A closed mouth gathers no foot.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but harsh words stir up anger.
- Proverbs 15:1

A good deal of trouble has been caused in the world by too much intelligence and too little wisdom.

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

A man has three names: the name he inherits, the name his parents give him, and the name he makes for himself.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
- Buddha

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.

A reputation may be repaired, but people always keep their eyes on the place where the crack is.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exup

 

Chance favors only the mind which is prepared.
- Louis Pasteur

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
- Jacqueline Bisset

Character is what you are in the dark.
- D.L. Moody

Children are like mosquitoes. The minute they stop making a noise, you know they're getting into something.

Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Joseph Joubert

Comedy is tragedy plus time.
- Carol Burnett

Conceit is the most incurable disease that is known to the human soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Concern for man and his fate must form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget that in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens...and then everybody disagrees.
- Boris Marchalov

Conscience is a playback of the still small voice that told you not to do it in the first place.

Conscience is God's presence in man.
- Emanuel Swedenborg

Conviction is worthless unless is it converted into conduct.
- Thomas Carlyle

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird--that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
- Peggy Noonan

Cynicism is often the shame-faced product of inexperience.
- A.J. Liebling

Dealing with bureaucracy is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.
- John F. Kennedy

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Discipline yourself and others won't need to.
- John Wooden

Discretion is putting two and two together and keeping your mouth shut.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
- Napoleon Hill

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
- Admiral James B. Stockdale

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Harold Whitman

Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
- Henry Ford

Don't let making a living interfere with making a life.
- John Wooden

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
- C. S. Lewis

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
- Robert Fulghum

 

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
- Ausonius

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard

Either we're pulling together or we're pulling apart. There's really no in-between.
- Kobi Yamada

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
- Henry Van Dyke

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Even fools are thought to be wise when they are silent. When they keep their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
- Proverbs 17:28

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude-Adrien Helvetius

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone has a plan until they are hit.
- Evander Holyfield

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Faith doesn't mean the absence of fear. It means having the energy to go ahead, right alongside the fear.
- Sharon Salzberg

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith never knows where it is being led. But it knows and loves the One who is leading.
- Oswald Chambers

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Few things are more dangerous to a person's integrity than having nothing to do, and plenty of time in which to do it.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.
- Philippians 4:8

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd...and never well mended.
- Benjamin Franklin

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him.
- Anonymous

Great character is the cumulative result when great pain and great disappointment intersect in a man with a teachable spirit.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein


Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
- T.S. Eliot

Handling criticism: if it's untrue, disregard it. If it's unfair, keep from irritation. If it's ignorant, smile. If it's justified, learn from it.

Happiness exists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldome to man in the course of his life.
- Benjamin Franklin

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
- Andrew Carnegie

He who talks without thinking runs more risks than he who thinks without talking.

He who thinks twice before saying nothing is wise.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
- Tom Brokaw

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Honor is better than honors.
- Abraham Lincoln

Hope...is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success...but rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
- V

 

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. And that I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.
- Edward Everett Hale

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
- E.B. White

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby

I firmly believe that any man

 

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington

Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life can only be understood backward. It must be lived forward.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.
- Harold B. Melchart

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Man is never so tall as when he kneels before God... never so great as when he humbles himself before God. And the man who kneels to God can stand up to anything.
- Louis H. Evans

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
- Dame Freya Madeleine Stark

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard

Many of life

 

Parenthood is the art of bringing up children without putting them down.

Passion makes every detail important.
- G. K. Chesterton

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth K

 

Taking first things first often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open.
- Arnold Glasow

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
- Abigail van Buren

The child who is being raised 'by the book' is probably a first edition.

The difference between an unsuccessful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Charles Spurgeon

The formula for a successful relationship is simple: Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moli

 

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Henry van Dyke

Very often a fight for what is right turns into a quarrel for what is left.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling.
- Stephen R. Covey

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.
- Frank Outlaw

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.
- Chuck Palahniuk

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind, blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes - unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
- Elisabeth K

 

and last but not least my favorite



Tact is: Changing the subject, without changing your mind.

 

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