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George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Jim Rohn
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
John Wooden
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Lao Tzu
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
John Steinbeck
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
John Wooden
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
Anton Chekhov
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Buddha
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Calvin Coolidge
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience ...
J. Michael Straczynski
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Khalil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
John Lubbock
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
Thomas A. Edison
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Confucius
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Charles Spurgeon
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final ...
Bob Marley
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Lawrence Durrell
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Edith Stein
My longing for truth was a single prayer.