)
13. New friends are silver, old friends are gold.
Always make new friends but don't forget the old.
14. My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
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Freedom
1. Freedom is doing what you know is right without fear.
2. Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you ought.
3. Discipline without freedom is tyranny. Freedom without discipline is chaos. (Cullen
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Faith
1. Faithless is he who quits when the road darkens.(J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings)
2. Faith makes all things possible.
Love makes all things easy.
Hope makes all things work.
3. Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!
4. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith.
The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety
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Fool / Wise
1. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool
forever. (Chinese proverb)
2. A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
(Saadi, Persian poet)
3. A wise man sees as much as he should, not as much as he can.
4. A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.
5. Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight.
6. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
7. Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of
youth, and the energy of old age.
8. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
9. One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool
10. Silence is wise if we are foolish, but foolish if we are wise.
11. No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
12. Every fool knows that he cannot reach the stars but it never keeps a wise man from
trying. (Ronnie B. Woods)
13. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
(Abraham Lincoln)
14. Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
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Future
1. There is no future in spending the present worrying about the past.
2. Those who do not plan for the future have to live through it anyway.
3. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
(Charles F. Keetering)
4. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty and power of their dreams.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
5. Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future.
6. Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!
7. I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow.
8. The easiest way to predict the future is to invent it.

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Grandparents
1. Getting older, everything gets worse; except forgetfulness... That gets better.
2. Grandparents: the people who think your children are wonderful even though they're
sure you're not raising them right.
3. Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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Goal
1. A 'wish' changes nothing. A 'decision' changes everything!
2. If you don't know where you're going how do you expect to get there.
3. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
(Hannah More)
4. The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no
goal to reach. (Benjamin Mays)
5. The greatest tragedy for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but
that it is too low and we reach it. – Michael Angelo
6. A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. (Harvey
Mackay)
7. A goal properly set is halfway reached.
8. If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. (Henry
Kissinger)
9. Don't kill the dream - execute it!
10. All your dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney)
11. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the
dream disappears. (Jim Dietz)
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House
1. He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house. (Danish proverb)
2. A king's castle is his home.
3. A luxury once enjoyed becomes a necessity.
4. Having someplace to go to is a home.
Having someone to love is family.
Having both is a blessing.
5. My house was clean last week.
Sorry you missed it.
6. A perfect guest is one who makes his host feel at home.
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Habit
1. Habit never goes Because if you remove H Abit remains, If you remove A Bit
remains, If you remove B It still remains
2. A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his
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Happiness
5. Happiness is a path, not a destination.
6. True happiness may be sought, thought, or caught -- but never bought.
7. All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.
8. People would enjoy life more if, once they got what they wanted, they could remember
how much they wanted it.
9. Some cause happiness wherever they go; Others whenever they go.
10. Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it is something you carry in your
heart.
11. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes. (Hugh Downs)
12. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln)
13. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
14. When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)
15. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
16. Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect; it just means you've decided to see
Beyond the imperfections.
17. People would enjoy life more if, once they got what they wanted, they could remember
how much they wanted it.
18. Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are
who already possess it. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
19. He who is not grateful for the good things he has would not be happy with what he
wishes he had.
20. If you haven't all the things that you want, be thankful for all the things that you don't
have that you didn't want.
21. Contentment is not to be found in having what you want, but rather wanting what you
have
22. He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. (Aesop)
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Hard Work
1. The reason why people do not obtain success is because it is disguised as hard work.
2. There are three ways to obtain wealth: inheritance, luck, and hard work. None is
guaranteed, but you have no influence over the first two.
3. Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn
up their noses, and some don't turn up at all! (Sam Ewing)
4. My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the
work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
(Indira Gandhi)
5. I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
(Thomas Jefferson)
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6. Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It
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Health
1. Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
2. People do not quit playing because they grow old.
They grow old because they quit playing. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
3. A weird thing about humans is we work till we're sick to get a fortune, then pay a
fortune to get well again.
4. Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what
it is.
5. Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
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Intelligence
1. Knowing is not enough; We must Apply.
Willing is not enough; We must Do. (Goethe)
2. The more I know the more I know I don't know.
3. The funny thing about common sense, it ain't all that common.
4. Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
5. The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant. (Egyptian
proverb)
6. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. (Einstein)
7. We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with
other men's wisdom. (Michel de Montaigne)
8.
9. A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an
agreeable untruth. (Sir John A. MacDonald)
10. Imagination is intelligence having fun.
11. Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
12. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't; and a sense of
humour to console him for what he is.
13. Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can
find information upon it. (Samuel Johnson)
14. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. (Epictetus)
15. It is not, how much you know...It is making the best use of what you know !
16. It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right
questions. (Tony Robbins)
17. A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does; but he is surprised
at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
18. When in doubt, tell the truth. (Mark Twain)
19. At age 20 we worry about what others think of us. At 40 we don't care what they
think of us. At 60 we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. (Ann Landers)
20. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, they hold him. (Samuel Butler)

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Idea
1. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always
right by having no ideas at all. (Edward de Bono)
2. A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
3. Ideas are funny little things, they won't work unless you do.
4. One can resist an intrusion of armies but not an idea whose time has come. (Victor
Hugo)
5. Great men may die, but there ideas won't. (Kelly Nelson)
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Job
1. Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might
have your job.
2. Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life.(Confucius)
3. The fellow who is fired with enthusiasm for his work is seldom fired by his boss.
4. We only grow when we step outside our comfort zone.
5. If you are not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change
your job. (Leo Tolstoy)
6. It is not the employer who pays wages- he only handles the money...It is the product
that pays wages.
7. Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
8. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you
with their ingenuity. (General George S. Patton, Jr)
9. Don't be irreplaceable -- if you can't be replaced, you won't be promoted.
10. People forget how fast you did a job- but they remember how well you did it.
11. Are you fuel for your job or is your job fuel for you. (Prof. Preston Bottger)
12. I don't believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business
tomorrow. (Nelson Jackson)
13. If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him.
14. We do three kinds of jobs, cheap, quick, and good.
You can have any two:
A good, quick job-won't be cheap.
A good job, cheap-won't be quick.
A cheap job, quick-won't be good.
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Life
1. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. (Soren
Kierkegaard 1813-1855)
2. Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
3. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
4. There are two types of pain in this life;
that of discipline, which lasts a short while... and that of regret, which can last a life
time.
5. It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand
everything. (Rene Coty)
6. If life were easy, then it would be boring. (Charles Beck)
7. The best things in life aren't things. (Art Buchwald)
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8. All animals, except man, know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
(Samuel Butler)
9. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. (James Dean)
10. Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense.
11. Life without you would be like a broken pencil... Pointless. (Rowan Atkinson)
12. Live each day as if it were your last, but learn from each day as if you will live
forever.
13. Live your own life, for you will die your own death. (Latin proverb)
14. There are two ways to be contented:
one is liking what you do, and the other is doing what you like.
15. Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive. (Elbert Hubbard)
16. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been but also
where you're going.

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Love
1. When a man falls in love , he has the illusion that his girl is different from the others
2. Faults are thick when love is thin.
3. A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. (Latin Proverb)
4. The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to get.
5. The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy.
You cannot hate someone you don't care about.
6. Immature love: I love you because I need you.
Mature love; I need you because I love you.
7. Love is not about who you live with...
It's about who you can't live without.
8. Love is not blind; it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see
less. (Rabbi Julius Gordon)
9. Love is not finding a perfect person, it is seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
10. A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
11. May your love be filled with life and may your life be filled with love. (old wedding
toast)
12. Love is not a game, so don't be a player.
13. If I had never met you, I wouldn't like you;
If I didn't like you , I wouldn't love you;
If I didn't love you , I wouldn't miss you...
But I did, I do and I will.
14. Choose your love, love your choice.
15. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
16. Love is not just gazing at each other but looking together in the same direction.
15. Love and Time: The only two things in all of life and all the world that cannot be
bought, but spent
18. If you gave me something I need more than you do, you've given me a gift;
If you've given me something you need more than I do, you've gifted me with love.
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Leader
1. Don't tell a man how to do a thing. Tell him what you want done, and he'll surprise
you with his ingenuity. (General George S. Patton)
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2. The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he
wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do
it. (Theodore Roosevelt)
3. The distinction between a manager and a leader is as broad as the distance between
control and inspiration.
4. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. (John C.
Maxwell)
5. Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it.
(Harry S. Truman)
6. Expect people to do better than they are..it helps them to become better; but, don't be
disappointed when they are not- it helps them to keep trying.
7. An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer.
8. By learning to obey, you will know how to command. (Italian Proverb)
9. A leader is a dealer in hope -- Napolean.
10. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams.
11. Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing
their jobs right. (Byrd Baggett)
12. A good example is the best sermon.
13. People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that
they hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things. (Stephen R. Covey)
14. If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be
and could be, he will become as he ought to be and could be. (Goethe)
15. Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.
16. The best thing a leader can do for a great group is to allow the members to discover
their greatness.
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Mind
1. A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head.
2. Only boring people get bored. (Robin Beyer)
3. An open mind does not always require an open mouth.
4. Quieting the chattering mind promotes directed action.
5. My mind contains many good ideas, but it is not always easy to squeeze one out.
6. Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.
7. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. (Chinese proverb)
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Money
1. Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines
2. If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
(Robert Marlowe)
3. Materialism is buying things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress
people who don't matter.
4. A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.
5. He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
6. A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot. (German proverb)
7. A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.
8. When your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall.
9. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your
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10. A penny saved is a penny earned, and a penny spent, is a penny enjoyed.
11. What some people mistake for the high cost of living, is really the cost of living high.
12. A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
13. A status symbol is a symbol, not status.
14. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
21. Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well
enough to lend to.
22. Blessed is he who doesn't show hatefulness over what is lost, but instead, shows
gratefulness over what is left.
23. Golden Rule: Those who have the gold rule.
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Mistakes
1. He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey.
He who blames himself is halfway there.
He who blames no one has arrived. (Chinese proverb)
2. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. (Edward Phelps)
3. Learn from other people's mistakes, life isn't long enough to make them all yourself.
4. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
(Antisthenes)
5. If you can keep your head while all others are losing theirs and blaming it on you -
perhaps you have underestimated the seriousness of the situation.
6. No one is listening until you make a mistake.
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Optimist
1. The optimist says, "My cup runneth over, what a blessing." The pessimist says, "My
cup runneth over, what a mess."
2. No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
3. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
4. No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
5. Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than look
back.
6. An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.
7. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger (difficulties); the pessimist sees danger
in every opportunity. (Sir. Winston Churchill)

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Opportunity
1. The definition of luck is when opportunity meets preparation.
2. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
3. Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. (William Arthur
Ward)
4. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work. (Thomas Edison)
5. Learn to listen, opportunity often knocks softly.
6. Killing time murders opportunities.
7. When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One
represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
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People
1. To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
2. Some persons don't know the difference between thinking for yourself, and thinking
of yourself.
3. People will believe most anything that is whispered to another.
4. It is not what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
5. Humans are interesting creatures, when given everything they need, they can't live
through hardships.
But when given very little they surpass every hardship.
6. To hate a person is a waste; half the people you hate don't care, and the other half
don't know.
7. It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
(Michael Arlen)
8. People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the
real miracle. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
9. People who are often in a hurry imagine they are energetic, when in most cases they
are simply inefficient. (Sydney J. Harris)
10. People would worry less about what others think of them if they only realised how
seldom they do.
11. Some people just don't take advice, they have to hit their own head off the wall to
believe it will hurt!!
12. The gap between advice and help is very wide.
13. The way you see people is the way you treat them.
14. If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow
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Problems
1. A problem well explained is a problem half solved.
2. Never let a problem become an excuse!
3. I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
4. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. (Henry J. Kaiser)
5. Confrontation doesn't always bring a solution to the problem, but until you confront
the problem, there will be no solution. (James Baldwin)
6. My biggest problem is that I believe almost everything I tell myself.
7. If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying?
If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? (Shantideva)
8. When confronted with a Goliath-sized problem, which way do you respond:
He's too big to hit" or like David, "He's to big to miss"?
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Politics
1. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors. (Plato)
2. All fingers are not alike,
If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism,
If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism,
If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism.
3. A politician will find an excuse to get out of anything, except office.
4. A politician will stand for what he thinks people will fall for. (Anon)
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5. A candidate is someone who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to
protect them from each other.
6. Democracy is three wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Relation
1. It is not the relation which is important, but the relationship that is important!
2. The foundation of relationships is based on the premise of mutual purpose.
3. Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers. (Greek Proverb)
4. Remember, your relatives had no choice in the matter either.

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Success
1. Success hinges on a passion for excellence. (John F. Kennedy)
2. Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal. (Coach Don Scula)
3. All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.
4. Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
5. Success is relative - the more success, the more relatives.
6. Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
7. Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have got to set your self on
fire for it. (Anon)
8. Some succeed because they are destined to. But most succeed because they are
determined to.
9. Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as
he found them, and not waited until the next year for better. (Edgar Watson Howe)

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Risks
1. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
2. Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
3. One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked
4. A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. (John A. Shedd)
5. In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. (Sheldon
Kopp)
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Self Realization
1. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
2. What really matters is what happens in us- not to us.
3. No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. (Turkish proverb)
4. Change your thoughts and you change your world. (Norman Vincent Peale)
5. Being yourself is being the person everyone else wants you to be.
6. Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
(Thomas A. Kempis)
7. Most of our suspicions of others are aroused by our knowledge of ourselves.
8. To accomplish something, the first person you have to defeat is yourself.

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Smile
1. A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the
heating system of the heart.
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2. Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
3. Smile.... it makes others wonder what you're thinking.
4. Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
5. A smile is a curve that sets things straight.
1. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
6. A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked.
7. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can
shorten it!
8. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to
laugh either. (Golda Meir)
9. I could drown in a frown and swim in a smile.
10. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
11. You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile.
12. Some people grin and bear it.
Others smile and change it.
13. The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but
seldom laugh. (Lord Chesterfield)

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Suffering
1. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
(Merle Shain)
2. Shared suffering brings people together faster than anything else does.
3. A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one.
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Time
1. Time is like money: you can either spend, waste, or invest!
2. Time is relative... The mind makes it slow, the heart makes it fast, our friends make it
worth while, and words... make it timeless.
3. An inch of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. (Chinese proverb)

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Truth
1. If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain)
2. A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. (Edgar J. Mohn)
3. A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. (C.S.
Lewis)
4. Beat me with the truth, don't torture me with lies.
5. Every truth has two sides; it is well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to
either. (Aesop)
6. Truth is not determined by majority vote. (Doug Gwyn)
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TV
1. Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work.
Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.
2. Television is bubble gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
3. I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I
go to the library and read a book. (Groucho Marx)
4. If I had my life to live over I would have cried and laughed less while watching
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television - and more while watching life. (Erma Bombeck)
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Unity
1. Nothing is as soft as water, yet who can withstand the raging flood? (Lao Ma)
2. No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
3. "Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things, but just look what they can do
when they stick together. (Vista M. Kelly)
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Words
1. Speak softly. If you really want to be heard, lower your voice. (Terri Levine)
2. Raise your voice and your dignity is lowered. (Melchor F. Cichon)
3. If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. (Dennis
Roch)
4. I am the master of my unspoken words, and a slave to those that should have
remained unspoken. (Anon)
5. Walk the words you talk and talk the words you walk.
6. If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

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Woman
1. When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. (Victor
Hugo)
2. A man who thinks he is smarter than his wife, has a very smart wife!
3. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. (Benjamin Franklin)
4. Success in marriage is more than finding the right person. It's becoming the right
person.
5. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is
usually another woman. (Mr Sim York Soo)
6. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. (Jim
Backus)
7. Beauty is quite different from charm, beauty is what you notice in a woman, charm is
when a woman notices you.
8. A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability.
9. Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct;
what they like to be is a man's last romance.
10. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not
you'll become a philosopher. (Socrates)

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God
1. A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually
results in a belief in anything.
2. God doesn't ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability. (Mary
Kay Ash)
3. Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church, and so small when
you take it to the store.
4. God is too kind to do anything cruel; too wise to make a mistake; too deep to explain
Himself.
5. God can mend a broken heart but he must have all the pieces.
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6. Don't tell God how big your problems are...tell your problems how big your God is.
7. Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
8. Don't be afraid of tomorrow, for God has already been there.
9. Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will!
10. God doesn't discriminate ... only religions do.
11. Give according to your income, lest God will make your income like your giving.
12. God had promised salvation to your repentance, but he has not promised tomorrow to
your procrastination.
13. God gave us time so that everything wouldn't happen all at once.
14. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson)
15. Are you wrinkled with burden? Come onto Church for a FAITH LIFT!
16. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
When the going still gets tough, the tough, pray.
17. Pray as if everything depended on GOD,
Act as if everything depended on yourself!
18. He who kneels before God can stand before anyone!
19. A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more
and more quiet until in the end he realized that prayer is listening. (Soren
Kierkegaard)
20. I don't feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)
21. There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when
what they really need is courage to climb them.
22. A sinning man will stop praying. A praying man will stop sinning.
23. When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't pray, they don't. (William
Temple)
24. Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
25. Units of prayer combined, like drops of water, make an ocean which defies resistance.
(E. M. Bounds)
26. Life is fragile ... handle with prayer.
27. Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.
(Carlton Pearson)
28. Man's way leads to a hopeless end! Gods way leads to an endless hope!
29. Looking back, may I be filled with gratitude;
Looking forward, may I be filled with hope;
Looking upward, may I be aware of strength;
Looking inward, may I find peace.......
30. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
31. Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. (Michelangelo)
32. Lord grant me the courage to do the things I can,
The serenity to accept the things I can't,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
33. When God closes a door He opens a window.
34. When we die we leave behind us all that we have and take with us all that we are.
35. Do you know the three times that most people are in church?
When they are hatched, matched and dispatched.
36. I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him
all night. (Smith Wigglesworth)
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37. Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. (Albert Einstein)
38. Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. (St.
Francis de Sales)

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