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Alphabetial by author's last names

A

There is no such thing as a self made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall here after inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy
• Politics

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured .

• Education
• Conflict

We give advice by the bucketful and take it by the grain.

• education
• character

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

Proverbs and quotes

• 4 eyes see more than 2.
• Anticipation is the greatest joy.
• A rumor is about as hard to unspread as butter.
• Do you know why lighting never strikes twice in the same place? It doesn t have to.
• To wonder is to begin to understand.
• People believe only what they want to believe.
• Knowledge brings the responsibility of choice.
• Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas.
• The absent are always in the wrong.
• A thinking person realizes that the right way and the easiest way are not always the same.
• When you start to sling mud, you're loosing ground.
• Gossip is telling more then you heard.
• Courtesy: Good manners may in seven words be found: Forget yourself and think of those around.
• When life hands you a lemon make lemonade.
• You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
• In sleep we are all equal.
• Even a clock is right twice a day.
• While there's life there's hope.
• A aleck is a fellow who thinks he knows as much as you know you do.
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes us happy.
• There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
• I sometimes talk when I should not. So before I do I ll try to stop.
• A horse must be broke before he'll work. So must some people.
• The greatest kindness we can offer each other is the truth.
• Accept me as I am so I may learn what I can become.
• Beware of those who fall at your feet they maybe reaching for the corner of the rug.
• Life is like a fire; it begins in smoke, and ends in ashes.
• One who is ruled by emotions often stumbles before reaching the goal.
• A person could get along just fine without money if other people weren't so crazy about it.
• A word to the wise is sufficient.
• A thinking person is guided by the facts no matter how unreal they may be.
• A thinking person learns from the mistakes of others without rejoicing in their mistakes.
• Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
• Experience is the fools best teacher; the wise do not need it.
• Isn't it strange how much we've got to know, before we know how little we know?
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes us happy.
• What was valid yesterday might well be obsolete tomorrow.
• One who is merely clever feels he has nothing to learn from others.
• When you dream, dream big.
• Thirty days hath November, April, June and September; February hath twenty-eight alone and all the rest have thirty-one.
• Caution human beings here, handle with care.
• Home is where the heart is.
• Each dawn is a new beginning.
• Everything in the world can be borne except a series of beautiful days.
• If only the people who say they feel fine would let their faces know.
• If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
• Old age is not for sissies.
• The early bird catches the worm.
• They can because they think they can.
• A thinking person realizes that the right way and the easiest are not always the same.
• A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger. Proverbs 15:1
• A wise son maketh a glad father. Proverbs 10:1
• For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. Isaih 55:8
• Greater love havth no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13
• He that is not with me is against me. Luke 11:23
• It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 21:35
• Don t worry about getting old. When you stop getting old you're dead.

• Character
• Conflict
• Economics
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not sured by another running mad also.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

Life is a theater in which the worst people often have the best seats.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

B

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

• Education
• Literacy
• Motivation
• Philosophy

It is not how long we live but how well we live.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

I am not young enough to know everything.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

I don t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong never do anything.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

A truth told with a bad intent beats all he lies you can invent.

• Character

Let us not say that every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

• Ability is of little account with out opportunity.
• Imagination rules the world.

• Creativity
• Education
• Philosophy

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

• Education
• Philosophy

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy
• Problem Solving

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lives within.

• Conflict
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

• education
• character

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but know one else does.

• Advertising
• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

• Conflict
• Education
• History
• Philosophy

Advertising promotes that discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.

• Advertising
• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

• A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg.
• Truth generally is kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
• Truth generally is kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
• He that waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
• Life is one long process of getting tired.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy
• Truth

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Some people go through life creaking.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

C

• Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most like it the least.
• You must look into people as well as at them.

• Conflict
• Ethics
• Philosophy
• Art
• Motivation

• Art, like morality, consist in drawing the line somewhere.
• Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

• Morality
• Education
• Ethics
• Philosophy
• Art

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

• Education
• Philosophy

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

• Education
• Philosophy

Behold the turtle only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

• My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
• If we open a quarrel between the past and the present; we shall find that we have lost the future.
• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

• Conflict
• Education
• History
• Politics

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

• Education
• Peace

I would rather be right then be president.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet; there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

• Character
• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

D

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

• Art
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

• Education
• History
• Motivation
• Philosophy

Complete adaptation to environment means death.  The essential point is all response is the desire to control environment.

• Education
• Philosophy

• It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
• What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
• I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. (Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.)

• Education
• Philosophy

Where there is no struggle there is no progress.

• Education
• Philosophy

Beware the fury of the patient man

• Conflict
• Character
• Philosophy

Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. it is automatic, it is thoughtless.

• Education
• Philosophy

Change is an easy panacea.  It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

• Character
• Philosophy

E

• We don t know one millionth of one per cent about anything.
• Geniuses 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

• Creativity
• Education
• Philosophy
• Information

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Information

• You are only what you are when no one is looking. Information is not knowledge.
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upoon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
• Information is not knowledge.
• As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Information

• Disregard for human beings is the 1st qualification of a dictator.
• I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Politics

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

• Education
• Philosophy

Nothing is so good as it seems before hand.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

• Where there is no vision the people perish.
• The only way to have a friend is be one.
• Do not follow where the path leads. Rather, go where there is no path and leave a trail.
• Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
• Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you. - Make yourself necessary to somebody.
• Make yourself necessary to somebody.

• Creativity
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

F

• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
• A dollar invested in a bank will earn five cents each year. A dollar invested in a good book will completely change a life.
• The question Who ought to be boss is like asking Who ought to be the tenor in a quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

• Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
• What ever begins in anger ends in shame.
• We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall hand separately.
• There are three faithful friends- an old wife, and old dog and ready money.
• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
• Up sluggard and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
• A little neglect may bread mischief; for want of a the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
• Success has ruined many a  man.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

Two roads diverged into the woods, and I - I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy
• Problem solving

Development is programmable; discovery is not.

• Education
• Philosophy

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Motivation

G

Give me the ready hand, rather than the ready tongue.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

• Creativity
• Education
• Philosophy
• Psychology

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

• Economics
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

I haven't any time to make money, and I don t want any anyhow. Money is more trouble than it's worth.

• Economics
• Education
• Philosophy

H

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

The best way I know of winning an argument is to start by being in the right.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

There is many a slip (between) twixt the cup and the lip.

• Character
• Conflict resolution
• Education
• Philosophy

What experience and history teach is this - that people and government never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

• Character
• Conflict resolution
• Education
• Philosophy

The weather cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

• Character
• Conflict resolution
• Education
• Philosophy

I have but one lamp by which to guide my feet, and that is the lamp of experience.

• Education
• Philosophy

There is nothing permanent except change.

• Education
• Philosophy

• Two head are better the one.
• Fair exchange is no robbery.
• Indeed, a friend is ne-er known till a man have need.
• One good turn deserves another.
• You stand in your own light.
• Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
• Haste makes waste.
• Children learn to creep before they learn to go.
• Look before you leap.
• Many hands make work light.
• Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? - Would ye both eat your cake and have cake?
• A man can bring a horse to water, but he can not make him drink.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

If I am not for myself who will be. But if I am only for myself, what am I.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

Knowledge is ruin to my young men.

• Character
• Education
• Philosoph
• Politics

Knowledge is a power.

• Education
• Philosophy

The mouth is 1% teeth and 99% bad breath

• Humor

• To be able to listen to others in a sympathetic and understanding way is perhaps the most effective mechanism in the world for getting along with people and tying up their friendship for good.
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
• If you win brag little, show well, crow gently, - if loose pay up, own up. These are virtues of a sporting man

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy
• Sportsmanship

Learning grows out of child's direct actions on materials.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Psychology

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

After the event the fool is wise.

• Education
• History
• Philosophy

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

• Education
• Philosophy

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

Justice is incidental to law and order.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue, agree with him.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they look indispensable.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

I

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

A nation is a society united by a about its ancestry, and by a common hate of its neighbors.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Psychology

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Psychology

I like to be able to win without bragging and loose without crying

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

J

• Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
• To wrestle with a bad feeling only pins our attention on it, where as if we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent and silently steals away.

• Conflict
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

To teach is to learn twice.

• Education
• Philosophy

• When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, 100.
• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

• Conflict
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

• We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
• Freedom is not enough.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

• Life affords no higher pleasure then that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
• It never matters how a man dies, but how he lives.
• He that waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

The worst thing that can happen is that a person doesn't count.

• Conflict
• Education
• History
• Motivation
• Philosophy

K

Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

• Education
• Philosophy

• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
• A child mis-educated is a child lost.

• Education
• Philosophy

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

• Creativity
• Education
• Philosophy

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

• Education
• History
• Philosophy

To forget the good that others do us is not good. To forget that everday the evil done to us is good indeed.

• Education
• Conflict
• Philosophy

L

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

• Advertising
• Education
• Philosophy

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

• Charater
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
• The lord prefers common looking people. That is reason he makes so many of them.

• Charater
• Education
• History
• Philosophy

Life is real! Life is earnest! And they grave is not the goal; Dust thou art, to dust returneth, Was not spoken of the soul.

• Charater
• Philosophy

• A bone to a dog is not a charity, charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.
• In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

M

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

• Conflict
• Economics
• Philosophy

Every nation has a government it deserves.

• Economics
• Philosophy
• Politics

Un-American is simply something that somebody else does not agree to.

• Economics
• Philosophy
• Politics

We should reshape our society so that we all would be trained from birth to do what society wants us to do.

• Economics
• Philosophy
• Politics

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

• Economics
• Philosophy

Anger is a stone cast into a wasp nest.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

• Conflict
• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

• You have not convinced a man because, you have silenced him.
• If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every phone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. Why wait until the last five minutes.

• Conflict
• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

N

If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of Giants.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Science

Beauty is its own reward, being a form of peace.

• Education
• Philosophy

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them & it annoys one not to give to them.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

O

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

• Education
• Philosophy

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

P

Don't ever look back something might be gaining on you.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.

• Education
• Philosophy

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Learning
• Psychology

If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.

• Art
• Education
• Philosophy

• In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Politics

• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
• Character is simply habit long continued.

• Character
• Education
• Learning
• Philosophy
• Psychology

In essence, propaganda may be unadulterated nonsense but if packaged in an easy-to-understand formula, then a significant number of people will consider this nonsense to be true.

• Media
• Education
• Learning
• Propaganda
• Literacy

R

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

Repetition is the mother of education.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

• I never met a man I didn't like.
• A man only learns in 2 ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

• Education
• Philosophy

Whoever seeks to see one race against another seeks to enslave all races.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy

• I'm only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
• The first requisite of a good citizen is this republic of ours is that he should be able to pull his own weight.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy

S

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

A child eduated only at school is an uneducated child.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

• He who has done his best for his own time has done his best for all time.
• Man is of ordinary things and habit is his nurse.
• Pain is short and joy is eternal.
• Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
• World history is the world's court.

• Character
• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy
• Humor

When right, keep right, when wrong, put right.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

• You don t live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Humor

Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

• The better part of valour is discretion.
• Misery acquaint a man with strange bedfellows.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

I never could any luster see in eyes that would never look on me.

• Education
• Philosophy

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

• Conflict
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the homeruns somebody else hits. humor sports

• Humaor
• Sports

Censorship reflects a society's lact of confidence in itself.

• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Censor

• You have to learn more to remember less.
• If you only try to be as good as the next guy, you ll never be better than anyone.
• A student can understand only what she has been prepared to understand; a teacher can teach only what she knows; and the meeting of the prepared student with the artful teacher is an unforgettable encounter for both.
• When a critical mass of people believe a myth, it becomes reality. Myths can be dispelled only when a critical mass of people see it as false.
• Being intelligent is not having some magic formula which one can apply to every problem. It is, rather, having a number of ideas and not being as much in love with one that it cannot be dropped for another.

• Education
• Motivation
• Philosophy
• Psychology

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

• Education
• Philosophy

It is better to learn late than never.

• Education
• Philosophy

T

• One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
• A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are you busy about?

• Character
• Education
• Ethics
• Philosophy

It is bad to forget the good done to you. But if someone does you a wrong, it is good to forget it that very day.

• Character
• Education
• Ethics
• Philosophy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Psychology

• The responsibilities of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.
• I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy
• Politics

Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

• Character
• Education
• Philosophy

• Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
• Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest.
• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
• All the modern inconveniences.
• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
• Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
• 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.

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Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being s heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the starlike things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.

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The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

• Education
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

• Education
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• You can't hold a man down with out staying down with him.
• We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law but we do want them for our brothers.

• Conflict
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• History

You have two voices, Your outdoor voice is fine, I'd say, For shouting out of doors, at play; but in the house we'd all rejoice if you would use your indoor voice. Your outdoor voice is big and gruff and loudest when your games are rough. Your indoor voice is soft and low when you're indoors, please keep it so.

• Conflict
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.

• Education
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• History

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

• Education
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If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, the same as everywhere.

• Education
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• Psychology
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There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

• Character
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

• Character
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• History

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

• Character
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Out of the strain of the doing, into the strain of the done.

• Character
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• An idea is salvation by imagination.
• The physician can buy his mistakes but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

• Conflict
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

• Education
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• Humor

The sweetest of all sounds is praise

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