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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. — Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 – 1969)

A good character is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents, it is not created by external advantages, it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one’s own endeavors.H — Hawes

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. — BEACONSFIELD

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. — BEACONSFIELD

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters. — Lavater

Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man. — Various

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. — Sir Winston Churchill

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. — Goethe

Charity at its best, is misplaced love; Usually it’s dangerous and doesn’t challenge the system. Go for justice! — Peter Henriot, Christian Brother, Zambia

Competition is a painful thing but it produces great results. — Jerry Flint Forbes

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. — Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. — A. Sachs

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. — Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked ‘Brightness,’ but it doesn’t work. — Gallagher

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. — Henry Ford

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life’s persistent and most urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. — Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Failure is success if we learn from it. — Malcolm Forbes

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. — J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892-1973

Fear is the little mind killer that causes total death. — Frank Herbert, Dune

For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong. — H. L. Mencken

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. — Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. — Confucious

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored. — George Saunders, last words

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. — Sir Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. — Socrates

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. — Franklin P. Jones

I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism. — Mrs. Jameson

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is
moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. — Helen Keller

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. — Douglas Adams

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. — Golda Meir (1898 – 1978)

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. — John Steinbeck

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Augustine

If you aren’t outraged by what’s going on in this world, you aren’t paying attention. — Robert Fox

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

In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlei

In the history of human kind, every act of destruction meets its response, sooner or later, in an act of creation. — Eduardo Galeano

In this wild world the fondest and the best
Are the most tried, most troubled and distress’d. — Crabbe

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

It is a farce to affirm that men are people and thus should be free, yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality. — Freire

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. — David Brin

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well. — HORACE MANN

It’s discouraging to make a mistake, but it’s humiliating when you find out you’re so unimportant that nobody noticed it. — Chuck Daly

It’s not just about good intentions, it’s about intentionally having good impact. — Ziadh Rabbani, “To Hell with Good Intentions” by Ivan Illich

Just as people cannot live without eating, so a business cannot live without profits. But most people don’t live to eat, and neither must a businesses live just to make profits…. — John Mackey

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain

Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien (better is the enemy of good) — Voltaire

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It
consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through
one’s head. — Mark Twain

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. — Nelson Mandela

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. — Corinthians 13:4, The Bible

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward. — Whipple

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen (1935 – )

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. — Longfellow

My feeling is that until the number of whole lives is greater than the number of shattered lives, we remain stuck in some kind of prehistory, unworthy of humanity’s great spirit. History as a story worth telling will only begin when the whole lives outnumber the wasted ones. That means we have many generations to go before history begins. All the inequalities must end; all the surplus wealth must be equitably distributed. Until then we are still only some kind of gibbering monkey, and humanity, as we usually like to think of it, does not yet exist. — Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt

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

Never discourage anyone … who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. — Plato (427 BC – 347 BC)

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. — Plato, 427 BC – 347 BC

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead

No matter how strong the wind of evil may blow, the flame of truth cannot be extinguished. — Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime. — W.E.B. Du Bois

On every thorn delightful wisdom grows;
In every rill a sweet instruction flows. — Dr. Young

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. — Socrates

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

Our acts make or mar us,–we are the children of our own deeds. — Victor Hugo

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. — Alfred Painter

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. — Colossians 3:2, Bible

Slow and steady wins the race. — Aesop (620 BC – 560 BC)

Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. — Alfred Pennyworth

Sometimes a slow, gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. — Craig Newmark (1952 – )

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. — Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982)

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. — Proverbs 31:8, The Bible

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy. — LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. — Chenevix

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. — William Hazlitt

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing. — Lady Nancy Astor, 1879-1964

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Biko

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. — Martin Luther King

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. — Phillips Brooks

There are three sorts of actions: those that are good, those that are bad, and those that are doubtful; and we ought to be most cautious of those that are doubtful; for we are in most danger of these doubtful actions, because they do not alarm us; and yet they insensibly lead to greater transgressions, just as the shades of twilight gradually reconcile us to darkness. — A. REED.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. — John Adams

There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered! — Charles Swindoll

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. — Colton

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as irrational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands. — Fitzosbornef

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. — Goethe

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. — ML King

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. — Roger Ascham

We are what we repeatedly do. — Aristotle (384-322 BC)

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond to them. — Abigail Adams (1744 – 1818)

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. — Stephen Covey

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires – desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. — Bertrand Russell, Roads to Freedom

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. — Kikuyu Proverb

When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask ‘why are these people poor?’ They call me a Communist. — Helder Camara

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. — Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns–or dollars. Take your choice–there is no other. — Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982)

When Providence, for secret ends,
Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends;
We must conclude it best it should be so,
And not desponding or impatient grow. — Pomfret

Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too. — Heinrich Heine

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other person is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. — Henry C Link

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. — Woodrow Wilson

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. — Evan Esar (1899 – 1995)

You cannot solve a problem with the same mindset that created it — Einstein

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. — Michael Pritchard

You have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason. Listen twice as much as you speak. — Mom’s all over the world

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. — Albert Einstein