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 Henry Ward Beecher
“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
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Peter Marshall
“Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.”
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 Dwight Morrow
“Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.”                                                                                       ________________________________________                                                                                                 

Saint Augustine
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”
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 David Packard
“You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.”
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Ralph W. Sockman
“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.”
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 D. L. Moody
“A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.”
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Helen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but my chief duty is to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble “
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 John J. McCloy
"Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."
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Monica Baldwin
“What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God”
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 Albert Einstein
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
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Lord Chesterfield
“Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.”
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“It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.”
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Bernard Baily
“When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.”                                                                         ________________________________________
“The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.”                                       _______________________________________
William Temple
“Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.”
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 Mahatma Gandhi
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
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The Talmud
"He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be rewarded for a whole offering; he who offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of a burnt-offering; but he who offers humility to God and man shall be rewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in the world."
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 C.S. Lewis
“If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.”
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A. Whitney Brown
“There are a billion people in China.  It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people.  Think of it.  More than a BILLION people.  That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.”
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Mark Twain
“When in doubt, tell the truth.”
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“Truth fears no questions.” 
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Leah Arendt
“Do not do what you would undo if caught.”
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“A half truth is a whole lie.”
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Edgar J. Mohn
“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”
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 Brigham Young
“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”
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“If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.” 
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 Cicero
“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”
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Euripides
“Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.”
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 Barbara Kingsolver
“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
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Cicero
“What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.”
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“Who lies for you will lie against you.” 
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Henry David Thoreau
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
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 Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”
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 Thomas Jefferson
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.”
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 Mark Twain
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
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Austin O'Malley
“Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.”
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 “With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back.”
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Bill Copeland
“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.”
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 Mark Twain
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.”
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“A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.”
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        “Beware of the half truth.  You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.”
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Proverbs 27:6
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”
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 John A. Widtsoe
“Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.”
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“Money made through dishonest practices will not last long.”
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 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”
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Socrates
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
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 Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.”
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Christian Nevell
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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 Frank Hubbard
“Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.”
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George Orwell
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
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 Gordon B. Hinckley
"Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.
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Noel Coward
“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
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 Samuel Johnson
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
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 Sir Walter Scott
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.”
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Proverbs 12:19
“The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”
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 Sam Rayburn
“Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.”
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Spencer Johnson
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
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 Thomas Carlyle
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
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Proverbs 12:20
“Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.”
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 Proverbs 11:18
“The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.”
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Antiphanes of Macedonia
“The gains of the wicked bring short-lived pleasure, but afterwards long-continued grief.”
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 Proverbs 12:5
“The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.”
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Winston Churchill
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.”
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 Psalm 101:7
“He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.”
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 Marvin J. Ashton
“God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.”
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Jeremiah 9:6
“Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.”
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 Isaiah 56:11
“Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”
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 Robert C. Edwards
“Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.”
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Christian Nevell Bovee
“Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.”
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 Matthew 24:24
“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
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Colossians 2:8
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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 Ephesians 5:6
“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”
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“There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.”
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 Psalms 101:7
“He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.”
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Karen Moline
“If you avoid the truth, you pay for your lies. A lie always does the most harm to the person who tells it.”
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 John A. Widtsoe
“Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.
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Deuteronomy 11:16
“Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them.”
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 Mattew 13:22
“He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.”
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Tad Williams
“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.  But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
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 Marvin J. Ashton
“Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.”
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 Lesley Conger
“Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the on we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator’s psyche.”
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John A. Widtsoe
“Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.”
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 John 8:44
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
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Mark E. Peterson
"Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian…it is anti--Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus."
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Jane Ace
“Home wasn't built in a day.”
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Edward Everett
“There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.”
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Clifton Fadiman
“To feel at home, stay at home.”
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“Home is home, be it ever so humble”
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Ann Douglas
“Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.”
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 Christian Morgenstern
“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”
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Kathleen Norris
“Peace - that was the other name for home.”
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 Herman Melville
“Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.”
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Bruce R. McConkie
“The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
"We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens."
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Ezra Taft Benson
"There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home."
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 David O. McKay
“No success can compensate for failure in the home.”
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David O. McKay
"In the well-ordered home we may experience a taste of heaven."
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 John A. Widtsoe
"When each man sets his own house in order, the whole world will be in order."
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“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
"Good homes are still the best source of good humans."
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Chinese Proverb
“A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.”
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 Marcus T. Cicero
“There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.”
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Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
“There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.”
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John Ed Pearce
“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to”
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 Goethe
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home”
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Maya Angelou
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
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 Robert Frost
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
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“Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes”
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 Ellie Rodriguez
“The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.”
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“It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.”
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 Jane Austen
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
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William J. Bennett
“Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.”
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 George Washington
“I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
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 Confucius
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
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      Channing Pollock
“Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments”
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 Mother Teresa
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”
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Zig Ziglar
“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”
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 George Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
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Harold B. Lee
“The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.”
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 David O. McKay
"That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other."
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Joseph F. Smith
"What then is an ideal home. ... It is one in which all worldly considerations are secondary."
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 Samuel Johnson
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands."
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 Kathleen Norris
“Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.”
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Maya Angelou
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
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          Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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Samuel Johnson
"To be happy at home is the ultimate aim of all ambitions; the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."
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 David O. McKay
"I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets."
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Joseph F. Smith
"There is no substitute for the home. Its foundation is as ancient as the world, and its mission has been ordained of God from the earliest times."
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 David O. McKay
"The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States."
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Hebert Spence
“The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home."
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 Washington Irving
"It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow."
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Winifred C. Jardine
"Your refinement shows up when you sit down to eat. Although well-mannered otherwise, you'll slide down the scale of good behavior if table manners aren't impeccable. Home is the best place to learn and practice, then you can be at ease wherever you are."
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 Zig Ziglar
“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”
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Richard L. Evans
“There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.”
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 David O. McKay
“Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your  homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.”
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Frederick W. Robertson
"Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule."
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Virgil
“The greatest wealth is health.”
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Lao Tzu
“Health is the greatest possession.”
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                   English Proverb
“Enough is as good as a feast.”
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Thomas Fuller
“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
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 Desiderius Erasmus
"Prevention is better than cure."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The first wealth is health.”
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 Danish Proverb
“Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.”
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De Saint-Real
“Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body”
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 Seneca
“To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.”
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 Publilius Syrus
"Some remedies are worse than the disease."
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George William Curtis
“Happiness lies, first of all, in health.”
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 Ovid
“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”
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Thomas Jefferson
Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man.”
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“From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.”
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Jim Rohn
“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.”
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 Thomas A. Edison
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”
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Walt Whitman
“If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.”
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“Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy.”
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 Madrianne Arvore
“An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa.”
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Alonzo Clark
“Every man's disease is his personal property.”
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 Chu Hui Weng
“To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.”
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 Joseph Addison
“Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.”
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Marcus Valerius Martial
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
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 Epicurus
“Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.”
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Confucius
“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”
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Julien Offroy de la Mettrie
“The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.”
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Thomas Dekker
“Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.”
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 Yiddish Proverb
“An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.”
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Robert C. Peale
“The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.”
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 Hannah Green
“Health is not simply the absence of sickness.”
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Publilius Syrus
“Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.”
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“Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
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 Henri Frederic Amiel
“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”
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 Italian Proverb
"He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not."
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“He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.”
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  Francis Bacon
“A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison”
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Cicero
“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.”
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 Josh Billings
“Health is like monny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”
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Joan Welsh
“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.”
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 Isaac Bickerstaff
"Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king."
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“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
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 Chinese Proverb
“He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.”
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Leon Eldred
“If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.”
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 Arabian Proverb
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
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Mark Twain
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”
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 Buddha
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
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“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”
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 A. J. Reb Materi
“So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.”
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William Londen
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”                                                                                                                                                    ________________________________________
 “A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”
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Buddha
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.”
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 Carl Gustav Jung
“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers”
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”
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 Samuel Johnson
“To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”
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 Tryon Edwards
“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”
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Samuel Butler
“I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.”
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 Doug Larson
“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
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 Quentin Regestein
“The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.”
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Cicero
“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”
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 Elbert Hubbard
“If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.”
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Henri Frederic Amiel
“To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.”
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 John Redman Coxe
“The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.”
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Alison Rose Levy
“In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.”
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 Terri Guillemets
“When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.”
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Marcel Proust
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.”
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 Terri Guillemets
“My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult D. Sun more.”
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B.K.S. Iyengar
“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”
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Ron Spallone
“The hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to acknowledge the virtues of physical morality.”
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 John Kendrick Bangs
“What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!”
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Bertha Stuart Dyment
“Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence.”
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 Zacharty Bercovitz
“Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.”
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John Armstrong
“Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene, supports the mind supports the body too.”
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 Meryl Streep
“It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.”
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John F. Kennedy
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”
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 Robert Hutchison
“The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.”
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John Locke
“If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.”
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 Moliere
“The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.”
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Martin H. Fischer
“Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.”
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 Thomas Jefferson
"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."
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 Hippocrates
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
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James J. Walsh
"People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter."
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 Adelle Davis
“As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”
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Paul Dudley White
“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
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 James H. West
“Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well…and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.”               _______________________________________
Nursery Rhyme
“The best six doctors anywhere, and no one can deny it are: sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend, if only you are willing. Your mind they'll ease, your will they'll mend, and charge you not a shilling.”
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 Thomas Jefferson
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
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Larry Dossey
“The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, ‘tender loving care’ has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.”
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Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
“Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.”
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Lord Byron
“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.”
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 Henry David Thoreau
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
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The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
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 Anne Frank
“Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy!”
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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
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 Fontenelle
“A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.”
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Roy M. Goodman
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel — not a destination.”
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 Cynthia Nelms
“Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
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Colette
“What a wonderful life I've had!  I only wish I'd realized it sooner.”
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“He who would possess happiness must pay the price of effort.”
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 Werner Erhard
“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”  
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John 13:17
“If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”
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 Eric Hoffer
“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
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John 15:11
“I have spoken unto you ...that your joy might be full.”
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 Buddha
“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”
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Edith Wharton
“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.”
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 Proverbs 3:13
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
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“Righteousness always brings joy, and sin always brings misery no matter what the ads say.”
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 Lorenzo Snow
“Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.”.
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Milton R. Hunter
“Happiness comes from within, and not from without.”
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                    Stephen L. Richards
“I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.”
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Proverbs 17:22 –
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
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 George Santayana
“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
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Andrew Carnegie
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
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 Eleanor Roosevelt
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
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 Leo Tolstoy
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
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Samuel Johnson
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.”
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 Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
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Charles Schulz
“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.”
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Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.”
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 Psalms 127:4-5
“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.”
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“Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.”
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 Benjamin Disraeli
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
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Martha Washington
“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”
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 John Milton
“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”
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Proverbs 14:21
“He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.”
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 Bertrand Russell
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Happiness does not depend upon what happens outside of you, but on what happens inside of you. It is measured by the spirit with which you meet the problems of life.”
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 Jim Thomson
“I can only think of one thing greater than being happy and that is to help another to be happy, too.”
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Ben Franklin
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
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       Proverbs 16:20
“He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.”
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Proverbs 29:18
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
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 Robert Muller
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
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C. P. Snow
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”
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 1 Peter 3:14
“But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
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 James M. Barrie
“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
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 Romans 14:17
“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
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Psalms 146:5
“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.”
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 Kin Hubbard
“It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.”
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      James Oppenheim
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
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Helen Keller
“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
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 Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
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Tenzin Gyatso
“The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.”
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Groucho Marx
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
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Carl Jung
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
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 David Steindl-Rast
“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.”
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Tenzin Gyatso
“The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.”
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W. Beran Wolfe
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.”
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Helen Keller
“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”
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 Peyton Conway March
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
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Carl Jung
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
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 John Templeton
“Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.”
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 Ezra Taft Benson
"Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love."
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Alexandre Dumas
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order to be happy. Happiness isn't there. Happiness isn't in a new car, it isn't in a new and luxurious apartment. Happiness isn't in banks and stocks. Happiness is where you make it, it's up to you. It comes from within, it doesn't come from things.”
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 “Old habits die hard.”
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 Joseph Kaines
“Habit is overcome by habit.”
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St. Augustine
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
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 Ovid
“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
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“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”
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 Vincent Lombardi
“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
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Ovid
“Habits change into character.”
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“The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.”
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Gilbert Parker
“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”
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 Benjamin Franklin
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
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Leo Aikman
“The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.”
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 Henri de Lubac
“Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.”
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Evenus
“Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued that at last becomes man himself.”
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 Mignon McLaughlin
“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.”
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Confucius
“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
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 Horace Mann
“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”
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Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
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 Desiderius Erasmus
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
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Zig Ziglar
“When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit.”
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Brian Tracy
“Successful people are simply those with success habits.”
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 Zig Ziglar
“We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you”
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 “Good habits result from resisting temptation.”
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"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."
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 Charles A. Jaffe
“It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.”
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    Mortimer Caplan
“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
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 Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
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George Washington Carver
“99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
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 John Dryden
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Jim Ryun
“Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.”~Jim Ryun
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“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.” ________________________________________
 Nathaniel Emmons
“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.”
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“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.”
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 Samuel Johnson
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
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Rob Gilbert
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
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 Albert Einstein
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking”
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“Habit is more important in determining our destiny than almost any other influence.”
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H. W. Shaw
“It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.”
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Orison Swett Marden
“Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.”
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 Benjamin Franklin
“Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.”
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Aristotle
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
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Mark Twain
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
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Frank A. Clark
“A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.”
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 Somerset Maugham
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.”
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Feodor Dostoevski
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
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Georges Gurdjieff
“ Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.”
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Wayne W. Dyer
"You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'."
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Tyron Edwards
“Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
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 Albert Gray
“Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.”
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“Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!”
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 Paul Myer
“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.”
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Henry Hancock
“Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.”
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 Stephen R. Covey
“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...”
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“It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.”
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 Charles Dickens
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
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Earl Nightingale
“We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.”
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 William James
“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
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Jenny Craig
“It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.”
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 Jo Coudert
“The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.”
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Charles Reader
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act;/ Sow an act, and you reap a habit;/ Sow a habit, and you reap a character;/ Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
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 Doug Firebaugh
“Something must die in order to grow - your old habits, your old self image, your old thinking, your old life - must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow.”
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Henry Giles
“The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted.”
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 William James
“Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.”
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Stephen R. Covey
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
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“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.”
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Tilloyson
“When we have practiced good actions awhile they become easy; when they are easy we take pleasure in them; when they please us we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act they grow into habit.”
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William James
“To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.”
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Mark Twain
“Be good and you will be lonely”
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 William Shakespeare
“He is not great who is not greatly good.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be simple is to be great”
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 Goethe
“Everything great and intelligent is in the minority”
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Zadok Rabinwitz
“A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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Dolly Parton
“It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
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 Calvin Coolidge
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
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Mario Puzo
“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
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 Ralpho Waldo Emerson
"Every great man is unique."
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Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
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 Hitopadesa
"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
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 Benjamin Disreali
"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
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 Arthur Schopenhauer
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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Lou Holtz
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." Lou Holtz
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest man in history was the poorest”
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Mencius
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. "
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 Brian Tracy
"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
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Winston Churchill
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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 John F. Kennedy
"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage."
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Hebbel
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.”
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 Harry Gray
“No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.”
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Alfred Victor Vigny
“Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.”
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 Philip Guedalla
“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success”
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Cher
“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”
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 Thomas Carlyle
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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Horace Mann
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
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Judy Garland
“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
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 Elbert Hubbard
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.”
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 Helen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble”
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Orison Swett Marden
“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.”
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William Allen White
“Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.”
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 Martina Navratilova
“The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.”                                                                      _______________________________________
Mark Twain
“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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 Steve Maraboli
“Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.”
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Henry David Thoreau
"Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well."
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 Martin Luther King Jr.
“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”
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Ray Davis
“Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'"
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 Beryl Markham
“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
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William F. Halsey
"There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet."
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 William Shakespeare
"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
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Marya Mannes
"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
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 Steve Maraboli
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.”
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"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great."
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 Billy Mills
"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself."
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Lawrence D. Bell
"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."
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 Sherman Finesilver
"Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness…For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs."
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Froude
"True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind."
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 Abraham Lincoln
"…I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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John Ruskin
"Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
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Buck Rodgers
“There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
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 Henry Eyring
"Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men’s minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history…”
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John F. Kennedy
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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“I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.”
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 G.B. Stern
“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
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 George Colman
“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
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“Gratitude is the best attitude.”
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 John Dryden
“If you have lived, take thankfully the past.”
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John Wells
"The spirit of gratitude always bring happiness."
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“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
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Joseph Wood Krutch
“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
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 Aesop
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
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“Most of us are not grateful for things until we lose them.”
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 Robeert Quillen
“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
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Kak Sri
“Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.”
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 William Romaine
"Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven."
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Ausonius
“Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man."
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 Roberto Benigni
“It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.”
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Cynthia Ozick
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” 
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 Eric Hoffer
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
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“No matter how blessed you are you are not happy until you realize it.”
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 Fyodor Dostovevsky
“Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys."
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William James
“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”
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 Ezra Taft Benson
"We should confess His hand in all things.  Ingratitude is one of our great sins."
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Cicero
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
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 Lauryn Hill
“Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.”
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
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William Arthur Ward
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
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1 Thessalonians 5:18
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
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 John E. Southard
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”
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Bertolt Brecht
“What a miserable thing life is:  you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.”
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 Gerald Good
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.  It will change your life mightily.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
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 R. H. Blyth
“There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.”
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Goethe
"Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home."
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Meister Eckhart
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.”
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Izaak Walton
"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."
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“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.”
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William Arthur Ward
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?”
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H.U. Westermayer
“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”
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Hosea Ballou
"If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parents, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our Father in Heaven?"
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 Dale Carnegie
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do.  But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving."
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Thoreau
“Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
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 Marion G. Romney
“It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment
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Robert Brault
“There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.  If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.”
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 Frank A. Clark
“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.”
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2 Timothy 3:2
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy."
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 Epictetus
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
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“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
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Thornton Wilder
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
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W. Eugene Hansen
"It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge.  With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good."
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 Eileen Caddy
“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”
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Christiane Northrup
"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."
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 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
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Hazrat Inayat Khan
“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”
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Philip Schaff
“Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.”
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Lorenzo Snow
"If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude."
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 Denis Waitley
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
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Alfred North Whitehead
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
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 N. Eldon Tanner
“As we express our appreciation of our many blessings, we become more conscious of what the Lord has done for us, and thereby we become more appreciative
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“Expressing gratitude on a regular basis, whether to friends and family or to the Lord, can bring a joy into our lives that will make each day a happily anticipated experience.”       ________________________________________
 Henry Ward Beecher
“The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
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Terri Guillemets
“As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily.  The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.”
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 Joseph Addison
“There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.  It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.”
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Brian Tracy
"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
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Buddha
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”
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George Lillo
"When thankfulness overflows the swelling heart and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious Heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessing."
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Lorenzo Snow
“If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord, let him, when something of a very disagreeable nature comes along, think how worse the circumstance might be, or think of something worse that he has experienced in the past. Always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is actually the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.”
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Albert Schweizer
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”

 Spencer W. Kimball
“Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day as did the lepers their newfound health, without a word of thanks. We would thank the person who gives us a seat in the bus, the person who offers a ride, the friend who picks up the check after dinner, the person who does the baby-sitting, or the boy who cuts our lawn, but do we express gratitude to Him who gives us all?

"Sight before hearsay."

Virgil
"Rumor grows as it goes."

 David O. McKay
"Slander is poison to the soul."

Alexander Pope
"At every word a reputation dies."

"Gossiping and lying go hand in hand."

N. Eldon Tanner
"Gossip is the worst form of judging."

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth."

Will Rogers
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

 Billy Graham
“A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”

Pythagoras
"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will."

 John Tudor
“A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.”
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Sir Philip Sidney
“No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.”

 Will Rogers
“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.”

“Some people will believe anything if it's whispered to them.”

“I don't repeat gossip so listen close because I’m only going to say once.”
Charles Caleb Colton
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
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Joseph Conrad
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
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 David O. McKay
"Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy."
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To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness
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 Shana Alexander
“Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.”
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Early Wilson
“Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.”
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“What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.”
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Bertrand Russell
“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
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“The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.”
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“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.”
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 Exodus 20:16
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
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Psalms 34:13
“Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.”
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“Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.”
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Psalms: 101:5
“Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off.”
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 Publilius Syrus
"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."
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Will Rogers
“So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
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 Cato the Elder
“We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.”
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Victor Hugo
"For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern."
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 Henry Ward Beecher
"He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds."
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Blaise Pascal
"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world."
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 Alexander Pope
"And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too."
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Walter Winchell
"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.”
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Proverbs 11:13
“A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
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 Frank A. Clark
“Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.”
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Dolley Madison
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”
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Proverbs 26:20
“Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.”
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 Edgar Howe
“When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.”
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Johann K. Lavater
“Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?”
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 James Truslow Adams
“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.”
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Horace
"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them."
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 Proverbs  13:3
“He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.”
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Kahlil Gibran
“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”
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 Matthew 7:3
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
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Matthew 12:36
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”
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“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”
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Luke 6:37
“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”
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James 1:26
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.”
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Douglas Adams
“Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.”
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“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking…”
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Lisa Kirk
“A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself."
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 Marvin J. Ashton
"How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention."
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James 4:11
“Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.”
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 Marvin J. Ashton
“Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren’t terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.”
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Phyllis Mcginley
"Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man’s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower."
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Brigham Young
"If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."
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Henry Van Dyke
"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it."
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New Era Magazine
“Many people think gossip is the spreading of falsehoods or rumors. Of course, that kind of behavior is absolutely wrong, no question about it. But gossip also involves telling people personal things about another when it really is none of their business. Whether the information is true or not is not the issue. If telling others will do harm, cause embarrassment, or give faulty perceptions, then you have an obligation to stop the gossip by not spreading it to others.”  _______________________________________
Marcus T. Cicero
Before beginning, plan carefully.”
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“A target, to be hit, must be seen.”
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 Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything”
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“An unwritten goal is merely a wish.”
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Norman Vincent Peale
“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.”
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“No aim leads to no end”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
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 John A. Widstoe
“There never was a revelation without a question first.”
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Albert Schweitzer
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
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"If we fail to plan, we plan to fail."
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Richard C. Cushing
“Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
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“If you chase two rabbits both will escape.”
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James 1:22
"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."
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 James Russell Lowell
"No man is every born into the world whose work is not born with him."
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“A goal is an end that one strives to attain.”
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Chuck Knox
“Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.”
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"Obstacles are things we see when we take our eyes off the goal."
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Richard L. Evans
"We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do."
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.”
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“If you really understood you were a child of God everything else would fall into place.”
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 Philippians 4:13
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
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Acts 9:6
“And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
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Harvey Mackay
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men’s souls.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.”
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“Too much time is spent watching others live out their dreams while missing our own”
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Alan Lakein
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”
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 Earl Nightingale
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Reach and strain... .Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars."
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 Thomas S. Monson
“Study with purpose, both in church and in school. Write down your goals and what you plan to do to achieve them. Aim high, for you are capable…”
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"All the world stands aside for the man who knows where he is going and how he is going to get there."
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 Joseph F. Smith
“Every son and every daughter of God has received some talent, and  each will be held to strict account for the use or misuse to which it is put."
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Chuck Coonradt
“In the absence of clearly defined goals, we are forced to concentrate on activity and ultimately become enslaved by it."
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W.E. Ziege
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."
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Ben Stein
“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”
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Lou Holtz
"If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don't have enough goals."
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"The man who thinks out what he wants to do, and then works and works hard, will win, and no others do, or ever have, or can--God will not have it so."
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“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your whole life running up and down the field and never scoring.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
"Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely."
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Goals are good.  Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best."
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 Ezra Taft Benson
”We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.”
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Randal Wright
“If you spend too much time watching others achieving their dreams you may well miss your own.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“There is a blueprint for every accomplishment--all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.”
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 Ronald Reagan
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”
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Steve Garvey
“You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.”
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 Ezra Taft Benson
“When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination. ______________________________________
Neal A. Maxwell
“Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.”
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 Richard G. Scott
"Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life."
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off."
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 M. Russell Ballard
“Set...goals that you can reach. Set goals that are well balanced--not too many not too few, and not too high not too low. Write down your attainable goals and work on them according to their importance. Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
"You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.".
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Ezra Taft Benson
Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into one burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive. Without knowing it, we may be torn by conflicting impulses or desires.”
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Franklin D. Richards
“It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark within him. Such characterizations infer that man possesses great abilities and potentials. We are frequently admonished to develop our capabilities, reach out, and set high goals for ourselves.”
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 Robert L. Simpson
“Often we hear folks say, "I can't see the forest for the trees." How important it is for us to ascend a vantage point from time to time, above the fog that my friend referred to; there to check direction and relative position, there to decide on things of most importance; there to re-evaluate our goals.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward -- only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!”
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Ezra Taft Benson
If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of accomplishment and the challenge of establishing fresh, new goals -- always keeping the long-range objective in mind. If we can state our goals clearly, we will gain a purpose and meaning in all our actions.                                                                               _______________________________________
Neal A. Maxwell
“Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives
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Ezra Taft Benson
“If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing -- goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.”
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 Neal A. Maxwell
“Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little goal setting, including the reflecting that precedes the setting of such goals. Too many marriages have financial goals but not other explicit goals. Yet the gospel is certainly goal-oriented.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Goals, to be most helpful, need to be or include (1) personal or individual goals, (2) specific goals (a vague goal is no goal at all), and (3) a specific timetable for accomplishment. Then there are these added elements often neglected: the goal should be (4) written (it is less apt to be forgotten and can vex us properly); (5) "registered" (if appropriate, with certain others who can urge us on to its accomplishment); and (6) do-able or attainable.”
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M. Russell Ballard
“Maybe some of you get weary of listening to the principle of setting goals. But let me tell you something about goal setting. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When one learns to master the principle of setting a goal, he will then be able to make a great difference in the results he attains in this life.”
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Howard W. Hunter
"To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us---on eternal life and the joy of salvation---we assuredly will obtain it."
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“As well as establishing worthy goals, charting the course presents one from living an unplanned, haphazard life a tumbleweed existence. Over the…plains, upon the hillsides and along the fence-lines of the valleys, grows the tumbleweed. When mature and dry, the plant breaks from its roots and, as a rounded tangle of light stiff branches, rolls about like a ball. If the wind blows west, the weed rolls against the western fences. With each direction change in the wind, the rounded weed rolls with it, following lines of least resistance until stopped by fences or walls or ditch banks. As the wind blows down the road, the tumbleweeds go rolling like mammoth marbles thrown from a giant hand.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
A. Alone or in a group write down in two minutes five major lifetime goals you have.
B. Next, write down in two minutes five major goals for the next year of your life.
C. Next, write down in two minutes five major goals you'd pursue if you knew you only had six months to live.
D. Finally, write down in two minutes specific ways in which you have spent time during the last week of your life that relate to the goals listed in A, B, and C.
This exercise in pondering (under pressure of time) tends to make explicit much that is often unarticulated. The exercise also tends to produce family -- centered and gospel centered goals -- strategic things tend to emerge and mundane tactical things to shrink in their psychological size. The last two minutes are usually the most uncomfortable for participants, because we see how unconnected our expenditures of time are to some of our real goals.
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 Abraham Lincoln
“With malice toward none; with charity for all.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
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 R. E. Phillips
“You only keep what you give away.”
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Vauvenargues
“Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.”
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 Samuel Johnson
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.”
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“You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.”
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  Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
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“First, give yourself to

 Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
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“First, give yourself to God. You may be sure he'll look after what is his.”
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 Albert Camus
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."
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Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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 John D. Rockefeller Jr.
"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
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“He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."
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 Dale Evans
“Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.”
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“The millionaires in eternity are the givers in time.”
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 Ghandi
"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others."
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The smallest good deed is worth a thousand grand intentions
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 Frank Howard Clark
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."
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“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
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Bob Hope
“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
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 Nelson Henderson
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
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Albert Einstein
"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."
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 Ashleigh Brilliant
"Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can."
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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
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George H. W. Bush
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.
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Kahlil Gibran
“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
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William Blake
“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."
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Albert Pike
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
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Seneca
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
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2 Corinthians 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
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Proverbs 19:17
“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
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“You have never really lived until you've done something for somebody who can never repay you.”
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Calvin Coolidge
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
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 John Bunyon
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
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Audrey Hepburn
"You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and the other is for helping others."
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Ray Lyman Wilbur
"Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness."
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Orison Swett Marden
"We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest."
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
“When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.”
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Helen Keller
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
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 Horace Mann
“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”
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John Wesley
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”
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"Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs."
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Acts 20: 35
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
________________________________________                                                                                                     Og Mandino
"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
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Etienne de Grellet
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
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Susan Sarandon
“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”
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 Norman Vincent Peale
"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."
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 Jeffrey R. Holland
…The word generosity has the same derivation as the word genealogy, both coming from the Latin genus, meaning of the same birth or kind, the same family or gender. We will always find it easier to be generous when we remember that this person being favored is truly one of our own.”
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 George Herbert
“The offender never pardons.”
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Alexander Pope
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
________________________________________                                                                                       William Blake
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
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Robert Quillen
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
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 Reinhold Niebuhr
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
________________________________________                                                                                               Mahatma Gandhi
“Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.”
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“Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.”
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 William A. Ward
“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
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Louis B. Smedes
“It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.”
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 Psalms 103:3
“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;”
________________________________________                                                                                        Abraham Lincoln
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
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 Josh Billings
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.”
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 George MacDonald
“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Marion G. Romney
"Forgiveness is as wide as repentance."
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Robert L. Simpson
"As we forgive, we achieve the right to be forgiven."
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Randall Worley
“Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.”
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 Franklin P. Adams
“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”
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Dolores Huerta
“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”
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Harold B. Lee
“The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.”
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Hugh B. Brown
"No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future."
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Marion D. Hanks
“The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.”
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Mark Twain
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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Lewis B. Smedes
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
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Paul Boese
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
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 Robert Brault
“If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.”
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William Blake
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
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 Harriet Nelson
“Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.”
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George Herbert
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
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Frank McKinney
“Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.”
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 Thomas A’Kempis
“Know all and you will pardon all.”
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 Martha Kilpatrick
“Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen.”
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“No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.”
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“It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an even stronger person to forgive.”
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Voltaire
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.”
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 Numbers 14:18
“The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression…”
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Joseph Smith
"Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous."
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 Isaiah 6:7
“And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
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Isaiah 43:25
“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.”
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George Herbert
“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven
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Spencer W. Kimball
"The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.
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“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
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Lewis B. Smedes
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
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 Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all…let us…bind up the nation's wounds."       ________________________________________
“You may know you have been forgiven if you have peace of conscience and you no longer feel guilty.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.”
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J. Golden Kimball
"If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors."
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 Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
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Jessamyn West
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
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 Luke 6:37
“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:”
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Lord Chesterfield
“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.”
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 Logan Pearsall Smith
“Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.”
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Sydney Harris
“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
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 Roberto Assagioli
“Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
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Cherie Carter-Scott
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.”
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Claire London
“I have learned that sometimes "sorry" is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.”
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Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
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Bernard Meltzer
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
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 Jean Paul Richter
“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
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Cherie Carter-Scott
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
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 Lawana Blackwell
“Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.”
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Hyrum M. Smith
"No man can find forgiveness for one sin because he is righteous in some other direction.
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 E. H. Chapin
“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.”
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“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
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 Dag Hammarskjold
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
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Ephesians 4:32
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
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“A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.”
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H. Jackson Brown
“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
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Martha Kilpatrick
“We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.”
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Ezekiel 33:16
“None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.”
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“The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.”
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 Doc Childre
“Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile.”
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Stephen Crosby
“A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals.”
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 Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
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Matthew 5:44
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
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Mark 4:12
“That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.”
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Matthew 9:6
“But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.”
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 Matthew 6:14-15
"For if ye forgive men their trepasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
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Daniel H. Ludlow
"When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right."
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Louis B. Smedes
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
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Jerimiah 33:8
“And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.”
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
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“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”
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Sara Paddison
“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.”
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Dr. Sidney Simon
"Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves."
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 Ezekiel 18:21-22
“But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live."
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Thomas S. Monsen
“Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt—then step forward with ‘I am truly sorry! Let’s be as we once were: friends. Let’s not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time’? Let’s remove any hidd

Let’s remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.”
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 Lance Morrow
"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare."
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David & Bruce McArthur
“Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively.”
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Richard G. Scott
"If you, through poor judgment, were to cover your shoes with mud, would you leave them that way? Of course not. You would cleanse and restore them. Would you then gather the residue of mud and place it in an envelope to show others the mistake that you made? No. Neither should you continue to relive forgiven sin. Every time such thoughts come into your mind, turn your heart in gratitude to the Savior, who gave His life that we, through faith in Him and obedience to His teachings, can overcome transgression and conquer its depressing influence in our lives."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.
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 Gordon B. Hinckley
“How difficult it is for any of us to forgive those who have injured us. We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. Is it? I submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one's abilities in planning retribution. There is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. There is no happiness in living for the day when you can "get even."
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Thomas Fuller
“Debt is the worst poverty.”
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“Earn interest don’t pay interest
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“Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible!!”
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"Greed is wanting something for nothing."
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"A fool and his money are soon parted."
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Lonnie "Common" Lynn
"A rich man is one with knowledge, happiness and his health."
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“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!”
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Napoleon Hill
"Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty."
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“Contentment may be the most powerful financial tool.
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Gloria Steinem
“We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.”
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“An emergency fund turns a crisis into an inconvenience.”
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 Charles A. Jaffe
“It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.”
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“Your own security boils down to your own ability.”
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Earl Wilson
“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
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 P. J. O'Rourke
"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."
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 Benjamin Franklin
“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
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Ambrose Bierce
“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.”
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One cannot fully master money without mastering oneself.
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James Howell
“The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.”
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 Publilius Syrus
“Debt is the slavery of the free.”
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Never loan money to a relative; it gives them amnesia.
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 J. Golden Kimball
"An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt."
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Francis Lyman
"A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially."
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 Benjamin Franklin
“Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.”
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"Greed is wanting something for nothing."
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 Benjamin Franklin
"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."
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“Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.”
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“Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid!”
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 Honore de Balzac
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
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“You become what you think about. What are you thinking about?”
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Will Rogers
"Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff."
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“The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more.”
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“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without!”
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Confucius
"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."
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“Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.”
________________________________________                                                                                   Thomas Fuller
“Debt is the worst poverty.”
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"The love of money is the root of all evil."
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John H. Vandenberg
"Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall."
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  “Giving is much more than giving!! Give as much as you can!!”
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Larry Burqhardt
“Money problems aren't the problem, they are the symptom.”
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“Keep your eye on where you want to go, not where you are going!”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
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“Is there a cause greater than you that is worthy of your life?”
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Proverbs 22:7
“The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
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"One sure way to make life miserable is to live in a manner that you can't afford."
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“If money was no object, what would you spend your time doing?”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Inflation hasn't ruined everything.  A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.”
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“Wisdom is seeing tomorrow's consequences of today's events!”
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1 Timothy 6:10
“For the love of money is the root of all evil…
________________________________________                                                                                                Coco Chanel
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
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“A man will never grow rich until he is willing to be poor without feeling deprived.”
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Financial security is more a function of how you spend, than how much money you earn.
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"If you want to know what a man is really like, make notice how he acts when he loses money."
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 Bob Hope
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”
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“The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.” 
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 Suze Orman
“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth.. both financial affluence and emotional security.”
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“When investing, remember this Chinese proverb: "Only a fool tests the water with both feet"
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 Frank Hubbard
“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”
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Warren Buffet
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
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“Feel the fear and move through it!! Start your journey to financial freedom today.”
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“The return OF your principle is more important than the return ON your principle.”
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 Henrik Ibsen
"There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt."
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John Randolph
"I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold: it is, 'Pay as you go!'"
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 Henrik Ibsen
"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."
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Reed Smoot
"I tell you that to an honest man there is no bondage...greater than the bondage of debt."
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 Matthew 16:26
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
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Edward Gibbon
“I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.”
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Will Rogers
“Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.”
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Ogden Nash
“Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.”
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 Heber J. Grant
"...If there is any one thing that is grinding, and discouraging and disheartening it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet."
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“When making major decisions, seek advice from an unaffiliated party that can see through the emotion.”
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 Brigham Young
“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage”
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“Don't put all your eggs in one basket!! Diversify your portfolio, become educated in more than one field!”
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Stephen L. Richards
"Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves.  It has enslaved thousands in its meshes.  It has wrecked happy homes."
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“Life Changes!! Make, modify and maintain a list of those things that never change for you! This will anchor your life!”
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 Gordon B. Hinckley
“Be modest in your wants…There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“We must learn to separate need from greed…We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.”
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“If you want something different than you've been getting, you need to DO something different than you're doing!”
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Stephen L. Richards
"Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.”
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J. Ruben Clark
"Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow."
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Patrick Delany
"Paying of debt is, next to the grace of God, the best means of delivering you from a thousand temptations to vanity and sin."
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Boyd K. Packer
"There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance."
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"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but ...make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
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Franklin D. Richards
"Financial strength is realized by keeping god's commandments, ..payment of..honest tithe..work..being thrifty and living within one's income.."
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Dan Millman
“Money is neither my god nor my devil.  It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.”
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Warren Buffet
"Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes little sense for those who know what they're doing."
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Robert Kiyosaki
"Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous."
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Robert Orben
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
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Robert Kiyosaki
"Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing."
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Robert Kiyosaki
"If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich."
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"Too many of us are spending money we haven't earned to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like."
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Warren Buffet
"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
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Billy Graham
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
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Robert Kiyosaki
"In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich."
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Romans 13:8
“Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law...owe no man anything, but to love one another
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“Life Changes!! Make, modify and maintain a list of those things that never change for you! This will anchor your life!”
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“Financial stress within a marriage is the result of a lack of unity in financial perspectives, priorities, purposes and practices.”
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Brigham Young
"If you.” wish to get rich, save what you get.  A fool can earn money but it takes a wise man to save.."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Financial peace of mind is not determined by how much we make, but is dependent upon how much we spend!”
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“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.”
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“Debt is paying for current desires with future earnings. It weighs on your spirit, reduces self esteem and restricts your choices.”
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"I had a dollar. I had a friend. I gave my dollar to my friend. Now I have no dollar and have no friend."
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“Being in debt frequently causes or reinforces feelings of depression , alienation and loneliness and causes a slow, progressive waning of self worth.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
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“Most of the things we suffer in life are consequences of throwing away what we want most for what we want now!”
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Stephen L. Richards
"[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men.  It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations..."
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"We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from."
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George Horace Lorimer
“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Gordon B. Hinckley
“I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.”
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Rutherford B. Hayes
“Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.”
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“Let us use the opportunity we have to speed up repayment of mortgages and to set aside provisions for education, possible periods of decreased earning power, and emergencies the future may hold.”                                                                                     ________________________________________
Mary Hunt
“As long as you believe that you are what you drive and that no matter what, you deserve to drive the car you can afford to want, you will probably remain financially enslaved by automobile ownership.”                                                                                         ________________________________________                                                                                           Robert Kiyosaki
"I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop."
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“Happiness does not consist in getting something, it consists in becoming something. It may be nice to have some of the things money can buy if we make sure we never lose the things that money can’t buy.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.”
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 Mark Burnett
"I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what’s possible if you have some vision to take big risks."
________________________________________                                                                                                   John D. Rockefeller
"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience."
________________________________________                                                                                Gordon B. Hinckley
“Perhaps our greatest concern is with families. The family is falling apart all over the world. The old ties that bound together father and mother and children are breaking everywhere. We must face this in our own midst. There are too many broken homes among our own. The love that led to marriage somehow evaporates, and hatred fills its place. Hearts are broken, children weep…”
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Stephen L Richards
“Debt is a taskmaster to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes. It has bred defalcation, embezzlement, and other crimes. It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises, and nations.”
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 Jeffrey R. Holland
"How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent of all divorces could be traced to quarrels and accusations over money. Another study estimated that 75 percent of all divorces result from clashes over finances. Some professional counselors indicated that four out of every five families wrestle with serious money problems…”
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Thomas S. Monson
“Avoid the philosophy that yesterday’s luxuries have become today’s necessities. They aren’t necessities unless we make them so. Many enter into long-term debt only to find that changes occur:  people become ill or incapacitated, companies fail or downsize, jobs are lost, natural disasters befall us. For many reasons, payments on large amounts of debt can no longer be made. Our debt becomes as a…sword hanging over our heads and threatening to destroy us.”
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 J. Ruben Clark
"Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation…it is never laid off work…it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused… it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it…and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you."
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Joe J. Christensen
“Learn to live within your means. Some of the most difficult challenges in marriage arise in the area of finances…Be willing to postpone or forgo some purchases in order to stay within your budget. Pay your tithing first, and avoid debt insofar as possible. Remember that spending fifty dollars a month less than you receive equals happiness and spending fifty more equals misery. The time may have come to get out the scissors and your credit cards and perform…some “plastic surgery”
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 Babe Ruth
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
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 Napoleon I
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.:
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“A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.”
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Robin Williams
“The things which we fear the most in life have already happened to us.”
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Marie Curie
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.:
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“Fear:  False Evidence Appearing Real.”
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“He who fears something gives it power over him.”
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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Oscar Wilde
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
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 Byron Janis
“Fear breeds fear.”
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“Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.”
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“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
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Voltaire
“Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.”
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“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”
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Michael Pritchard
“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.”
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“You don't face your fears, you stand up to them.”
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Lactantius
“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.”
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it.”
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Aristotle
“Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.”
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 Bertrand Russell
“All forms of fear produce fatigue.”
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“Fear is the prison of the heart.”
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 Bertrand Russell
“The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.”
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“Fear not that your life will someday end. Fear only that you do nothing with it.”
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 A. C. Benson
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.”
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Livy
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
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FEAR is just a four letter word
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T.A. Sachs
“To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.”
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 Mohandas Gandhi
“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary."
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 Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
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 Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
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Mark Twain
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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 Joel Osteen
“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
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Aristotle
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
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John F. Kennedy
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
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John Berryman
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
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 Marcel Proust
“People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.”
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Leonardo da Vinci
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
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 Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.”
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Samuel Butler
“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”
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“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.”
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 Brendan Francis
“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”
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Christopher Coan
“Fear cannot take what you do not give it.”
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 Bertrand Russell
“Those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
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Ruth Gendler
“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.”
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 Bertrand Russell
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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Jawaharlal Nehru
“A man who is afraid will do anything.”
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 Marcus Annaeus Seneca
“Where fear is, happiness is not.”
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Marie Curie
“Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.”
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 Usman B. Asif
“Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.”
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 Andre Gide
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
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Mary Tricky
“Fear is faith that it won't work out.”
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 Arnold Glasow
“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
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Henry H. Tweedy
“Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.”
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 Marcus Annaeus Seneca
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“What begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
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 Katherine Paterson
“To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
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George S. Patton
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
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Mary Manin Morrissey
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
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Aeschylus
“There are times when fear is good.  It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
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 Betty Bender
“Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.”
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2 Timothy 1:7
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
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 Eric Hoffer
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
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Eddie Rickenbacher
“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”
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 Billy Graham
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.”
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Corra Harris
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”
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 Morihei Ueshiba
“Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.”
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 Edmund Burke
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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 John M. Wilson
“Fear, if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release.”
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James F. Bell
“Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.”
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Lloyd C. Douglas
“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”
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Henry Louis Mencken
“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”
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Brendan Francis
“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.”
________________________________________                                                                                        Frederick W. Cropp
“There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.”
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George Matthew Adams
“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.”
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Erica Jong
“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”
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Lady Bird Johnson
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
________________________________________                                                                                      Ambrose Redmoon
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’"
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 Matthew 8:26
“And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.”
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George S. Patton
“I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?’”
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 Thucydides
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.”
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Rodan of Alexandria
“Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.”
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Bertrand Russell
“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.”
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Ambrose Redmoon
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
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1 John. 4:18
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
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Louis E. Boone
“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.”
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 Dale Carnegie
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
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H. P. Lovecraft
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
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David Seabury
“Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.”
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Elenor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself. "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
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John F. Milburn
“Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.”
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Orison Swett Marden
“Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.”
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 Frank Herbert
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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 Robertson Davies
“Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.”
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 Frantz Fanon
“Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.”
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Alexander Pope
“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”
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 Edward Gibbon
“Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Denis Diderot
“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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 Bishop Hall
“Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
“There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
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 Samuel Johnson
“The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.”
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Otto Schuwdrmer
“Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.”
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 Matthew 23:24
“Ye blind guides, which stain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”
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William Cowper
“Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind."
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 Louis Kronenberger
"In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice."
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Winston Churchill
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
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 Aldous Huxley
“A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.”
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Reinhold Niebuhr
“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.”
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 George Santayana
“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”
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 Finley Peter Dunne
“A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter.”
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Luke 6:41
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye”?
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Oscar Ostlund
“Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction.”
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Joseph Smith
“I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others' faults but never accept as justifiable their own.”
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Storm Jameson
"Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises."
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Thomas Jefferson
"In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal."
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Romans 14:7
“For none of us liveth to himself.”
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 Euripides
“Life has no blessing like a prudent friends.”
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
________________________________________                                                                                          George Washington
“Tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
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“He who would find a friend without faults will be without friends.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
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 Dave Tyson Gentry
“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
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 Marvin J. Ashton
"A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift."
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends
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A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
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 Arnold Glasow
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
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Ethel Barrymore
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
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Oscar Wilde
“True friends stab you in the front.”

“Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” 
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William James
“The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.”
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John 15:14
“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”
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"The secret to friendship is being a good listener."
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John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.”
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“Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead.”
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Walter Winchell
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
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“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.”
________________________________________                                                                                           Marlene Dietrick
"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
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“Everyone gets back with compound interest exactly what he sends.”
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 Mother Teresa
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
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Benjamin Franklin
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
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 Aristotle
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
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Abraham Lincoln
“I don't like that man.  I must get to know him better.”
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“Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship.”
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Earl Nightingale
“Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.”
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"A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets."
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"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
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"Every person is a new door to a different world."
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John Leonard
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
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 Elbert Hubard
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
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John Lennon
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
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Abraham Lincoln
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
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Rod McKuen
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
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Danish Proverb
"The road to a friend's house is never long."
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Aristotle
“What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
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 Mignon McLaughlin
“Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
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Francis M. Lyman
"Children…will never go astray while they are in good company."
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Artistotle
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
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Henry Ford
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
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Wilson Mizner
"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.”
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"Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you."
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 Len Wein
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
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"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
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“The reason a dog is mans best friend is because he wags his tail and not his tongue.“
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“To be an interesting conversationalist it is necessary to let others do 90% of the talking.”
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 Robert Brault
“Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.”
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Tehyi Hsieh
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
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Henry Brooks Adams
"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
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Norman Vincent Peale
“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
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Joseph Addison
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.”
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Rochefoucauld
“A true friend is the greatest of blessings…and that which we think least about acquiring.”
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Arnold H. Glasgow
“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.”
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“If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.”
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Elisabeth Foley
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
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Samuel Johnson
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.”
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Laurence J. Peter
“You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”
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Robert Brault
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
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“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
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Goethe
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
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 Frederick L. Collins
“There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."  
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“Let us be the first to give a friendly sign, to nod first, smile first, speak first, and…if such a thing is necessary - forgive first.”
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend."
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 Lee Iacocca
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
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Dale Carnegie
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
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Flavia Weedn
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.”
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“Dale Carnegie who wrote a book called "How to Win Friends and Influence People  no doubt knew we must first win their friendship before we can influence people.”
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Joseph Smith
“I know what I say; I understand my mission and business.  God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?
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 Ezra Taft Benson
“A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens and a friend reaches out.”
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Sydney Smith
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
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Reed Evans
“If you want to get a good look at yourselves, take a look at the friends you have. They usually will reflect your own values.”
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Francois Mocuriac
“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
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William James
“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.          _______________________________________                                                                                                 
“The average man is more interested in his own name than he is in all the other names on earth put together. It’s the sweetest most important sound in any language.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
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John Donne
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“ While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
"Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them."
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“While only the few can have riches and power, friendship and affection, in more or less degree, are open to all save the most unfortunate. Friendship is the poor man's riches; and it is a happier lot to be rich in human affection though poor in gold than to be king of half the world but without a friend.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.
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Joseph Smith
“I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.
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Robert D. Hales
"Do you know how to recognize a true friend? A real friend loves us and protects us. In recognizing a true friend we must look for two important elements in that friendship:"A true friend makes it easier for us to live the gospel by being around him. Similarly, a true friend does not make us choose between his way and the Lord's way. A true friend will help us return with honor."
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Spencer W. Kimball
"I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city…would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.”
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 Joseph Smith
"One token of friendship from any source whatever awakens and calls into action every sympathetic feeling; it brings up in an instant everything that is passed; it seizes the present with the avidity of lightning; it grasps after the future with the fierceness of a tiger; it moves the mind backward and forward, from one thing to another, until finally all enmity, malice and hatred, and past differences, misunderstandings and mismanagements are slain victorious at the feet of hope; and when the heart is sufficiently contrite, then the voice of inspiration steals along and whispers, [My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; and then if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high.
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 George Albert Smith
"Honor the name that you bear."
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 Aesop
“United we stand; divided we fall.”
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“Children are the bridge to heaven.”
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“In time of test, family is best.”
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Dan Wilcox
“I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.”
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 John Bowring
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
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Mark V. Olsen
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
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“Sports don’t build character, they reveal character”
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Helen Thompson
"He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it."
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Philo
“What God is to the world, parents are to their children.”
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 Edgar Friedenberg
“Those who love the young best stay young longer.”
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George Will
“We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.”
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 Robert G. Ingersoll
“One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.”
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Louise Hart
“Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.”
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Barbara Bush
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
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Don Herold
“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”
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 Anthony Brandt
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
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 Terri Guillemets
“And thank you for a house full of people I love.  Amen.”
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Desmond Tutu
“You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
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“An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.”
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Proverbs 5:18
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”
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Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. 
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Herbert Prochnov
“There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.”
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 Richard Armour
“Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.”
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Fran Lebowitz
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”
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 Robert Frost
“Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
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A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.
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Solomon
"A good name is better than precious ointment."
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Francois Villon
"We were two and had but one heart between us."
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“A family in harmony will prosper in everything.”
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Ida Carrie Seale
"Look with reverence on thine ancestors.  In due time, you too will be one."
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 Harold B. Lee
“The greatest work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.”
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Bruce R. McConkie
“The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.”
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 Joyce Brothers
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
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Ring Lardner
“The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.”
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Alex Haley
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
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 Johann Schiller
“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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 Christopher Lasch
“The family is a haven in a heartless world.”
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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy
“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
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Bob Talbert
“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
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John Paul II
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
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 Margaret Mead
“No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.”
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Mario Puzo
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”
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 Helen Keller
“A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.”
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George Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”
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 Margaret Laurence
“In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry.”
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Titus 2:4
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.”
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 1 Timothy 3:5
“For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?”
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Marquise de Sévigné
“We cannot destroy kindred:  our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.”
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 Lee Iacocca
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.”
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Nancy Mitford
“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.”
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 Sigourney
"It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity."
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Julie B. Beck
"Strong families are not an accident…They take thought and intention and preparation and skill."
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 O. A. Battista
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”
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Ephesians  4:32
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
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 Wayne Dyer
“As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.”
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Zohar
“Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation.”                                                                                           ________________________________________
Milton R. Saperstein
“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.”
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Brad Henry
“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
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Gail Lumet Buckley
“Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”
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Sidonie Gruenberg
“Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.”
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Auguste Napier
“In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.”
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Eva Burrows
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
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Elizabeth II
“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
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George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
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 Margaret Mead
“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do.  With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.” 
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Robert Brault
“The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.”
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“Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble it’s best to seek out a relative's open arms.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.”
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 Jane Howard
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
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Robert Brault
“In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.”
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 Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
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Victor L. Brown
“Satan’s ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war.”
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 Kendall Hailey
“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.”
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George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
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 Marge Kennedy
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
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Agatha Christie
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
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 Winston Churchill
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”
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William Saroyan
“Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them.”
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 Mahatma Gandhi
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
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Brian Tracy
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
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Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”                                                                              _______________________________________
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."
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Vince Lombardi
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
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John Milton
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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James G. Bilkey
"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."
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Thomas Henry Huxley
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not."
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
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Sterling W. Sill
“It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.”
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William James
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that you can change your circumstances by changing your attitudes of mind."
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.”
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W. K. Hope
“Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.”
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Harry S. Truman
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”
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Rob Gilbert
“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.”
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Epictetus
“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
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Harold Schoenberg
“Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.”
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“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.”
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 Seneca
“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.”
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 George Washington
“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
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Julie Andrews
“Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.”
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Harry S. Truman
"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first."
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 Brian Tracy
“The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.”
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 Critias of Athen
"If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside."
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 Brian Tracy
“Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.”
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 Clint Eastwood
"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."
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William Feather
"If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence."
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Jim Rohn
“Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.”
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
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Horace
"Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded."
________________________________________                                                                                              Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
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Brian Tracy
“The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence,mastery of your work.”
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Jim Rohn
“The most important question to ask on the job is not ‘what am I getting?’ The most important question to ask is ‘What am I becoming?’”
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Brian Tracy
“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem and personal satisfaction.”
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Carl Zuckmeyer
"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck."
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"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day."
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Rob Gilbert
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
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Brian Tracy
“People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it”.
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Johann Gottfried Von Herder
“Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion."
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Brian Tracy
“Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.”
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Jim Rohn
“Life is a unique combination of "want to"and"how to"and we need to give equal attention to both.”
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Josiah Quincy
"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first."
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Wayne W. Dyer
"You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
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Peter F. Drucker
"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter."
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Winston Churchill
“Never give in – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
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Norman Cousins
"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will."
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 Richard Cecil
"Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion."
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"It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
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Brian Tracy
"Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results."
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 Zig Ziglar
“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
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Brian Tracy
“Develop your willpower so that you can make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
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Brian Tracy
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success.”
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Hugh B. Brown
"Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be."
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Beverly Claridge
"Inspiration is a byproduct of discipline... simply getting up every day and planning, plotting, sketching, setting up or actually applying paint to a painting."
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George Washington
“Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.”
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Jim Rohn
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
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Wilma Rudolph
“It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.”
________________________________________                                                                                                George Washington
“Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.”
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“Now brethren, can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.”
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Buddha
"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
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 Tyron Edwards
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
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George Washington
"Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another."
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Zig Ziglar
“Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!”
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Richard G. Scott
"Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life."
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Harry Browne
“Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.”
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“A person in good health usually has great authority over his arms, legs, fingers etc. He may get the same kind of authority over the mind, the tongue, the ambition with the Lords help.”
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William Somerset Maugham
"I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked…It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed."
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"No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character."
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E.M. Gray
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
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Jim Rohn,
“We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You’ve got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Be strong—be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline.”
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Bob Richards
“One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.”
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Maria Montessori
"Discipline must come through liberty…We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."
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“You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.”
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“The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa’s time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep—they called it work.”
________________________________________                                                                                                Harry Emerson Fosdick
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
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H. Ross Perot
"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment."
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Lee Iacocca
"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.”
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Robert Bridges
“That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.”
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John F. MacArthur Jr.
"Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead."
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Thomas S. Monson
“The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. Should temporary setbacks afflict us, a very significant part of our struggle for self-discipline is the determination and the courage to try again.”
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J.B. Charles
"Hands untrained in the use of tools destroy what they want to build. It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired, whether it's tearing down an old house or building a new one. Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes. But it must be used by a trained mind, a mind capable of disciplined thinking."
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Robert Blair
"That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune."
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Neal A. Maxwell
"Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality."
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Brutus Hamilton
"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."
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Bertrand Russell
"Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority."
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Joe J. Christensen
“In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of the story of the salesman who came to a house one hot summer day. Through the screen door he could see a young boy practicing his scales on the piano. His baseball glove and hat were by the side of the piano bench. He said, “Say, boy, is your mother home?” To which the boy replied, “What do you think?” Thank heavens for conscientious parents!”
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 Stephen R. Covey
“I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.”
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 James Allen
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life."
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Eric Hoffer
“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
________________________________________                                                                                        Confucius
“Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness”
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 Judith S. Marin
“Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness”
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Donna A. Favors
“Why give in to rudeness, when you can fight back with kindness.”
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 Dave Barry
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person”
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 Oscar Wilde
“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude”
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Alexander Chase
“A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed”
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 Lemony Snicket
"It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring."
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Bryant H. McGill
“A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.”
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 John Locke
“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”
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“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“…Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.”
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Margaret Cavendish
“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy."
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Sir Richard Steele
“Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.”
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Ed Hayes
"Our lives are fed by kind words of gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like `excuse me,' and other such simple courtesies. . . . Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life." Did you hear that phrase? "the sacrament of consideration."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving in and out of the traffic stream. The words were these: “Honk if you love Jesus.” No one honked. Perhaps each was disturbed by the thoughtless and rude actions of the offending driver. Then, again, would honking be an appropriate manner in which to show one’s love for the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Redeemer of all mankind? Such was not the pattern provided by Jesus of Nazareth.
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Donald Rumsfeld
“Remember where you came from.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
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Walter Payton
“Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.”
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Exodus 20:8
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
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 David Mamet
“Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.”
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Dean Acheson
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”
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 Gregory Peck
“Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?”
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Brigham Young
“Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.”
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 Benjamin Franklin
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
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 Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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Confucius
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
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 Confucius
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
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Joel Osteen
“A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.”
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 Napoleon Hill
“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself”
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 George Santayana
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”
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 Alexander the Great
“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Remember is the most important word in the English language.”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.”
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”
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Margaret Mead
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
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“Do you feel unpopular sometimes? Remember Noah and get back and build your ark.”
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 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
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Alan Alda
“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”
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 John C. Maxwell
“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
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 Dale Carnegie
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
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 Maya Angelou
“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”
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Mohandas Gandhi
“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”
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 Ronald Reagan
“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.”
________________________________________                                                                                        Benjamin Franklin
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
________________________________________                                                                                                Dale Carnegie
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
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Henry Ford
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
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 Epictetus
“If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.”
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Harriet Tubman
“Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
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 Andy Rooney
“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”
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Elie Wiesel
“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.”
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 Richard M. Nixon
“Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
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1 Chronicles 16:12
“Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.”
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Luke 17:32-33
“Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”
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Herbert Spencer
“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.”
________________________________________                                                                                                 Louis Nizer
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”
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Scott Adams
“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
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 Ezekiel 18:22
“All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.”
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Elie Wiesel
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”
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 Dale Carnegie
“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
________________________________________                                                                                           Henry Ward Beecher
“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”
________________________________________                                                                                                 Audrey Hepburn
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”
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 Charles Spurgeon
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
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Mary Kay Ash
“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
________________________________________                                                                                     Akhenaton
“Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.”
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Richard B. Wirthlin
“Yes, who we are is the sum of all the choices we make. We should always remember that our choices do not begin with the act, but in the mind with the idea.”
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 Epictetus
“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.”
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 Maxwell Maltz
“Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.”
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Dale Carnegie
“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?”
________________________________________                                                                                      Mahatma Gandhi
“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”
________________________________________                                                                                                  John Heywood
“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
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 Mary Ellen Smoot
“A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from—each day. It reads, “No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment.”
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Isaiah 49:14-16
“But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.                                                      ________________________________________
Charlotte Bronte                                                                                                                                                      “Remorse is the poison of life.”
________________________________________                                                                                      Billy Wilder
“Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.”
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Jonathan Larson
“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
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 Mercedes Lackey
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
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Grenville Kleiser
“A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.”
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 Rafael Sabatini
“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.”
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Lawrence J Peter
“Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
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 Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
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Lucille Ball
“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.”
________________________________________                                                                                                     Nathan Hale
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
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Arthur Miller
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
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 John Greenleaf Whittier
“Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.”
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 “Regret is insight that comes a day too late”
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Bob Dylan
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
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 John Barrymore
“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.”
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David Grayson
“Looking back, I have this to regret...that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”
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 Charles Dickens
“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”
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Harriet Doerr
“You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.”
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 Chinese Proverb
“To regret the past is to forfeit the future.”
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D. H. Lawrence
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
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 Victoria Holt
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
________________________________________                                                                                    “Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.”
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Lucy Larcom
“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”
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 Quevedo
“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
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 Jane Adams
“Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.”
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Fulton Oursler
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
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 Chinese Proverb
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
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Edgar Watson Howe
“When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.”
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 Napoleon Bonaparte
“The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.”
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Dante Alighieri
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.”
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 Cameron Diaz
“Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.”
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Katherine Mansfield
"Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in."
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“Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”
________________________________________                                                                                                          J P Getty
“I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.”
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 Buddha
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
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Alexander Graham Bell
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
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 Jim Rohn
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
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Sydney J. Harris
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
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 Stefan Zweig
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”
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Mary McCarthy
“Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.”
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 Henry Louis Menchen
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
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“If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, and with worries over the problems of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful”
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 Katharine Hepburn
“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”
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 Germaine Greer
“The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.”
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Mary Matalin
“You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.”
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 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.:
"Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did."
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John Gray
“It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret.”
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 Norman Macdonald
“The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.”
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“Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - "If I had my life to live over again, I'd do it all the same”
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 Arthur Brisbane
“Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.”
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Ida Scott Taylor
“Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.”
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 Brittany Renée
“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.”
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William O’Rourke
“Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.”
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 Rebecca Beard
“We should have no regrets…The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”
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Aldous Huxley
“If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
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 Marcel Proust  
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Barbara Sher
“People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Jonathan Carroll
“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart”
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“Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Louisa May Alcott
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
________________________________________                                                                                                 Max W. Swenson
“The object of the study was to assess the feelings of those who were about to die. Almost universally the patients agreed that the inevitability of death was not the issue. The real issue was how to live a full life. They all seemed to agree that the problem of dying is the regret of not having lived.”
________________________________________                                                                                           Elearnor Roosevelt
“All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.”
________________________________________                                                                                         Gordon B. Hinckley:
“We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.”
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Brent A. Barlow
“Enjoy wholesome recreation to reduce stress.”
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Vanessa Alvino
“Recreation involves the whole being.”
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“A little craziness once in a while perpetuates sanity.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.”
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 Ana Osborne
“Leisure is an essential part of life so remember to treat yourself right!"
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Nancy M. Morrow
"Quality of Life," without wholesome recreation....how is this possible?”
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 Soren Kierkegaard
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it.”
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Plato
"You can learn more about a man in an hour of play than in a lifetime of conversation."
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 Phaedrus
"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking."
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N. Eldon Tanner
“To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities.”
________________________________________                                                                          Brigham Young
"Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life."
________________________________________                                                                                         Saavedra
"The bow cannot possibly always stand bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
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 Brigham Young
"The people must have amusement as well as religion…every pure enjoyment is from heaven.”
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Miguel De Cervantes
“The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.”
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 B. C. Forbes
“Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.”
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Patricia Miller
"We do better together, not alone. We need to play together to feel alive. We need to share together to feel whole. At any age, we need to feel, recreate, breathe!"
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 C. Neil Strait
“Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
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 Nancy M. Morrow
“Recreation offers the discovery of self satisfying pleasures ....a time for social expression and much needed family cohesion.”
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John Wanamaker
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
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Brigham Young
"Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation."
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Samuel Prime
"Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer."
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Marion D. Hanks
"People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high."
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“Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.”
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"Recreation's purpose is not to kill time, but to make life, not to keep a person occupied, but to keep them refreshed; no to offer an escape from life, but to provide a discovery of life."
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Brigham Young
“Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.”
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 Harvey Taylor
"Activities are necessary for the fuller development of children and adults. They help to prevent emotional starvation.  If you analyze the gangster movement, you would find right at the back of it is emotional starvation."
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D. Todd Christofferson
Having spoken in praise of labor, I must also add a kind word for leisure. Just as honest toil gives rest its sweetness, wholesome recreation is the friend and steadying companion of work.
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Washington Gladden
"Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use…”
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J. Richard Clarke
“How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life.”
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James A. Michener
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.”
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Gary K. Palmer
“Play brings families together. It is a subtle tool for interaction and talk. It builds confidence because you can modify the rules to bring about success or any outcome you desire. Our inhibitions are minimized, and our real personalities emerge. Through play we develop relationships naturally. We tend to like people we have fun with. Play allows us to use our minds and break out of familiar molds. It allows us to explore more.”
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David A. Bednar
"It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together."
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 George Bernard Shaw
“Better never than late.”
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John M. Mason
“Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.”
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 Louis XVIII
“Punctuality is the politeness of kings.”
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“Punctuality is the soul of business.”
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E. V. Verrall
“I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.”
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Janise Wooten
“When I finally pass away I don't want to be labeled "the late, late Janise”
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 French Proverb
“The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.”
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William Shakespeare
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
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 David O. McKay
"The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early"
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John A. Widtsoe
“Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.”
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“Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be”
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Richard Cecil
“Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality”
________________________________________                                                                                                     Gearald Barzan
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone.”
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Franklin P. Jones
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.”
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 Wes Fessler
“It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”
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 Boyd K. Packer
“Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.”
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.”
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 Lord Nelson
“I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.”
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Don Marquis
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
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 Samuel Beckett
“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?”
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“If you are 15 minutes early you are on time. If you are on time you are late and if your late you didn’t want to be there.”
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 Sterling W. Sill
“Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.”
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Richard Cecil
“If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.”
________________________________________                                                                                         Grenville Kleiser
“As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you”
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Nathaniel Emmons
“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”
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Horace Mann
“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.”
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John F. Boyes
"Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character."
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Sterling W. Sill
“Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination…”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.”
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Charles Dickens
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
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Wilbur Fisk
“I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life.”
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Charles Fontaine
“When a secretary of Washington, excusing himself for being late, said that his watch was too slow, the reply of Washington was, ‘You must get a new watch, or I must get a new secretary.’”
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William Mathews
“Nothing inspires confidence in a business man sooner than punctuality, nor is there any habit which sooner saps his reputation than that of being always behind time.”
________________________________________                                                                                             William Hazlitt
“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
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Punctuality, my children," said the old man, "is the thief of time. I have been a victim to the pernicious vice of punctuality all my life. I must have wasted years by being up to time and having to wait for people."
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Charles Simmons
“Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.”
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 Sterling W. Sill
"The Lord is the greatest of all believers in punctuality. In fact he is the author of punctuality. He has a billion planets whirling through space in different directions and at different speeds, but each one is exactly on time. If one planet were a half minute late there might be very serious consequences. But God, who is the author of order, is in the habit of having his creations in exactly the right places at exactly the right time. Then how do you think he must feel when his greatest masterpiece, created in his own image, shows a high degree of irresponsibility and undependability in keeping his most simple appointments?” _______________________________________                                                                                                     Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Unless we progress, we regress.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
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Edward Gibbon
“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”
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 Frank Tyger
“Progress is not created by contented people.”
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Indira Gandhi
"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.”
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Don Marquis
“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”
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 Confucius
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
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Barry Diller
"Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go."
________________________________________                                                                                            Plato
“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
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“When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.”
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“Today's progress was yesterday's plan.”
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Chinese Proverb
“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The never-ending task of self improvement.”
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Oliver Cromwell
“He who stops being better stops being good.”
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 Isaac Asimov
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.”
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 Lou Holtz
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”
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Indira Gandhi
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
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 Kahlil Gibran
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
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Marie Curie
“I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.”
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 Anthony D'Angelo
“Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.”
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 Robert M. Pirsig
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
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Anthony Robbins
“Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement.”
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 Jim Rohn
“What you become directly influences what you get.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
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“Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.”
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Sean Gregory Derrick
“No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something.”
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 Les Brown
“Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.”
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“The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.”
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 Eden Phillpotts
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.”
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“Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.”
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 William Ellery Channing
“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.”
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C.R. Lawton
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.”
_______________________________________                                                                                               Lee Iacocca
“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”
________________________________________                                                                                      Marion G. Romney
"While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.”
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Louis Kronenberger
“The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.”
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 Samuel Butler
“All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
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Paul J. Meyer
"Do a little more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in"
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 Abraham Maslow
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
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Henry Ford
“There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.”
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 George Bernard Shaw
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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Clare Booth Luce
"In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed."
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 Ann McGee Cooper
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. –
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Margaret Fuller
"Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get it perfect."
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Thomas A. Edison
“Restlessness is discontent--and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
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Calvin Coolidge
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
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“The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.”
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James Allen
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
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 Christian Nevell Bovee
“The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.”
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 Andrew Carnegie
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.”
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Shirley Chisholm
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
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James Freeman Clarke
“We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.”                   _______________________________________
Tryon Edwards
“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.”
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 Thomas J. Watson
“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”
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Greg Werner
“Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.”
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 Abraham Lincoln
“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”
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Harold Mayfield
“Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.”
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Richard A. Nelson
“When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.”
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“Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.”
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.”
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Henri Frederic Amiel
“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”
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 Gilbert Arland
“When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.”
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Ella Wilcox
“Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.”
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Nadine Gordimer
“Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.”
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Henry J. Kaiser
“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”
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 Joan Borysenko
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."
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Barbara Hall
"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
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Aldous Huxley
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner.”
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Aristotle
“It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.”
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Pablo Picasso
“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”
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Charles Haanel
"The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do."
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John A. Widtsoe
“A beginning must be made somewhere and corner by corner, department by department, space by space, all will be known and conquered. In the end, all must be explored, and whether one begins in the east or the west cannot matter much. The big concern is the extent to which a man offers himself, mind and body, to his worthwhile work. Upon that will growth depend."
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Sir Winston Churchill
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
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 Edward W. Smith
"When something aggravating, such as a siren, car alarm, etc, bothers you, that is a good time to check to see if what you were doing at that moment, was something that will take you away from your aggravations and towards your goals. So the next time something aggravates you, use that as a check to see if your actions are going in the right direction, or not. In that way, life's aggravations can become good reminders to stay on the course towards a better life."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.”
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Socrates
“Talk in order that I may see you.”
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Shakespeare
“Mend your speech a little, lest it may mar your fortunes.”
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 2 Peter 2:7
“Vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly"
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.”
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Ted E. Brewerton
“We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.”
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Psalms 34:13
“Keep thy tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.”
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Boyd K. Packer
"However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong"
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“But I saw unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne.”
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Bob Hope
"With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films."
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Antoine R. Ivins
"If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life."
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William Cowper
“It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.”
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Dallin H. Oaks
“The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity --- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.”
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Matthew 12:37
“For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
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 Matthew 15:11
“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth.”
________________________________________                                                                                            Jeremiah 23:10
“For because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.”
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Exodus 20:7
“Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."
________________________________________                                                                                                Jeremy Taylor
“Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.”
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Ephesians 4: 29
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
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 James 5:12
“But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath…”
________________________________________                                                                                                               Colossians 3:8
“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”
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 Bob Greene
“Obscenity, the open use of which used to be a mark of lower social strata, has somehow become acceptable in everyday conversation for everyday people.
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Ted E. Brewerton
“Which of the Lord’s Ten Commandments is probably broken the most frequently? I believe it would be taking the name of God in vain.”
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1 Timothy 4:12
“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
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James 3:10
“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.
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Leviticus 19:12
“And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.”
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Proverbs 29:34
“Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not”
________________________________________                                                                                           Charles Didier
“Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are…”
________________________________________                                                                                                      2 Timothy 2:16
"But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.  And their word will eat as doth a canker..."
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John S. Choldston
“Unfortunately, it seems that the more “civilized” we become, the more inundated by filthy language and profanity we are.”
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George Washington
"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."
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Matthew 12:36
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion—that…there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.”
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Joseph Fielding Smith
“Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps…Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.”
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Leviticus 24:16
“And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.”
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Hodding Carter
“If it was once rare to hear sailors’ language in mixed company, it is now difficult to avoid it. For whatever reason, the enduring contribution to America left by the 1960s has been the debasement of public discourse and behavior.”
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George Q. Cannon
“Do angels take the Lord’s name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. … How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?”   __________________________________                                                                                                      David O. McKay
“No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.”
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John S. Tanner
“Modern speech, so frequently debased by profanity and obscenity, says much about the character of our society. Our language environment has been blighted by obscenity and profanity just as real and pernicious as the pollution that fouls our land, water, and air.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others."
________________________________________                                                                                        Hodding Carter
“And so we are assaulted on all sides by the ethos of the slob, with few having the courage or desire to confront it head on…I rarely challenge the foul mouth who embarrasses my mother in a public place…I, like most of you, simply wince and turn away.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.
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Ezra Taft Benson
“One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity --- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name of Deity is enjoined in holy writ. Jesus made this clear when teaching His disciples to pray. He said, addressing the Father, "Hallowed be thy name: (see Matthew 6:9). Blaspheming the name of God separates man from his Creator.”
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Bob Greene
“Bathroom and sexual obscenities can now be heard in certain popular songs on the radio, and even some magazines and newspapers have begun to print language that would have been unthinkable five years ago. This practice is usually defended under the name of ‘freedom.’ But whose freedom is it? If the language of ugliness becomes so much a part of our society that it is impossible to escape no matter where one turns, then who is free and who isn’t?”
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George Washington
“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in our American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impropriety and folly.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.”
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 Mae West
"He who hesitates is last."
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"If and When were planted, and Nothing grew."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"How soon ‘not now’ become ‘never’.”
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 Napoleon Hill
"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right".
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"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
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Dawson Trotman
"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
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Will Rogers
"Even if you’re on the right track-you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
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Christopher Parker
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot fun until you get the bill."
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Sally Berger
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
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"When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller."
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"Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan."
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 Randal Wright
“Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?”
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William Arthur Ward
"Begin while other are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
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Dale Carnegie
"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
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 William James
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice."
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Matthew Burton
"Procrastination is the seed of self destruction."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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Syrus
"The next day is never so good as the day before."
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C. Northcote Parkinson
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
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Fred Brooks
"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."
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 Edward Young
"Time wasted is existence; used is life."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Procrastination—thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!”
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Proverbs 19:15
“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Psalms 119:60
“I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.”
________________________________________                                                                                                William James
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”  
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 Don Marquis
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
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Charles Kingsley
“Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.”  
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 Vincent T. Foss
“One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.”  
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Benjamin Franklin
“You may delay, but time will not.”  
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“Someday is not a day of the week.”
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Eva Young
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
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 C. Northcote Parkinson
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
________________________________________                                                                                                           Victor Kiam
“Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.”
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 Olin Miller
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
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Scottish Proverb
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
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Gerald Vaughan
“Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.”
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Spanish Proverb
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”
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Edward Young
“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.”
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Jimmy Lyons
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.”
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Karen Lamb
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
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H.G. Bohn
“One of these days is none of these days.” 
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Vincent T. Foss
"One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow."
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Benjamin Franklin
"You may delay, but time will not."
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Donald Gardner
"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!"
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 Jerry West
"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
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Jean de La Bruyère
"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity."
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Rita Emmett
"The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
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Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
“There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.”
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Earl of Chesterfield
“It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”
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 George Claude Lorimer
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard.  Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
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“Why is it that we think of doing nothing as the good life when in reality it doesn’t get any worse than that.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Spencer W. Kimball
“One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?”
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Neal A Maxwell
"Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal."
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Reed Smoot
"There is nothing that steals man's time, his talents, his vigor, his energy…in greater degree than the crime of procrastination."
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“Procrastination is a silly thing, it only makes me sorrow; but I can change at any time—I think I will tomorrow!”
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Irene Kassorla
"Don't wait for your ‘ship to come in,’ and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small."
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David Allen
"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
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Omar Bradley
“We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."
________________________________________                                                                                Matthew 4: 19-20
“And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.”
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Anne Frank
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
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Pearl S. Buck
"I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."
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Robert Benchley
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”  
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Mignon McLaughlin
"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all."
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Charles Buxton
"Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it."
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Napoleon Hill
"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."
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Wayne Dyer
"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
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Horace
"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
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Catherine Pulsifer
"Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation."
________________________________________                                                                                         Mignon McLaughlin
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
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Theodore Roosevelt
"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
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Byron Pulsifer
“Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all."
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Robert Anthony
"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reason to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count."
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Sterling W. Sill
“Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.”
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Mark 13:35-36
“Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.”
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Benjamin Franklin
"Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
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William A. Alcott
"Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy."
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Ida Scott Taylor
"Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time."
________________________________________                                                                                          William Nevins
"Procrastination has been called a thief,--the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul."
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Og Mandino
" To be always intending to make a new and better life but never find time to set about it is as…to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to next until you’re dead."
________________________________________                                                                                                 Lord Chesterfield
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
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Spencer W. Kimball
“In my office…I have a little sign and it says, ‘Do it!’ I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done.”
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"Don’t procrastination. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply give you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence. Do it now, brother, do it now."
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Norman Vincent Peale
"The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too."
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Dale Carnegie
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."
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 Lee Iacocca
"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."
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Arnold Bennett
“We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.”
________________________________________                                                                                                           Russell M. Nelson
“Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others—time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.”
________________________________________                                                                                               Denis Waitley
"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy."
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Richard O'Conner
"Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we'd had more time. If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower."
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Joshua 24:15
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“Two centuries ago Edward Young said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes. Knowing this, each of us jars himself back to reality with the sure knowledge that, "This is my day of opportunity. I will not waste it."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn—a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.”
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William H. Bennett
“Inertia can work against us or for us depending on our starting point and our attitude. It works against us if we are at rest and are content to remain that way rather than getting into action. Procrastination, which is the practice of putting off, intentionally and habitually, those things that should be done in a timely manner, not only wastes time; but it leaves our lives empty, unfulfilled, and unhappy. Inertia works for us if we are in action and are moving forward and upward in meaningful ways toward all-important goals based on a clear understanding of who we are, where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going.” ________________________________________
Mahatma Gandhi
"Action expresses priorities."
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Scottish Proverb
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
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 Scott Caan
“Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.”
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Alan Lakein
“In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.”
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 David O. MaKay
“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
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Timothy Ferris
“Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”
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 Japanese Proverb
“Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.”
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Jonathan Kozol
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
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 George S. Patton, Jr.
“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Robert Frost
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
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 Keri Russell
“Sometimes it`s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”
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Simon Fulleringer
“When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.”
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 Shirley Conran
“First things first, second things never.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.”
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 Albert Einstein
“What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.”
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Lucius Columell
“The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Goethe
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” 
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 Samuel Butler
“All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” ________________________________________
Harry Lloyd
"Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be."
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Stephen R. Covey
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
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Mark 8:36
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
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John Armstrong
“You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.”
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Doris Lessing
“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important”
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Matthew 6:33
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”
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Og Mandino
“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.”
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Jim Rohn
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'”
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 Jim Rohn
“Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.”
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H. L. Hunt
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.”
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M. Russell Ballard
“All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.”
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Russell M. Nelson
“When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from “going overboard.”
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Zig Ziglar
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.”
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Mary O'Connor
“It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.”
________________________________________                                                                                       Timothy Ferriss
“Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Our great business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
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 Edward Humphrey
“True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.”
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Freya Stark
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.”
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Harvey Mackay
“Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.”
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 Harold B. Lee
“The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.”
________________________________________                                                                                                  Larry Winget
“Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, ‘I wish I had,’ or ‘I’m glad I did.’”
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Lou Holtz
“If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.”
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Eric Zorn
“Don’t waste your breath proclaiming what’s really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”
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Margaretta Rockefeller
“Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matter.  Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level.  There's no time for pettiness.”
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Lin Yu Tang
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Brian Tracy
“No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.”
________________________________________                                                                                                               Lee Iacocca
“No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
________________________________________                                                                                                Brian Tracy
“You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.”
________________________________________                                                                                                Saint Teresa
“Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life...If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.”
________________________________________                                                                                                Neal A. Maxwell
“Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.”
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Denis Waitley
“Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.”
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Robert Service
“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
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Timothy Ferriss
“Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.”
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George W. Bush
“I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Charles Hummel
“We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
________________________________________                                                                                            Stephen R. Covey
“It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.”
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Timothy Ferriss
“Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most people to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.”
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“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good’”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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 Stephen R. Covey
“Keep in mind that you are always saying “no” to something. If it isn’t to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.”
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William Gladstone
“To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.”
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N. Eldon Tanner
“I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.”
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Denis Waitley
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.”
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Earl Nightingale
“Things that are given to us for nothing we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value. The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free. Our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country - all these priceless possessions are free. But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if a home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing can never be replaced.”
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Miguel De Cervantes
“To be prepared is half the victory.”
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“When it is time for action the time for preparation is past.”
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A. Theodore Tuttle
“It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!”
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Abraham Lincoln
“I will prepare, and perhaps my chance will come”
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Henry Ford
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
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Thane Yost
“The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.”
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John F. Kennedy
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
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 Jackie Joyner Kersee
“It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
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Abraham Lincoln
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
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Benjamin Franklin
“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
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Henry Hartman
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
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 Seneca
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
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H. Jackson Brown
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today”
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  Joyce Brothers
“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. “
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Joyce Brothers
“No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.”
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Jean Baptiste Suard
"We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess."
________________________________________                                                                                       Mignon McLaughlin
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. -
________________________________________                                                                                   Raymond Hull
“All marriages are happy.  It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Adela Rogers St. Johns
“There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.”
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Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...”
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Diane Sollee
“To get divorced because love has died, is like selling your car because it's run out of gas.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.”
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Randal Wright
“More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.”
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William Phelps
“The highest happiness on earth is in marriage.  Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.”
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Laurence Sterne
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different"
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David O. McKay
"In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life's journey"
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David O. McKay
“The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth.  Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.”
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 Frank Pittman
“The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that mariage must be total, it must be permanent and it must be equal.”
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Leo Tolstoy
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
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 Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
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Linda Miles
“All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to 'and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy.”
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Ogden Nash
“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”
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George I. Cannon
“Remember constant courtship. The most important relationship upon this earth for you is between you and your sweetheart. Work at it, sacrifice for it, enjoy it.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Marion D. Hanks
“Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage”
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"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
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Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
________________________________________                                                                                         Albert Einstein
"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. "Women marry men with the hope they will change. "Invaribly they are both disappointed."
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“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
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Genesis 2:24
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
“What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.”
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Simone Signoret
“Chains do not hold a marriage together.  It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”
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Ephesians 5:31
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”
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Barnett R. Brickner
“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”
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 Doug Larson
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
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Robert Anderson
“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce.  The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.”
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Goethe
“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation.  It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.” 
________________________________________                                                                                            James C. Dobson
“Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.” 
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Oscar Wilde
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”  
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George Levinger
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”  
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Bettina Arndt
“Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.”
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Harlan Miller
“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”
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Joseph Addison
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.”
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Laurence Sterne
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.”
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 Norman Wright and Gary Oliver
“In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“I have learned that the real essence of happiness in marriage lies not so much in romance as in an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.”
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1 Corinthians 7:2-3
“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence.”
________________________________________                                                                                             Mark Twain
“Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths.  No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”
________________________________________                                                                                                     N. Eldon Tanner
“...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other --three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.”
________________________________________                                                                                                     James E. Faust
“Those who enter into marriage should be fully prepared to establish their marriage as the first priority in their lives…True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer.  "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy.”
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1 Corinthians 11:11-12
“Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Choose a companion you can always honor, you can always respect, one who will complement you in your own life, one to whom you can give your entire heart, your entire love, your entire allegiance, your entire loyalty.”
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Robert Sexton
“In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare.  Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.”  
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Sydney J. Harris
“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.”
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John Gray
“Men mistakenly expect women to think, communicate, and react the way men do.  We have forgotten that men and women are supposed to be different.  As a result our relationships are filled with unnecessary friction and conflict.”
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 Matthew 19:5-6
“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
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Deuteronomy 24:5
“When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.”
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James E. Faust
“A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing 1 can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.”
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Jeffrey R. Holland
“No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone.  But where do we think good marriages come from?  They don’t spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education…Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?”
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David O. McKay
"My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart... I submit that as a true guide.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects…It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations"
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Thomas A. Kempis
“Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.”
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Abraham Stone
“Mature love differs from childish love in that it desires not merely the satisfaction of self, of one's own needs, but even more the satisfactions of the mate. A couple maturely in love, genuinely care for one another. They want to establish a kinship of body and feeling. They do not romantically endow each other with illusionary qualities, but see and accept in one another both virtues and faults.”
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Evelyn Duvall and Reuben Hill
“The kind of marriage you make depends upon the kind of person you are. If you are a happy, well-adjusted person, the chances are your marriage will be a happy one. If you have made adjustments so far with more satisfaction than distress, you are likely to make your marriage and family adjustments satisfactorily. If you are discontented and bitter about your lot in life, you will have to change before you can expect to live happily ever after.”
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Charles R. Swindoll
“Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.”
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M.Russell Ballard:
“When a couple comes to me for counsel relative to various struggles in their marriage, one of the first questions I ask them is, ‘Do you kneel together at the end of the day and hold hands and say your prayers?’ Interestingly, not once---not once---has the answer to that question been positive. Then I suggest, ‘Will you please go home and do that for the next thirty days?  Then you can return and we will talk again.’ Almost always the couples come back and, with tears in their eyes, share with me the sweet feelings that have returned to their marriage and how they think, at last, that they are going to make it.”
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 Og Mandino
“Do all things with love.”
_______________________________________                                                                                   Soren Kierkegaard
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
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“Hugs are the universal medicine.”
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 Mahatma Gandhi
“Hatred can be overcome only by love.”
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Mary Baker Eddy
“Jealousy is the grave of affection”
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
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“A hug is worth a thousand words.”
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“A hug is a handshake from the heart.” 
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Karen Sunde
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”
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 1 John 4:19
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
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“A hug is the shortest distance between friends.”
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Jean Paul F. Richter
“Paradise is always where love dwells.”
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 George Bernard Shaw
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
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1 Peter 1:22
“See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.”
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“Time + Touch + Talk + Teach = Love”
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Leo Buscaglia
“Everybody needs a hug.  It changes your metabolism.”  
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”
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“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
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 Eva Burrows
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”
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Felix Adler
“The family is the school of duties - founded on love.”
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 Anthony Brandt
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
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“You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.”
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 Buddha
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
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Barbara Bush
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
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 George Sand
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
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“Love is just a word until someone you meet gives it a proper meaning.”
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Jean Anouilh
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
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 Wills Cather
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
________________________________________                                                                                                   John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.”
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“People don't care what you do for them but how you make feel. “
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Roy Croft
“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
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 Frank A. Clark
“A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.”
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Bil Keane
“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.”
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 Elbert Hubbard
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.”
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 Zig Ziglar
“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”
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C.T. Davis
“One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.”
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"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."
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Benjamin Franklin
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
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Houssaye
"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
________________________________________                                                                                                     St. Augustine
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
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Lawrence Durrell
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
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 Thoreau
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
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Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
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 Oscar Hammerstein II
“Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?”
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Audrey Hepburn
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
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 George Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”
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Joyce Brothers
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
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 Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
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Elizabeth Browning
“Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
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 Michael Leunig
“Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that.”
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Theodore Hesburgh
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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 John 13:35
“By this all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
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Harold Voth
"Hugging can lift depression. It breathes fresh life into a tired body and makes you feel younger and more vibrant.
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 Robert Heinlein
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”  
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John 13:34
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
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 Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
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Sam Keen
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
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 Galatians 5:14
“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
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Mother Teresa
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
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C.S. Lewis
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
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Nan Fairbrother
“The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.”
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John 15:10
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
________________________________________                                                                                               George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
________________________________________                                                                                     Saint-Exupery
""Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
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"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
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1 Thessalonians 4:9
“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…but how much love we put in that action.”
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“No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office”
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Kendall Hailey
“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you”
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 Orlando A. Battista
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.”
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M. Grundler
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”
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Joseph Smith
“It is a time-honored adage that love begats love...cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold.”
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David B. Haight
“Someone has written, “Love is a verb.” It requires doing—not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?”
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William Arthur Ward
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
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Jim Rohn
“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”
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 Rosaleen Dickson
“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
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T.S. Eliot
“There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”
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John Lubbock
“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Cary Grant
“It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection.”
________________________________________                                                                                    William Saroyan
“Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.”
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“One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you meet someone who alters your conception of love, and you never know how you loved anything before because this kind of love is”
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H. Burke Peterson
“Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self-confidence that comes from truly being loved. Prisons and other institutions, even some of our own homes, are filled with those who have been starved for affection.”
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Walter Anderson
“If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person.  And mean it.  You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so.  It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind…cast-off and everyday clothing.”
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Giuseppe Mazzini
“The family is the country of the heart. There is an angel in the family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness”
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Russell M. Nelson
“Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, “I love you, sweetheart.” She responded rather blandly: “I know.” I asked, “How do you know that I love you?” Because! You’re my grandfather!”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.”
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James E. Faust
“Some parents have difficulty expressing their love physically or vocally. I do not ever recall my own father using the words, “Son, I love you,” but he showed it in a thousand ways which were more eloquent than words. He rarely missed a practice, a game, a race, or any activity in which his sons participated.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, ‘Mother, I truly love you’? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, ‘I love you.’”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“My plea—and I wish I were more eloquent in voicing it—is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight. They need happiness. They need love and nurture. They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.”
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James E. Faust
“LeGrand Richards shared with us the tender relationship he had with his father. Said he, ‘I walked into my father’s apartment when he was just about ninety,…and as I opened the door, he stood up and walked toward me and took me in his arms and hugged me and kissed me. He always did that…Taking me in his arms and calling me by my kid name, he said, ‘Grandy, my boy, I love you.’”
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Elizabeth R. McAnarney
“Adolescents need touch to facilitate communication and convey caring. When children are no longer held and comforted by their parents, they may turn to their peers instead. There is almost no data on this, but I wonder if the increase in very young teenage pregnancy comes form the need to be held. They may be using sex for a nonsexual purpose.”
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Joe J. Christensen
“Once when my father-in-law was leaving the house after lunch to return to the field to work, my mother-in-law said, ‘Albert, you get right back in here and tell me you love me.’ He grinned and jokingly said, ‘Elsie, when we were married, I told you I loved you, and if that ever changes, I’ll let you know.’ It’s hard to overuse the expression, ‘I love you.’ Use it daily.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one’s thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Listening is one of the forms of love.”
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“Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps.”
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Robert Schuller
“Big egos have little ears.”
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 Lao Tzu
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
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"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."
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 Richard Moss
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”
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Paul Tillich
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
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“Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.”
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M. Scott Peck
"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."
________________________________________                                                                                             Peter F. Drucher
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
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“My wife says I never listen to her.  At least I think that's what she said.” 
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 Thich Nhat Hanh
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.”  
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Eli Khamarov
“I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said.” 
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Woodrow Wilson
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
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Robert Greenleaf
“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.”
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 Joyce Brothers
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.” _______________________________________
Calvin Coolidge
“No man ever listened himself out of a job.”
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 Ernest Hemingway
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
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Frank Tyger
“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
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Robert Greenleaf
“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.”
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Ambrose Bierce
“Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
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Epictetus
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
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 Carl Rogers
“Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.”
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Dean Rusk
“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.”
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 Josh Billings
“The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
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Wilson Mizner
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”
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D.J. Kaufman
“Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is the province of knowledge to speak. And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
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Michael P. Nichols
“There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.”
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Chip Bell
“Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.”
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Diane Sawyer
“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”
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Harvey Mackay
“You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen—not just money, but respect.”
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
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Doug Larson
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.”
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 Ralph Nichols
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."
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Richard L. Evans
“One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans.”
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Richard L. Evans
“The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?”
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Richard L. Evans
“Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere.  And we had better see that 'someone' is us.”
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Richard L. Evans
“What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.”
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James Reston
“I learned the advantage of the dumb-boy technique. I found that people love to talk about themselves.”
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Epictitus
“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.”
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Albert Guinon
“There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
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Sharon G. Larsen
“Love is listening when they are ready to talk---midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you’re busy with your urgencies.”
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James Nathan Miller
“There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.”
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
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Deborah Tannen
“To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.”
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Heath Herber
“I would say that listening to the other person's emotions may be the most important thing I've learned in twenty years of business.”
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Rene McPherson
“The way to stay fresh is you never stop traveling, you never stop listening. You never stop asking people what they think.”
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Larry King
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
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“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
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 E. H. Mayo
“One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.”
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“What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention---with a turning of their hearts to each other, which is one of life's most important privileges and pursuits.”
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“Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other.  Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.”
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“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
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Kenneth A. Wells
“A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.”
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Lee Iacocca
I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
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Lionel Kendrick
“Our communications reflect in our countenance.  Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so.  Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.”
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“A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.”
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Lord Chesterfield
“I would rather be in company with a dead man, than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas, the absent man, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.”
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John Bryan
“You have to be willing sometimes to listen to some remarkable bad opinions. Because if you say to someone, 'That's the silliest thing I've ever heard; get on out of here!'—then you'll never get anything out of that person again, and you might as well have a puppet on a string or a robot.”
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“We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders.”
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“Of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable—and one of the least understood. Most captains of industry listen only sometimes, and they remain ordinary leaders. But a few, the great ones, never stop listening. That's how they get word before anyone else of unseen problems and opportunities.”
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“Encourage your children to come to you for counsel with their problems and questions by listening to them every day.  Discuss with them such important matters as dating, sex, and other matters affecting their growth and development, and do it early enough so they will not obtain information from questionable sources.”
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William R. Bradford
“Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love.  It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence?  Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?”
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William R. Bradford
“Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love.  It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening."
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 Ezra Taft Benson
“Take time to be a real friend to your children.  Listen to your children, really listen.  Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them.  Yes, regularly spend unused one-one-one time with each child.  Be a real friend to your children.”
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“Effective listeners remember that "words have no meaning - people have meaning." The assignment of meaning to a term is an internal process; meaning comes from inside us. And although our experiences, knowledge and attitudes differ, we often misinterpret each other’s messages while under the illusion that a common understanding has been achieved."
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“Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older?  Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?”
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“To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened.”
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Peter Senge
“To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind’s hearing to your ears’ natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning."
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Karl A. Menninger
"I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me, to be in their shoes when they talk, to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing, or changing the subject.  My attitude is: 'Tell me more!' This person is showing me his soul.  It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk, just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to

 Joyce Brothers
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
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Ring Lardner
“The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.”
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Alex Haley
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
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 Johann Schiller
“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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 Christopher Lasch
“The family is a haven in a heartless world.”
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John F. Kennedy
“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
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Bob Talbert
“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
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John Paul II
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
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 Margaret Mead
“No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.”
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Mario Puzo
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”
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 Helen Keller
“A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.”
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George Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”
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 Margaret Laurence
“In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry.”
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Titus 2:4
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.”
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 1 Timothy 3:5
“For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?”
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Marquise de Sévigné
“We cannot destroy kindred:  our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.”
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  Lee Iacocca

 Lee Iacocca
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.”
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Nancy Mitford
“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.”
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 Sigourney
"It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity."
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Julie B. Beck
"Strong families are not an accident…They take thought and intention and preparation and skill."
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 O. A. Battista
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”
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Ephesians  4:32
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
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 Wayne Dyer
“As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.”
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Zohar
“Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation.”                                                                                           ________________________________________
Milton R. Saperstein
“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.”
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Brad Henry
“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
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Gail Lumet Buckley
“Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”
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Sidonie Gruenberg
“Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.”
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Auguste Napier
“In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.”
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Eva Burrows
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
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Elizabeth II
“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
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George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
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 Margaret Mead
“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do.  With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.” 
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Robert Brault
“The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.”
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“Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble it’s best to seek out a relative's open arms.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.”
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 Jane Howard
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
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Robert Brault
“In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.”
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 Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
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Victor L. Brown
“Satan’s ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war.”
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 Kendall Hailey
“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.”
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George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
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 Marge Kennedy
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
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Agatha Christie
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
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 Winston Churchill
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”
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William Saroyan
“Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them.”
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 Mahatma Gandhi
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
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Brian Tracy
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
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Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”                                                                              _______________________________________
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."
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Vince Lombardi
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
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John Milton
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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James G. Bilkey
"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."
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Thomas Henry Huxley
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not."
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
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Sterling W. Sill
“It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.”
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William James
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that you can change your circumstances by changing your attitudes of mind."
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.”
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W. K. Hope
“Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.”
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Harry S. Truman
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”
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Rob Gilbert
“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.”
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Epictetus
“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
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Harold Schoenberg
“Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.”
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“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.”
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 Seneca
“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.”
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 George Washington
“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
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Julie Andrews
“Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.”
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Harry S. Truman
"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first."
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 Brian Tracy
“The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.”
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 Critias of Athen
"If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside."
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 Brian Tracy
“Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.”
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 Clint Eastwood
"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."
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William Feather
"If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence."
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Jim Rohn
“Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.”
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
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Horace
"Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded."
________________________________________                                                                                              Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
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Brian Tracy
“The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence,mastery of your work.”
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Jim Rohn
“The most important question to ask on the job is not ‘what am I getting?’ The most important question to ask is ‘What am I becoming?’”
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Brian Tracy
“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem and personal satisfaction.”
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Carl Zuckmeyer
"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck."
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"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day."
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Rob Gilbert
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
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Brian Tracy
“People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it”.
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Johann Gottfried Von Herder
“Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion."
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Brian Tracy
“Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.”
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Jim Rohn
“Life is a unique combination of "want to"and"how to"and we need to give equal attention to both.”
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Josiah Quincy
"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first."
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Wayne W. Dyer
"You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
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Peter F. Drucker
"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter."
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Winston Churchill
“Never give in – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
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Norman Cousins
"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will."
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 Richard Cecil
"Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion."
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"It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
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Brian Tracy
"Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results."
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 Zig Ziglar
“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
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Brian Tracy
“Develop your willpower so that you can make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
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Brian Tracy
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success.”
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Hugh B. Brown
"Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be."
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Beverly Claridge
"Inspiration is a byproduct of discipline... simply getting up every day and planning, plotting, sketching, setting up or actually applying paint to a painting."
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George Washington
“Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.”
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Jim Rohn
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
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Wilma Rudolph
“It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.”
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“Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.”
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“Now brethren, can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.”
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Buddha
"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
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 Tyron Edwards
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
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George Washington
"Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another."
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Zig Ziglar
“Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!”
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Richard G. Scott
"Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life."
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Harry Browne
“Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.”
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“A person in good health usually has great authority over his arms, legs, fingers etc. He may get the same kind of authority over the mind, the tongue, the ambition with the Lords help.”
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William Somerset Maugham
"I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked…It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed."
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"No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character."
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E.M. Gray
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
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Jim Rohn,
“We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You’ve got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Be strong—be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline.”
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Bob Richards
“One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.”
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Maria Montessori
"Discipline must come through liberty…We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."
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“You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.”
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“The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa’s time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep—they called it work.”
________________________________________                                                                                                Harry Emerson Fosdick
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
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H. Ross Perot
"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment."
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Lee Iacocca
"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.”
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Robert Bridges
“That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.”
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John F. MacArthur Jr.
"Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead."
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Thomas S. Monson
“The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. Should temporary setbacks afflict us, a very significant part of our struggle for self-discipline is the determination and the courage to try again.”
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J.B. Charles
"Hands untrained in the use of tools destroy what they want to build. It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired, whether it's tearing down an old house or building a new one. Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes. But it must be used by a trained mind, a mind capable of disciplined thinking."
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Robert Blair
"That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune."
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Neal A. Maxwell
"Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality."
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Brutus Hamilton
"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."
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Bertrand Russell
"Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority."
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Joe J. Christensen
“In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of the story of the salesman who came to a house one hot summer day. Through the screen door he could see a young boy practicing his scales on the piano. His baseball glove and hat were by the side of the piano bench. He said, “Say, boy, is your mother home?” To which the boy replied, “What do you think?” Thank heavens for conscientious parents!”
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 Stephen R. Covey
“I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.”
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 James Allen
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life."
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Eric Hoffer
“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
________________________________________                                                                                        Confucius
“Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness”
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 Judith S. Marin
“Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness”
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Donna A. Favors
“Why give in to rudeness, when you can fight back with kindness.”
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 Dave Barry
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person”
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 Oscar Wilde
“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude”
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Alexander Chase
“A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed”
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 Lemony Snicket
"It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring."
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Bryant H. McGill
“A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.”
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 John Locke
“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”
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“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“…Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.”
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Margaret Cavendish
“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy."
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Sir Richard Steele
“Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.”
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Ed Hayes
"Our lives are fed by kind words of gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like `excuse me,' and other such simple courtesies. . . . Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life." Did you hear that phrase? "the sacrament of consideration."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving in and out of the traffic stream. The words were these: “Honk if you love Jesus.” No one honked. Perhaps each was disturbed by the thoughtless and rude actions of the offending driver. Then, again, would honking be an appropriate manner in which to show one’s love for the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Redeemer of all mankind? Such was not the pattern provided by Jesus of Nazareth.
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Donald Rumsfeld
“Remember where you came from.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
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Walter Payton
“Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.”
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Exodus 20:8
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
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 David Mamet
“Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.”
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Dean Acheson
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”
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 Gregory Peck
“Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?”
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Brigham Young
“Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.”
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 Benjamin Franklin
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
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 Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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Confucius
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
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 Confucius
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
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Joel Osteen
“A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.”
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 Napoleon Hill
“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself”
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 George Santayana
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”
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 Alexander the Great
“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Remember is the most important word in the English language.”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.”
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”
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Margaret Mead
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
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“Do you feel unpopular sometimes? Remember Noah and get back and build your ark.”
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 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
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Alan Alda
“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”
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 John C. Maxwell
“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
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 Dale Carnegie
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
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 Maya Angelou
“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”
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Mohandas Gandhi
“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”
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 Ronald Reagan
“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.”
________________________________________                                                                                        Benjamin Franklin
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
________________________________________                                                                                                Dale Carnegie
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
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Henry Ford
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
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 Epictetus
“If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.”
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Harriet Tubman
“Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
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 Andy Rooney
“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”
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Elie Wiesel
“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.”
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 Richard M. Nixon
“Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
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1 Chronicles 16:12
“Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.”
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Luke 17:32-33
“Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”
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Herbert Spencer
“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.”
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“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”
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Scott Adams
“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
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 Ezekiel 18:22
“All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.”
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Elie Wiesel
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”
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 Dale Carnegie
“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
________________________________________                                                                                           Henry Ward Beecher
“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”
________________________________________                                                                                                 Audrey Hepburn
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”
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 Charles Spurgeon
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
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Mary Kay Ash
“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
________________________________________                                                                                     Akhenaton
“Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.”
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Richard B. Wirthlin
“Yes, who we are is the sum of all the choices we make. We should always remember that our choices do not begin with the act, but in the mind with the idea.”
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 Epictetus
“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.”
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 Maxwell Maltz
“Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.”
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Dale Carnegie
“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?”
________________________________________                                                                                      Mahatma Gandhi
“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”
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“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
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 Mary Ellen Smoot
“A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from—each day. It reads, “No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment.”
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Isaiah 49:14-16
“But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.                                                      ________________________________________
Charlotte Bronte                                                                                                                                                      “Remorse is the poison of life.”
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“Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.”
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Jonathan Larson
“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
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 Mercedes Lackey
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
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Grenville Kleiser
“A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.”
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 Rafael Sabatini
“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.”
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Lawrence J Peter
“Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
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 Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
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Lucille Ball
“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.”
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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
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Arthur Miller
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
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 John Greenleaf Whittier
“Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.”
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 “Regret is insight that comes a day too late”
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Bob Dylan
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
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 John Barrymore
“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.”
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David Grayson
“Looking back, I have this to regret...that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”
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 Charles Dickens
“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”
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Harriet Doerr
“You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.”
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 Chinese Proverb
“To regret the past is to forfeit the future.”
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D. H. Lawrence
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
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 Victoria Holt
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
________________________________________                                                                                    “Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.”
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Lucy Larcom
“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”
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 Quevedo
“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
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 Jane Adams
“Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.”
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Fulton Oursler
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
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 Chinese Proverb
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
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Edgar Watson Howe
“When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.”
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 Napoleon Bonaparte
“The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.”
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Dante Alighieri
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.”
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 Cameron Diaz
“Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.”
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Katherine Mansfield
"Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in."
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“Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”
________________________________________                                                                                                          J P Getty
“I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.”
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 Buddha
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
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Alexander Graham Bell
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
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 Jim Rohn
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
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Sydney J. Harris
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
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 Stefan Zweig
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”
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Mary McCarthy
“Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.”
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 Henry Louis Menchen
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
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“If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, and with worries over the problems of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful”
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 Katharine Hepburn
“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”
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 Germaine Greer
“The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.”
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Mary Matalin
“You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.”
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 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.:
"Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did."
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John Gray
“It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret.”
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 Norman Macdonald
“The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.”
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“Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - "If I had my life to live over again, I'd do it all the same”
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 Arthur Brisbane
“Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.”
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Ida Scott Taylor
“Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.”
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 Brittany Renée
“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.”
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William O’Rourke
“Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.”
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 Rebecca Beard
“We should have no regrets…The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”
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Aldous Huxley
“If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
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 Marcel Proust  
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Barbara Sher
“People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Jonathan Carroll
“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart”
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“Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Louisa May Alcott
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
________________________________________                                                                                                 Max W. Swenson
“The object of the study was to assess the feelings of those who were about to die. Almost universally the patients agreed that the inevitability of death was not the issue. The real issue was how to live a full life. They all seemed to agree that the problem of dying is the regret of not having lived.”
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“All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.”
________________________________________                                                                                         Gordon B. Hinckley:
“We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.”
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Brent A. Barlow
“Enjoy wholesome recreation to reduce stress.”
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Vanessa Alvino
“Recreation involves the whole being.”
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“A little craziness once in a while perpetuates sanity.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.”
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 Ana Osborne
“Leisure is an essential part of life so remember to treat yourself right!"
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Nancy M. Morrow
"Quality of Life," without wholesome recreation....how is this possible?”
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 Soren Kierkegaard
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it.”
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Plato
"You can learn more about a man in an hour of play than in a lifetime of conversation."
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 Phaedrus
"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking."
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N. Eldon Tanner
“To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities.”
________________________________________                                                                          Brigham Young
"Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life."
________________________________________                                                                                         Saavedra
"The bow cannot possibly always stand bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
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 Brigham Young
"The people must have amusement as well as religion…every pure enjoyment is from heaven.”
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Miguel De Cervantes
“The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.”
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 B. C. Forbes
“Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.”
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Patricia Miller
"We do better together, not alone. We need to play together to feel alive. We need to share together to feel whole. At any age, we need to feel, recreate, breathe!"
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 C. Neil Strait
“Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
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 Nancy M. Morrow
“Recreation offers the discovery of self satisfying pleasures ....a time for social expression and much needed family cohesion.”
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John Wanamaker
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
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Brigham Young
"Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation."
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Samuel Prime
"Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer."
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Marion D. Hanks
"People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high."
________________________________________                                                                                        Gene R. Cook
“Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.”
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"Recreation's purpose is not to kill time, but to make life, not to keep a person occupied, but to keep them refreshed; no to offer an escape from life, but to provide a discovery of life."
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Brigham Young
“Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.”
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 Harvey Taylor
"Activities are necessary for the fuller development of children and adults. They help to prevent emotional starvation.  If you analyze the gangster movement, you would find right at the back of it is emotional starvation."
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D. Todd Christofferson
Having spoken in praise of labor, I must also add a kind word for leisure. Just as honest toil gives rest its sweetness, wholesome recreation is the friend and steadying companion of work.
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Washington Gladden
"Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use…”
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J. Richard Clarke
“How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life.”
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James A. Michener
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.”
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Gary K. Palmer
“Play brings families together. It is a subtle tool for interaction and talk. It builds confidence because you can modify the rules to bring about success or any outcome you desire. Our inhibitions are minimized, and our real personalities emerge. Through play we develop relationships naturally. We tend to like people we have fun with. Play allows us to use our minds and break out of familiar molds. It allows us to explore more.”
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David A. Bednar
"It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together."
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 George Bernard Shaw
“Better never than late.”
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John M. Mason
“Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.”
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 Louis XVIII
“Punctuality is the politeness of kings.”
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“Punctuality is the soul of business.”
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E. V. Verrall
“I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.”
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Janise Wooten
“When I finally pass away I don't want to be labeled "the late, late Janise”
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 French Proverb
“The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.”
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William Shakespeare
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
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 David O. McKay
"The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early"
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John A. Widtsoe
“Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.”
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“Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be”
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Richard Cecil
“Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality”
________________________________________                                                                                                     Gearald Barzan
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone.”
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Franklin P. Jones
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.”
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 Wes Fessler
“It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”
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 Boyd K. Packer
“Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.”
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.”
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 Lord Nelson
“I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.”
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Don Marquis
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
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 Samuel Beckett
“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?”
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“If you are 15 minutes early you are on time. If you are on time you are late and if your late you didn’t want to be there.”
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 Sterling W. Sill
“Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.”
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Richard Cecil
“If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.”
________________________________________                                                                                         Grenville Kleiser
“As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you”
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Nathaniel Emmons
“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”
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Horace Mann
“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.”
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John F. Boyes
"Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character."
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Sterling W. Sill
“Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination…”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.”
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Charles Dickens
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
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Wilbur Fisk
“I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life.”
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Charles Fontaine
“When a secretary of Washington, excusing himself for being late, said that his watch was too slow, the reply of Washington was, ‘You must get a new watch, or I must get a new secretary.’”
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William Mathews
“Nothing inspires confidence in a business man sooner than punctuality, nor is there any habit which sooner saps his reputation than that of being always behind time.”
________________________________________                                                                                             William Hazlitt
“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
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Punctuality, my children," said the old man, "is the thief of time. I have been a victim to the pernicious vice of punctuality all my life. I must have wasted years by being up to time and having to wait for people."
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Charles Simmons
“Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.”
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 Sterling W. Sill
"The Lord is the greatest of all believers in punctuality. In fact he is the author of punctuality. He has a billion planets whirling through space in different directions and at different speeds, but each one is exactly on time. If one planet were a half minute late there might be very serious consequences. But God, who is the author of order, is in the habit of having his creations in exactly the right places at exactly the right time. Then how do you think he must feel when his greatest masterpiece, created in his own image, shows a high degree of irresponsibility and undependability in keeping his most simple appointments?” _______________________________________                                                                                                     Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Unless we progress, we regress.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
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Edward Gibbon
“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”
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 Frank Tyger
“Progress is not created by contented people.”
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Indira Gandhi
"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.”
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Don Marquis
“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”
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 Confucius
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
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Barry Diller
"Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go."
________________________________________                                                                                            Plato
“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
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“When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.”
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“Today's progress was yesterday's plan.”
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Chinese Proverb
“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The never-ending task of self improvement.”
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Oliver Cromwell
“He who stops being better stops being good.”
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 Isaac Asimov
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.”
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 Lou Holtz
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”
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Indira Gandhi
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
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 Kahlil Gibran
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
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Marie Curie
“I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.”
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 Anthony D'Angelo
“Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.”
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 Robert M. Pirsig
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
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Anthony Robbins
“Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement.”
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 Jim Rohn
“What you become directly influences what you get.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
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“Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.”
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Sean Gregory Derrick
“No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something.”
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 Les Brown
“Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.”
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“The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.”
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 Eden Phillpotts
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.”
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“Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.”
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 William Ellery Channing
“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.”
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C.R. Lawton
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.”
_______________________________________                                                                                               Lee Iacocca
“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”
________________________________________                                                                                      Marion G. Romney
"While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.”
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Louis Kronenberger
“The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.”
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 Samuel Butler
“All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
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Paul J. Meyer
"Do a little more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in"
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 Abraham Maslow
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
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Henry Ford
“There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.”
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 George Bernard Shaw
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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Clare Booth Luce
"In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed."
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 Ann McGee Cooper
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. –
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Margaret Fuller
"Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get it perfect."
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Thomas A. Edison
“Restlessness is discontent--and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
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Calvin Coolidge
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
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“The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.”
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James Allen
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
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 Christian Nevell Bovee
“The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.”
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 Andrew Carnegie
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.”
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Shirley Chisholm
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
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James Freeman Clarke
“We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.”                   _______________________________________
Tryon Edwards
“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.”
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 Thomas J. Watson
“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”
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Greg Werner
“Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.”
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 Abraham Lincoln
“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”
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Harold Mayfield
“Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.”
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Richard A. Nelson
“When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.”
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“Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.”
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.”
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Henri Frederic Amiel
“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”
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 Gilbert Arland
“When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.”
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Ella Wilcox
“Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.”
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Nadine Gordimer
“Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.”
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Henry J. Kaiser
“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”
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 Joan Borysenko
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."
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Barbara Hall
"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
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Aldous Huxley
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner.”
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Aristotle
“It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.”
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Pablo Picasso
“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”
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Charles Haanel
"The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do."
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John A. Widtsoe
“A beginning must be made somewhere and corner by corner, department by department, space by space, all will be known and conquered. In the end, all must be explored, and whether one begins in the east or the west cannot matter much. The big concern is the extent to which a man offers himself, mind and body, to his worthwhile work. Upon that will growth depend."
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Sir Winston Churchill
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
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 Edward W. Smith
"When something aggravating, such as a siren, car alarm, etc, bothers you, that is a good time to check to see if what you were doing at that moment, was something that will take you away from your aggravations and towards your goals. So the next time something aggravates you, use that as a check to see if your actions are going in the right direction, or not. In that way, life's aggravations can become good reminders to stay on the course towards a better life."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.”
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Socrates
“Talk in order that I may see you.”
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Shakespeare
“Mend your speech a little, lest it may mar your fortunes.”
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 2 Peter 2:7
“Vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly"
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.”
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Ted E. Brewerton
“We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.”
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Psalms 34:13
“Keep thy tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.”
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Boyd K. Packer
"However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong"
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“But I saw unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne.”
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Bob Hope
"With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films."
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Antoine R. Ivins
"If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life."
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William Cowper
“It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.”
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Dallin H. Oaks
“The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity --- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.”
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Matthew 12:37
“For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
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 Matthew 15:11
“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth.”
________________________________________                                                                                            Jeremiah 23:10
“For because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.”
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Exodus 20:7
“Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."
________________________________________                                                                                                Jeremy Taylor
“Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.”
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Ephesians 4: 29
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
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 James 5:12
“But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath…”
________________________________________                                                                                                               Colossians 3:8
“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”
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 Bob Greene
“Obscenity, the open use of which used to be a mark of lower social strata, has somehow become acceptable in everyday conversation for everyday people.
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Ted E. Brewerton
“Which of the Lord’s Ten Commandments is probably broken the most frequently? I believe it would be taking the name of God in vain.”
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1 Timothy 4:12
“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
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James 3:10
“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.
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Leviticus 19:12
“And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.”
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Proverbs 29:34
“Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not”
________________________________________                                                                                           Charles Didier
“Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are…”
________________________________________                                                                                                      2 Timothy 2:16
"But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.  And their word will eat as doth a canker..."
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John S. Choldston
“Unfortunately, it seems that the more “civilized” we become, the more inundated by filthy language and profanity we are.”
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George Washington
"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."
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Matthew 12:36
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion—that…there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.”
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Joseph Fielding Smith
“Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps…Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.”
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Leviticus 24:16
“And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.”
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Hodding Carter
“If it was once rare to hear sailors’ language in mixed company, it is now difficult to avoid it. For whatever reason, the enduring contribution to America left by the 1960s has been the debasement of public discourse and behavior.”
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George Q. Cannon
“Do angels take the Lord’s name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. … How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?”   __________________________________                                                                                                      David O. McKay
“No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.”
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John S. Tanner
“Modern speech, so frequently debased by profanity and obscenity, says much about the character of our society. Our language environment has been blighted by obscenity and profanity just as real and pernicious as the pollution that fouls our land, water, and air.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others."
________________________________________                                                                                        Hodding Carter
“And so we are assaulted on all sides by the ethos of the slob, with few having the courage or desire to confront it head on…I rarely challenge the foul mouth who embarrasses my mother in a public place…I, like most of you, simply wince and turn away.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.
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Ezra Taft Benson
“One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity --- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name of Deity is enjoined in holy writ. Jesus made this clear when teaching His disciples to pray. He said, addressing the Father, "Hallowed be thy name: (see Matthew 6:9). Blaspheming the name of God separates man from his Creator.”
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Bob Greene
“Bathroom and sexual obscenities can now be heard in certain popular songs on the radio, and even some magazines and newspapers have begun to print language that would have been unthinkable five years ago. This practice is usually defended under the name of ‘freedom.’ But whose freedom is it? If the language of ugliness becomes so much a part of our society that it is impossible to escape no matter where one turns, then who is free and who isn’t?”
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George Washington
“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in our American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impropriety and folly.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.”
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 Mae West
"He who hesitates is last."
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"If and When were planted, and Nothing grew."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"How soon ‘not now’ become ‘never’.”
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 Napoleon Hill
"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right".
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"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
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Dawson Trotman
"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
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Will Rogers
"Even if you’re on the right track-you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
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Christopher Parker
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot fun until you get the bill."
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Sally Berger
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
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"When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller."
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"Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan."
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 Randal Wright
“Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?”
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William Arthur Ward
"Begin while other are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
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Dale Carnegie
"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
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 William James
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice."
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Matthew Burton
"Procrastination is the seed of self destruction."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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Syrus
"The next day is never so good as the day before."
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C. Northcote Parkinson
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
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Fred Brooks
"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."
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 Edward Young
"Time wasted is existence; used is life."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Procrastination—thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!”
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Proverbs 19:15
“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.”
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“I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.”
________________________________________                                                                                                William James
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”  
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 Don Marquis
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
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Charles Kingsley
“Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.”  
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 Vincent T. Foss
“One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.”  
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Benjamin Franklin
“You may delay, but time will not.”  
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“Someday is not a day of the week.”
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Eva Young
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
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 C. Northcote Parkinson
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
________________________________________                                                                                                           Victor Kiam
“Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.”
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 Olin Miller
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
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Scottish Proverb
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
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Gerald Vaughan
“Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.”
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Spanish Proverb
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”
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Edward Young
“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.”
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Jimmy Lyons
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.”
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Karen Lamb
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
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H.G. Bohn
“One of these days is none of these days.” 
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Vincent T. Foss
"One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow."
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Benjamin Franklin
"You may delay, but time will not."
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Donald Gardner
"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!"
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 Jerry West
"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
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Jean de La Bruyère
"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity."
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Rita Emmett
"The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
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Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
“There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.”
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Earl of Chesterfield
“It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”
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 George Claude Lorimer
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard.  Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
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“Why is it that we think of doing nothing as the good life when in reality it doesn’t get any worse than that.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Spencer W. Kimball
“One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?”
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 Neal A Maxwell
"Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal."
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Reed Smoot
"There is nothing that steals man's time, his talents, his vigor, his energy…in greater degree than the crime of procrastination."
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“Procrastination is a silly thing, it only makes me sorrow; but I can change at any time—I think I will tomorrow!”
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Irene Kassorla
"Don't wait for your ‘ship to come in,’ and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small."
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David Allen
"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
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Omar Bradley
“We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."
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“And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.”
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Anne Frank
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
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Pearl S. Buck
"I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."
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Robert Benchley
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”  
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Mignon McLaughlin
"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all."
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Charles Buxton
"Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it."
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Napoleon Hill
"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."
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Wayne Dyer
"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
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Horace
"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
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Catherine Pulsifer
"Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation."
________________________________________                                                                                         Mignon McLaughlin
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
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Theodore Roosevelt
"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
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Byron Pulsifer
“Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all."
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Robert Anthony
"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reason to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count."
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Sterling W. Sill
“Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.”
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Mark 13:35-36
“Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.”
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Benjamin Franklin
"Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
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William A. Alcott
"Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy."
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Ida Scott Taylor
"Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time."
________________________________________                                                                                          William Nevins
"Procrastination has been called a thief,--the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul."
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Og Mandino
" To be always intending to make a new and better life but never find time to set about it is as…to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to next until you’re dead."
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"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
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Spencer W. Kimball
“In my office…I have a little sign and it says, ‘Do it!’ I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done.”
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"Don’t procrastination. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply give you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence. Do it now, brother, do it now."
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Norman Vincent Peale
"The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too."
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Dale Carnegie
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."
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 Lee Iacocca
"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."
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Arnold Bennett
“We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.”
________________________________________                                                                                                           Russell M. Nelson
“Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others—time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.”
________________________________________                                                                                               Denis Waitley
"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy."
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Richard O'Conner
"Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we'd had more time. If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower."
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Joshua 24:15
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“Two centuries ago Edward Young said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes. Knowing this, each of us jars himself back to reality with the sure knowledge that, "This is my day of opportunity. I will not waste it."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn—a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.”
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William H. Bennett
“Inertia can work against us or for us depending on our starting point and our attitude. It works against us if we are at rest and are content to remain that way rather than getting into action. Procrastination, which is the practice of putting off, intentionally and habitually, those things that should be done in a timely manner, not only wastes time; but it leaves our lives empty, unfulfilled, and unhappy. Inertia works for us if we are in action and are moving forward and upward in meaningful ways toward all-important goals based on a clear understanding of who we are, where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going.” ________________________________________
Mahatma Gandhi
"Action expresses priorities."
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Scottish Proverb
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
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 Scott Caan
“Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.”
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Alan Lakein
“In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.”
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 David O. MaKay
“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
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Timothy Ferris
“Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”
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 Japanese Proverb
“Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.”
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Jonathan Kozol
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
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 George S. Patton, Jr.
“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Robert Frost
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
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 Keri Russell
“Sometimes it`s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”
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Simon Fulleringer
“When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.”
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 Shirley Conran
“First things first, second things never.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.”
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 Albert Einstein
“What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.”
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Lucius Columell
“The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Goethe
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” 
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 Samuel Butler
“All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” ________________________________________
Harry Lloyd
"Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be."
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Stephen R. Covey
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
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Mark 8:36
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
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John Armstrong
“You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.”
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Doris Lessing
“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important”
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Matthew 6:33
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”
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Og Mandino
“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.”
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Jim Rohn
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'”
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 Jim Rohn
“Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.”
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H. L. Hunt
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.”
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M. Russell Ballard
“All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.”
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Russell M. Nelson
“When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from “going overboard.”
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Zig Ziglar
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.”
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Mary O'Connor
“It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.”
________________________________________                                                                                       Timothy Ferriss
“Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Our great business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
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 Edward Humphrey
“True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.”
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Freya Stark
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.”
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Harvey Mackay
“Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.”
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 Harold B. Lee
“The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.”
________________________________________                                                                                                  Larry Winget
“Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, ‘I wish I had,’ or ‘I’m glad I did.’”
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Lou Holtz
“If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.”
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Eric Zorn
“Don’t waste your breath proclaiming what’s really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”
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Margaretta Rockefeller
“Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matter.  Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level.  There's no time for pettiness.”
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Lin Yu Tang
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Brian Tracy
“No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.”
________________________________________                                                                                                               Lee Iacocca
“No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
________________________________________                                                                                                Brian Tracy
“You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.”
________________________________________                                                                                                Saint Teresa
“Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life...If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.”
________________________________________                                                                                                Neal A. Maxwell
“Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.”
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Denis Waitley
“Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.”
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Robert Service
“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
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Timothy Ferriss
“Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.”
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George W. Bush
“I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Charles Hummel
“We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
________________________________________                                                                                            Stephen R. Covey
“It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.”
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Timothy Ferriss
“Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most people to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.”
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“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good’”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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 Stephen R. Covey
“Keep in mind that you are always saying “no” to something. If it isn’t to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.”
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William Gladstone
“To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.”
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N. Eldon Tanner
“I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.”
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Denis Waitley
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon usi

Earl Nightingale
“Things that are given to us for nothing we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value. The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free. Our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country - all these priceless possessions are free. But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if a home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing can never be replaced.”
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Miguel De Cervantes
“To be prepared is half the victory.”
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“When it is time for action the time for preparation is past.”
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A. Theodore Tuttle
“It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!”
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Abraham Lincoln
“I will prepare, and perhaps my chance will come”
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Henry Ford
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
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Thane Yost
“The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.”
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John F. Kennedy
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
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 Jackie Joyner Kersee
“It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
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Abraham Lincoln
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
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Benjamin Franklin
“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
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Henry Hartman
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
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 Seneca
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
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H. Jackson Brown
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today”
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 Joyce Brothers
“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. “
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Jack Youngblood
“Good luck is a residue of preparation.”
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 Daniel Webster
“No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.”
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Robert H. Schuller
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
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Joe Gibbs
“A winning effort begins with preparation.”
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Alexander Graham Bell
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
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Richard Kline
“Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.”
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John Dewey
“Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
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Confucius
“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”                                                                                           ________________________________________
Stuart Pearce
“But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.”
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.”
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Omar Epps
“I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?”
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Amos 4:12
“Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.”
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Arthur Ashe
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
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Alicia Machado
“If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.”
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Colin Powell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
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Barbara Jordan
“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.”
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George Washington Carver
“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.”
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Paul "Bear" Bryant
“It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
________________________________________                                                                                   Stephen King
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
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Paul Coffey
“Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.”
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 Louis L'Amour
“Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.”
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Michelangelo
“If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.”
________________________________________                                                                                                                   Johnny Carson
“Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'
________________________________________                                                                                                Eleanor Roosevelt
“One thing life taught me -- if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it”
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Bruce Jenner
“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete, or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.”
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Viscount Montgomery
“The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.”
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 William Hazlitt
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.”
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 H. L. Mencken
“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”
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Will Durant
“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”
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 Indira Gandhi
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
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"Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand"
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Kane O'Hara
“When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it…”
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“All colors will agree in the dark.”
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“Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.”
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 Carlo Goldoni
“He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.”
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Albert Einstein
“It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.”
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 Laurence J. Peter
“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
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Duchess Abrantes
“Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.”
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 Mark Twain
“The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
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“Prejudice is all in your head.”
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Harper Lee
“I think there's just one kind of folks.  Folks.”
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Voltaire
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
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 Mother Teresa
“If you judge people you have no time to love them.”
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William Penn
“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
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 Acts 7:26
“...ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another.”
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Herbert Spencer
“We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.”
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 Francis J. Grimke
“Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.”
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“If only closed minds came with closed mouths.”
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Merry Browne
“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.”
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Ambrose Bierce
“Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
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Carrie Latet
“If your lens is prejudice, you're wearing the wrong prescription.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
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“The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice.”
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Muhammad Ali
“Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.”
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 Edward Counsel
“Prejudice is the glass through which most things are seen and judged.”
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“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.”
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Wayne W. Dyer
“Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.”
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Marguerite Gardiner
“Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.”
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Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
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Sarah Louise Delany
“I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.”
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 Roger Ebert
“I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.”
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“No prejudice has ever been able to prove its case in the court of reason.”
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James E. Faust
“I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.”
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E.B. White
“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”
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 Albert Einstein
“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
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“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.”
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 Oscar Wilde
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
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William James
“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
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 Nelson DeMille
“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”
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Ralph W. Sockman
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.  The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”
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Edward Roscoe
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.  No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.”
________________________________________                                                                               Ralph W. Sockman
“In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.” 
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Carl T. Rowan
“A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.”
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Ernest Dimnet
“Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.”
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John Comenius
“Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.”
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“Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren't.”
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Judith Light
“Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.”
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Bess Truman
“I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.”
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Fulke Greville
“You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.”
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Lillian Hellman
“Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.”
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William James
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”
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Leo Tolstoy
“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.”
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Tryon Edwards
“He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.”
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“We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese.  It is natural to develop prejudices.  It is noble to rise above them.”
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George Aiken
“If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.” 
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Mark Twain
“I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices.  All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”
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Major Taylor
“I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.”
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Pearl S. Buck
“Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
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Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
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Loretta Sanchez
“I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.”
________________________________________                                                                                  Charlotte Bronte
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
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Daniel Webster
“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.”
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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.”
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 Dale Carnegie
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.”
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Goethe
“Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.”
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Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”
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Franklin Thomas
“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”
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Bill Clinton
“The divide of race has been America`s constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in...”
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Rod Serling
“I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
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Russell Kirk
“Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.”
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Ethan Allen
“Undoubtedly it is our duty, and for our best good, that we occupy and improve the faculties, with which our creator has endowed us, but so far as prejudice, or prepossession of opinion prevails over our minds, in the same proportion, reason is excluded from our theory or practice. Therefore if we would acquire useful knowledge, we must first divest ourselves of those impediments and sincerely endeavor to search out the truth: and draw our conclusions from reason and just argument, which will never conform to our inclination, interest or fancy but we must conform to that if we would.”
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Abraham Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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William Penn
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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Margaret Fuller
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
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Yogi Berra
Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
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Thomas Carlyle
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Bo Bennett
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
________________________________________                                                                                                        Julius Erving
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
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Horace Greeley
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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George Savile
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
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Wilson Mizner
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
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Karol Newlin
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it
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Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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Fournier
Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
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Immanuel Kant
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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Terry McMillan
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
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N. Eldon Tanner
Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.
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 David O. McKay
“A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say “no” in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile..”
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Norman Vincent Peale
"It's always too soon to quit!"
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Japanese Proverb
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
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Persius
“He conquers who endures.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”
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Joseph Roux
"At first we hope too much, later on, not enough."
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“I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.”
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Helen Keller
"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."
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French Proverb
“One may go a long way after one is tired.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Robert Schuller
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
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 Hannibal
"We will either find a way or make one."
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"Patience and perseverance surmount every difficulty."
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"There is no point at which having arrived we can remain."
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Steve Martin
"Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent"
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  Christopher Morley
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
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“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.”
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“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.”
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Cd thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.”  
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“The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Doc Childre
“An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with—for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.”
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Dennis Fakes
“Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.”
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“Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.”
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William Attwood
“Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults.”
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Mary Howitt
“God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections.”
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“Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.”
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C. Everet Koop
“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.”
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“Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.”
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Alvin Price
“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.”
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Anne Frank
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
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 Elbert Hubbard
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”
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Susanne Wesley
“The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.”
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 Jim DeMint
“One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.”
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 John Locke
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
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Paul Smally
“Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.”
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“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.”
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C.G. Jung
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”  
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Marcelene Cox
“Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.”
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Phyllis Diller
“It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”  
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Karen Brown
“My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.”
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 Pope John Paul II
“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”
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Rabbi Kassel Abelson
“The Hebrew word for parents is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will have.”
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Astrid Alauda
“There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children.  This time comes at the moment of conception.  A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.”  
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Frank Pittman
“The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.  The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.”  
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George A. Dorsey
“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home.  If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”
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William E. Blatz
“Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness.”
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Gary Smalley
“Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.”
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Bill Cosby
“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”
________________________________________                                                                                           Rachel Carson
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”
________________________________________                                                                                      Brian Tracy
“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”
________________________________________                                                                                           Joyce Maynard
“It's not only children who grow.  Parents do too.  As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.  I can't tell my children to reach for the sun.  All I can do is reach for it, myself.”  
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Susan Sarandon
“I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.”
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Rose Kennedy
“I looked on childrearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”
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Virginia Satir
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
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H. David Burton
“Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.”
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Thich Nhat Hanh
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
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Andrew Carnegie
“Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend.  No servants to come between.  These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.”
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Rose Kennedy
“Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.” 
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Patricia Holland
“We all come into the world crying—and a little bit wobbly. For parents to take a newborn infant, who is then only a bundle of potentialities, and love and guide and develop that child until a fully functional human being emerges is the grandest miracle of science, and the greatest of all arts.”
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Boyd K. Packer
“We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.”
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David O. McKay
"The home is the first and most effective place for children to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control; the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing—I repeat, nothing—will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. You will either rejoice and boast of their accomplishments or you will weep, head in hands, bereft and forlorn, if they become a disappointment or an embarrassment to you.”
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Fred Rogers
“When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.”
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Diane Loomans
“If I had my child to raise all over again, I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later. I’d finger-paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting. I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I’d take more hikes and fly more kites. I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play. I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars. I’d do more hugging and less tugging.“
________________________________________                                                                                                      John K. Rosemond
“Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No…Unfortunately, many, if not most, of today’s children suffer from Vitamin N deficiency. They’ve been overindulged by well-meaning parents who’ve given them far too much of what they want and far too little of what they truly need.”
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Joe J. Christensen
“Even though your children say, “Well, everyone else is going to stay out until one or two in the morning, and their parents don’t care. Why can’t I? Don’t you trust me?” let them know that there are some things that, as members of your family, you simply do not do. Some parents seem to be almost pathologically concerned about their children’s popularity and social acceptance and go along with many things that are really against their better judgment…For children and parents, standing up for what is right may be lonely at times. There may be evenings alone, parties missed, and movies which go unseen. It may not always be fun. But parenting is not a popularity contest.”
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 Albert Einstein
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
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Dorothy Broude
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
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Jonathan Swift
“May you live all the days of your life.”
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Bernhard Berenson
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”
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 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
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Thom Rainer
“Faith and optimism are contagious.”
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 William James
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
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Colleen Wilcox
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
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 Antonio Gramsci
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
________________________________________                                                                                               Louisa May Alcott
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
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 Larry Elder
“Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.”
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Arthur Lynch
“Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.”
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
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 Oscar Wilde
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
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Jimmy Dean
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
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Maria Robinson
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
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  Alex Tan
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
__ C“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”  
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George Levinger
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”  
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Bettina Arndt
“Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.”
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Harlan Miller
“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”
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Joseph Addison
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.”
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Laurence Sterne
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.”
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 Norman Wright and Gary Oliver
“In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“I have learned that the real essence of happiness in marriage lies not so much in romance as in an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.”
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1 Corinthians 7:2-3
“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence.”
________________________________________                                                                                             Mark Twain
“Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths.  No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”
________________________________________                                                                                                     N. Eldon Tanner
“...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other --three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.”
________________________________________                                                                                                     James E. Faust
“Those who enter into marriage should be fully prepared to establish their marriage as the first priority in their lives…True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer.  "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy.”
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1 Corinthians 11:11-12
“Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Choose a companion you can always honor, you can always respect, one who will complement you in your own life, one to whom you can give your entire heart, your entire love, your entire allegiance, your entire loyalty.”
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Robert Sexton
“In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare.  Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.”  
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Sydney J. Harris
“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.”
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John Gray
“Men mistakenly expect women to think, communicate, and react the way men do.  We have forgotten that men and women are supposed to be different.  As a result our relationships are filled with unnecessary friction and conflict.”
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 Matthew 19:5-6
“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
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Deuteronomy 24:5
“When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.”
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James E. Faust
“A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing 1 can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.”
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Jeffrey R. Holland
“No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone.  But where do we think good marriages come from?  They don’t spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education…Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?”
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David O. McKay
"My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart... I submit that as a true guide.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects…It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations"
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Thomas A. Kempis
“Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.”
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Abraham Stone
“Mature love differs from childish love in that it desires not merely the satisfaction of self, of one's own needs, but even more the satisfactions of the mate. A couple maturely in love, genuinely care for one another. They want to establish a kinship of body and feeling. They do not romantically endow each other with illusionary qualities, but see and accept in one another both virtues and faults.”
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Evelyn Duvall and Reuben Hill
“The kind of marriage you make depends upon the kind of person you are. If you are a happy, well-adjusted person, the chances are your marriage will be a happy one. If you have made adjustments so far with more satisfaction than distress, you are likely to make your marriage and family adjustments satisfactorily. If you are discontented and bitter about your lot in life, you will have to change before you can expect to live happily ever after.”
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Charles R. Swindoll
“Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.”
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M.Russell Ballard:
“When a couple comes to me for counsel relative to various struggles in their marriage, one of the first questions I ask them is, ‘Do you kneel together at the end of the day and hold hands and say your prayers?’ Interestingly, not once---not once---has the answer to that question been positive. Then I suggest, ‘Will you please go home and do that for the next thirty days?  Then you can return and we will talk again.’ Almost always the couples come back and, with tears in their eyes, share with me the sweet feelings that have returned to their marriage and how they think, at last, that they are going to make it.”
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 Og Mandino
“Do all things with love.”
_______________________________________                                                                                   Soren Kierkegaard
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
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“Hugs are the universal medicine.”
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 Mahatma Gandhi
“Hatred can be overcome only by love.”
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Mary Baker Eddy
“Jealousy is the grave of affection”
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
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“A hug is worth a thousand words.”
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“A hug is a handshake from the heart.” 
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Karen Sunde
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”
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 1 John 4:19
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
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“A hug is the shortest distance between friends.”
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Jean Paul F. Richter
“Paradise is always where love dwells.”
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 George Bernard Shaw
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
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1 Peter 1:22
“See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.”
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“Time + Touch + Talk + Teach = Love”
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Leo Buscaglia
“Everybody needs a hug.  It changes your metabolism.”  
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”
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“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
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 Eva Burrows
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”
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Felix Adler
“The family is the school of duties - founded on love.”
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 Anthony Brandt
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
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“You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.”
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 Buddha
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
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Barbara Bush
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
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 George Sand
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
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“Love is just a word until someone you meet gives it a proper meaning.”
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Jean Anouilh
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
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 Wills Cather
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
________________________________________                                                                                                   John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.”
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“People don't care what you do for them but how you make feel. “
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Roy Croft
“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
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 Frank A. Clark
“A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.”
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Bil Keane
“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.”
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 Elbert Hubbard
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.”
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 Zig Ziglar
“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”
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C.T. Davis
“One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.”
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"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."
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Benjamin Franklin
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
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Houssaye
"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
________________________________________                                                                                                     St. Augustine
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
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Lawrence Durrell
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
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 Thoreau
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
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Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
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 Oscar Hammerstein II
“Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?”
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Audrey Hepburn
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
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 George Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”
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Joyce Brothers
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
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 Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
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Elizabeth Browning
“Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
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 Michael Leunig
“Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that.”
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Theodore Hesburgh
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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 John 13:35
“By this all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
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Harold Voth
"Hugging can lift depression. It breathes fresh life into a tired body and makes you feel younger and more vibrant.
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 Robert Heinlein
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”  
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John 13:34
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
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 Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
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Sam Keen
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
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 Galatians 5:14
“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
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Mother Teresa
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
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C.S. Lewis
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
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Nan Fairbrother
“The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.”
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John 15:10
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
________________________________________                                                                                               George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
________________________________________                                                                                     Saint-Exupery
""Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
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"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
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1 Thessalonians 4:9
“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…but how much love we put in that action.”
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“No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office”
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Kendall Hailey
“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you”
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 Orlando A. Battista
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.”
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M. Grundler
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”
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Joseph Smith
“It is a time-honored adage that love begats love...cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold.”
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David B. Haight
“Someone has written, “Love is a verb.” It requires doing—not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?”
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William Arthur Ward
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
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Jim Rohn
“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”
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 Rosaleen Dickson
“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
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T.S. Eliot
“There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”
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John Lubbock
“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Cary Grant
“It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection.”
________________________________________                                                                                    William Saroyan
“Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.”
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“One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you meet someone who alters your conception of love, and you never know how you loved anything before because this kind of love is”
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H. Burke Peterson
“Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self-confidence that comes from truly being loved. Prisons and other institutions, even some of our own homes, are filled with those who have been starved for affection.”
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Walter Anderson
“If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person.  And mean it.  You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so.  It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind…cast-off and everyday clothing.”
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Giuseppe Mazzini
“The family is the country of the heart. There is an angel in the family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness”
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Russell M. Nelson
“Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, “I love you, sweetheart.” She responded rather blandly: “I know.” I asked, “How do you know that I love you?” Because! You’re my grandfather!”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.”
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James E. Faust
“Some parents have difficulty expressing their love physically or vocally. I do not ever recall my own father using the words, “Son, I love you,” but he showed it in a thousand ways which were more eloquent than words. He rarely missed a practice, a game, a race, or any activity in which his sons participated.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, ‘Mother, I truly love you’? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, ‘I love you.’”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“My plea—and I wish I were more eloquent in voicing it—is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight. They need happiness. They need love and nurture. They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.”
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James E. Faust
“LeGrand Richards shared with us the tender relationship he had with his father. Said he, ‘I walked into my father’s apartment when he was just about ninety,…and as I opened the door, he stood up and walked toward me and took me in his arms and hugged me and kissed me. He always did that…Taking me in his arms and calling me by my kid name, he said, ‘Grandy, my boy, I love you.’”
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Elizabeth R. McAnarney
“Adolescents need touch to facilitate communication and convey caring. When children are no longer held and comforted by their parents, they may turn to their peers instead. There is almost no data on this, but I wonder if the increase in very young teenage pregnancy comes form the need to be held. They may be using sex for a nonsexual purpose.”
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Joe J. Christensen
“Once when my father-in-law was leaving the house after lunch to return to the field to work, my mother-in-law said, ‘Albert, you get right back in here and tell me you love me.’ He grinned and jokingly said, ‘Elsie, when we were married, I told you I loved you, and if that ever changes, I’ll let you know.’ It’s hard to overuse the expression, ‘I love you.’ Use it daily.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one’s thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Listening is one of the forms of love.”
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“Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps.”
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Robert Schuller
“Big egos have little ears.”
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 Lao Tzu
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
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"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."
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 Richard Moss
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”
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Paul Tillich
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
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“Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.”
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M. Scott Peck
"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."
________________________________________                                                                                             Peter F. Drucher
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
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“My wife says I never listen to her.  At least I think that's what she said.” 
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 Thich Nhat Hanh
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.”  
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Eli Khamarov
“I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said.” 
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Woodrow Wilson
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
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Robert Greenleaf
“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.”
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 Joyce Brothers
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.” _______________________________________
Calvin Coolidge
“No man ever listened himself out of a job.”
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 Ernest Hemingway
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
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Frank Tyger
“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
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Robert Greenleaf
“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.”
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Ambrose Bierce
“Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
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Epictetus
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
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 Carl Rogers
“Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.”
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Dean Rusk
“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.”
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 Josh Billings
“The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
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Wilson Mizner
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”
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D.J. Kaufman
“Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is the province of knowledge to speak. And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
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Michael P. Nichols
“There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.”
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Chip Bell
“Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.”
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Diane Sawyer
“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”
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Harvey Mackay
“You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen—not just money, but respect.”
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
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Doug Larson
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.”
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 Ralph Nichols
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."
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Richard L. Evans
“One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans.”
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Richard L. Evans
“The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?”
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Richard L. Evans
“Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere.  And we had better see that 'someone' is us.”
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Richard L. Evans
“What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.”
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James Reston
“I learned the advantage of the dumb-boy technique. I found that people love to talk about themselves.”
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Epictitus
“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.”
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Albert Guinon
“There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
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Sharon G. Larsen
“Love is listening when they are ready to talk---midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you’re busy with your urgencies.”
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James Nathan Miller
“There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.”
________________________________________                                                                                            Winston Churchill
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
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Deborah Tannen
“To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.”
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Heath Herber
“I would say that listening to the other person's emotions may be the most important thing I've learned in twenty years of business.”
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Rene McPherson
“The way to stay fresh is you never stop traveling, you never stop listening. You never stop asking people what they think.”
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Larry King
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
________________________________________                                                                                                        J. Isham
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
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 E. H. Mayo
“One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.”
________________________________________                                                                                      Richard L. Evans
“What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention---with a turning of their hearts to each other, which is one of life's most important privileges and pursuits.”
________________________________________                                                                                       Marvin J. Ashton
“Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other.  Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.”
________________________________________                                                                                                   Karl Menninger
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
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Kenneth A. Wells
“A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.”
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Lee Iacocca
I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
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Lionel Kendrick
“Our communications reflect in our countenance.  Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so.  Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.”
________________________________________                                                                                           Marvin J. Ashton
“A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.”
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Lord Chesterfield
“I would rather be in company with a dead man, than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas, the absent man, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.”
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John Bryan
“You have to be willing sometimes to listen to some remarkable bad opinions. Because if you say to someone, 'That's the silliest thing I've ever heard; get on out of here!'—then you'll never get anything out of that person again, and you might as well have a puppet on a string or a robot.”
________________________________________                                                                                            Mao Tse-tung
“We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders.”
________________________________________                                                                                               Peter Nulty
“Of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable—and one of the least understood. Most captains of industry listen only sometimes, and they remain ordinary leaders. But a few, the great ones, never stop listening. That's how they get word before anyone else of unseen problems and opportunities.”
________________________________________                                                                                                            Ezra Taft Benson
“Encourage your children to come to you for counsel with their problems and questions by listening to them every day.  Discuss with them such important matters as dating, sex, and other matters affecting their growth and development, and do it early enough so they will not obtain information from questionable sources.”
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William R. Bradford
“Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love.  It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence?  Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?”
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William R. Bradford
“Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love.  It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening."
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 Ezra Taft Benson
“Take time to be a real friend to your children.  Listen to your children, really listen.  Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them.  Yes, regularly spend unused one-one-one time with each child.  Be a real friend to your children.”
________________________________________                                                                                                  Larry Barker
“Effective listeners remember that "words have no meaning - people have meaning." The assignment of meaning to a term is an internal process; meaning comes from inside us. And although our experiences, knowledge and attitudes differ, we often misinterpret each other’s messages while under the illusion that a common understanding has been achieved."
________________________________________                                                                                          Spencer W. Kimball
“Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older?  Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?”
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“To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened.”
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Peter Senge
“To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind’s hearing to your ears’ natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning."
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Karl A. Menninger
"I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me, to be in their shoes when they talk, to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing, or changing the subject.  My attitude is: 'Tell me more!' This person is showing me his soul.  It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk, just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk.  He will show his true self.  Then he will be wonderfully alive.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“A willingness to listen. Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy. We should all increase our ability to ask comfortable questions, and then listen—intently, naturally. Listening is a tied-in part of loving.”
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Charles H. Perkhurst
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
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Bideingmytime William Ellery
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
________________________________________                                                                                              Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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Vince Lombardi
Success demands singleness of purpose.
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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A useless life is an early death. 
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When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.             ________________________________________
Marcus T. Cicero
Before beginning, plan carefully.”
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“A target, to be hit, must be seen.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything”
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“An unwritten goal is merely a wish.”
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Norman Vincent Peale
“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.”
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“No aim leads to no end”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
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John A. Widstoe
“There never was a revelation without a question first.”
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Albert Schweitzer
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
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"If we fail to plan, we plan to fail."
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Richard C. Cushing
“Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
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“If you chase two rabbits both will escape.”
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James 1:22
"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."
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"No man is every born into the world whose work is not born with him."
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“A goal is an end that one strives to attain.”
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
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Chuck Knox
“Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.”
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"Obstacles are things we see when we take our eyes off the goal."
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Richard L. Evans
"We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do."
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.”
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“If you really understood you were a child of God everything else would fall into place.”
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 Philippians 4:13
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
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Acts 9:6
“And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
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“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
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Harvey Mackay
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
________________________________________                                                                                           Spencer W. Kimball
“Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men’s souls.”
________________________________________                                                                                                  Ezra Taft Benson
“If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.”
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“Too much time is spent watching others live out their dreams while missing our own”
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Alan Lakein
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”
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 Earl Nightingale
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Reach and strain... .Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars."
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Thomas S. Monson
“Study with purpose, both in church and in school. Write down your goals and what you plan to do to achieve them. Aim high, for you are capable…”
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"All the world stands aside for the man who knows where he is going and how he is going to get there."
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Joseph F. Smith
“Every son and every daughter of God has received some talent, and each will be held to strict account for the use or misuse to which it is put."
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Chuck Coonradt
“In the absence of clearly defined goals, we are forced to concentrate on activity and ultimately become enslaved by it."
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W.E. Ziege
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."
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Ben Stein
“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”
________________________________________                                                                                               Lou Holtz
"If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don't have enough goals."
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"The man who thinks out what he wants to do, and then works and works hard, will win, and no others do, or ever have, or can--God will not have it so."
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“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your whole life running up and down the field and never scoring.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
"Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely."
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Goals are good.  Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best."
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Ezra Taft Benson
”We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.”
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Randal Wright
“If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“There is a blueprint for every accomplishment--all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.”
________________________________________                                                                                            Ronald Reagan
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”
________________________________________                                                                                            Steve Garvey
“You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.”
________________________________________                                                                                              Ezra Taft Benson
“When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.     _______________________________________                                                                                                Neal A. Maxwell
“Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.”
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Richard G. Scott
"Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life."
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off."
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M. Russell Ballard
“Set...goals that you can reach. Set goals that are well balanced--not too many not too few, and not too high not too low. Write down your attainable goals and work on them according to their importance. Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
"You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.".
________________________________________                                                                                                    Ezra Taft Benson
Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into one burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive. Without knowing it, we may be torn by conflicting impulses or desires.”
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“It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark within him. Such characterizations infer that man possesses great abilities and potentials. We are frequently admonished to develop our capabilities, reach out, and set high goals for ourselves.”
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“Often we hear folks say, "I can't see the forest for the trees." How important it is for us to ascend a vantage point from time to time, above the fog that my friend referred to; there to check direction and relative position, there to decide on things of most importance; there to re-evaluate our goals.”
________________________________________                                                                                                   Neal A. Maxwell
“Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward -- only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!”
________________________________________                                                                                                 Ezra Taft Benson
If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of accomplishment and the challenge of establishing fresh, new goals -- always keeping the long-range objective in mind. If we can state our goals clearly, we will gain a purpose and meaning in all our actions.                                                                     ________________________________________                                                                                               Neal A. Maxwell
“Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives
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Ezra Taft Benson
“If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing -- goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little goal setting, including the reflecting that precedes the setting of such goals. Too many marriages have financial goals but not other explicit goals. Yet the gospel is certainly goal-oriented.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.”
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 Sterling W. Sill
“Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Goals, to be most helpful, need to be or include (1) personal or individual goals, (2) specific goals (a vague goal is no goal at all), and (3) a specific timetable for accomplishment. Then there are these added elements often neglected: the goal should be (4) written (it is less apt to be forgotten and can vex us properly); (5) "registered" (if appropriate, with certain others who can urge us on to its accomplishment); and (6) do-able or attainable.”
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M. Russell Ballard
“Maybe some of you get weary of listening to the principle of setting goals. But let me tell you something about goal setting. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When one learns to master the principle of setting a goal, he will then be able to make a great difference in the results he attains in this life.”
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Howard W. Hunter
"To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us---on eternal life and the joy of salvation---we assuredly will obtain it."
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Spencer W. Kimball
“As well as establishing worthy goals, charting the course presents one from living an unplanned, haphazard life a tumbleweed existence. Over the…plains, upon the hillsides and along the fence-lines of the valleys, grows the tumbleweed. When mature and dry, the plant breaks from its roots and, as a rounded tangle of light stiff branches, rolls about like a ball. If the wind blows west, the weed rolls against the western fences. With each direction change in the wind, the rounded weed rolls with it, following lines of least resistance until stopped by fences or walls or ditch banks. As the wind blows down the road, the tumbleweeds go rolling like mammoth marbles thrown from a giant hand.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
A. Alone or in a group write down in two minutes five major lifetime goals you have.
B. Next, write down in two minutes five major goals for the next year of your life.
C. Next, write down in two minutes five major goals you'd pursue if you knew you only had six months to live.
D. Finally, write down in two minutes specific ways in which you have spent time during the last week of your life that relate to the goals listed in A, B, and C.
This exercise in pondering (under pressure of time) tends to make explicit much that is often unarticulated. The exercise also tends to produce family -- centered and gospel centered goals -- strategic things tend to emerge and mundane tactical things to shrink in their psychological size. The last two minutes are usually the most uncomfortable for participants, because we see how unconnected our expenditures of time are to some of our real goals.
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W. R. Inge
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”
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Robert Hillyer
“If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.”
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John Lubbock
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
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Robert Eliot
“Rule No. 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.”
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William Shakespeare
“The worst is not so long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’"
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Corrie ten Boom
“Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.”
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Edmund Burke
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
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 Honore de Balzac
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
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Marie Bashkirtseff
“The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”
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Charles Baudelaire
“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
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 Fairlane
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“If you want a work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time.”
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 Franklin P. Jones
“Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.”
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 Jim Fox
"Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
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Daniel H. Wells
"I find that the more I do the more ability the Almighty gives me."
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"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
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Spencer W. Kimball
"It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto."
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Thomas Jefferson
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
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 Thomas A. Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety per cent perspiration."
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Orlando Battista
“Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.”
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 Neal A. Maxwell
“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”
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“Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest - it is the hardest when we work the easiest. “
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 Randal Wright
“It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.
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“If you were to ask your great grandparents what type tranquilizers they had in their day to help them sleep at night they would probably say work.”
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Francis M. Lyman
“I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.”
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Peter Drucker
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.”
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 Ann Landers
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
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Allen Stockdale
"God gave us a world unfinished, so that we might share in the joys and satisfaction of creation."
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 Rudger Clawson
"The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in it attainment."
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Edward Bok
"Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it.  And put everything you've got into it."
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 Arthur Conan Doyle
“I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.”
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Dallin Oaks
“…A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.”
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Sam Ewing
“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.”
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 Henry Ford
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
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Theodore Roosevelt
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
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“One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
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John Ruskin
“Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.”
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Thomas Edison
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
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George Bernard Shaw
"When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work."
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Abigail Van Buren
"If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
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Farrendon
"Satan selects his disciples when they are idle; but Christ chose His when they were busy at their work."
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Michelangelo
"If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem wonderful at all."
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Spencer W. Kimball
Work brings happiness, self-esteem, and prosperity. It is the means of all accomplishment; it is the opposite of idleness.”
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Proverbs 23:21
“The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“One of the greatest values . . . is the virtue of honest work. Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.”
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Booker T. Washington
"No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
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Francis M. Lyman
"I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief."
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Gordon B. Hinkley:
"The work of the world is not done by intellectual geniuses. It is done by men of ordinary capacity who use their abilities in an extraordinary manner.”
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Thomas Carlyle
"There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work.  There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works.  In idleness alone is the perpetual despair."
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J. Reuben Clark, Jr:
"There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness.  It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.".
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.”
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Og Mandino
“The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.”
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Walter R. Courtenay
“God gave man work, not to burden him, but to bless him, and useful work, willingly, cheerfully, effectively done, has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.”
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“People who just coast along with no oars, sails or engine gloat down the river and the current just carries them down gradually until they come down into the swamps.”
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Sir M. Hale
"Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and end in iron chains.  The more business a man has to do the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time."
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John Ruskin
"If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it.  Toil is the law.  Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence.  When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one."
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Heber J. Grant
"The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid."
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“Some people get confused and think there is only occupational work. Although that is very important there is also - church work, missionary work, family work, genealogy work, physical work outs etc.”
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Sterling W. Sill
"One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become an oak tree or a pumpkin.”
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Marion G. Romney
"It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own action determine our blessings or lack of them."
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"Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do; rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They are greatly mistaken who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion."
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Charles Kingsley
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.  Being forced to work and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle will never know."
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 Gordon B. Hinckley
“We are all inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work. A little play and a little loafing are good—that is one of the reasons you are here. But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lifts us from the stagnation of mediocrity.”
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Brigham Young
“It is never any benefit to give out and out to man or woman, money, food, clothing or anything else, if they are able-bodied, and can work to earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. . . . To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers. People trained in this way have no interest in working.
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 David Grayson
“Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work. It is one of the follies of men to imagine that they can enjoy mere thought or emotion or sentiment. As well try to eat beauty! For happiness must be tricked! She loves to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness and self-sacrifice. She will be found not in palaces but lurking in corn fields and factories and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child. If you look up suddenly from hard work you will see her, but if you look too long she fades sorrowfully away.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”
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 Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness”
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Edmund Waller
“Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.”
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 Marge Piercy
“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”
________________________________________                                                                                     Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.”
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 Amos Bronson Alcott
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness”
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 Chinese Proverb
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
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“Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.”
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Richard L. Evans
"We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are."
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Jacquelyn K. Heasley
“A man will act out what he believes himself to be.”
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“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
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Mike Murdock
“Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.”
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Pierre Corneille
“Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.”
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Jean Vanier
“Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.”
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William Penn
“If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.”
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William James
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
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Albert Einstein
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
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 Plato
"It is the first and best of all victories for a man to conquer himself."
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La Rochefoucauld
“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”
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William Allen White
“Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.”
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Thomas Kempis
“The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.”
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“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.”
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Vernon Howard
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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 Kirsten Dunst
“My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.”
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Meg Ryan
“It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.”
________________________________________                                                                                                     Wes Fessler
“Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.”
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Rob Gilbert
“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
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Ella Maillart
“I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.”
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Aaron Eckhart
“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”
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La Rochefoucauld
“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
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Orlando A. Battista
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.”
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 M. Kathleen Casey
“There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.”
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Voltaire
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
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John Wooden
“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
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 Marlene Kietrich
“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”
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Michael Jordan
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”
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Thomas Alva Edison
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
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Plutarch
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.”
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Angelina Jolie
“I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one`s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
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William J. H. Boetcker
“Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.”
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William Arthur Ward
“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
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Tryon Edwards
“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.”
________________________________________                                                                                         Blaise Pascal
“If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?”
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“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.”
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Ten Ugliest Character Flaws: 1. Arrogant, Argumentative 2. Dishonest 3. Short-tempered, Combative 4. Need to Always be Right (Conceited) 5. Perfectionist, Nit-Picking 6. Being the Victim, Always Blaming the Other Guy 7. Selfish, Miserly 8. Stubborn, Rigid (Inflexible), Narrow-mindedness 8. Vain, Prideful (Haughty) 10. Humorless, Inability to Laugh at Yourself
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Bryant S. Hinckley
“When a man makes war on his own weaknesses he engages in the holiest war that mortals ever wage. The reward that comes from victory in this struggle is the most enduring, most satisfying, and the most exquisite that man ever experiences. In no other conflict is there so much at stake. In no other struggle are the values so precious and the results so compensating and so comforting.
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“There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this.”
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Thomas Edison
"Vision without execution is hallucination.”
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Proverbs 29:18
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
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 Sam Walton
“Capital isn't scarce; vision is.”
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“Knowing your destination is half the journey.”
________________________________________                                                                                        Joseph Edward Murphy
“We go where our vision is.”
_______________________________________                                                                                   George Washington Carver
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
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 Helen Keller
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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 Wilferd Peterson
"Big thinking precedes great achievement."
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Winston Churchill
“The empires of the future are empires of the mind."
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 Jonathan Swift
"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."
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Werner Erhard
“Create your future from your future, not your past.”
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”
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Mevlana Rumi
“Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.”
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 David Ben-Gurion
"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
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Eric Hofer
"The only way to predict the future is to have the power to shape it."
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Christopher Reeve
"So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable."
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Mark Twain
“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
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Paulo Coelho
“A philosophy of life: I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure.”
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Henry David Thoreau
"In the long run men hit only what they aim at."
________________________________________                                                                                            John Sculley
"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."
________________________________________                                                                                       Warren Bennis
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
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"Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you are going."
________________________________________                                                                                                Ted Levitt
"The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious."
________________________________________                                                                                               Louis Nizer
"A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way."
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“The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.”
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 Sir Isaac Newton
“If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
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John Wooden
“If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther.”
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 George Lucas
"Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it."
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Patrick Snow
“Only those who can see the invisible can accomplish the impossible!”
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 Seneca
“To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.”
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Mia Hamm
"Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed."
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 William Jennings Bryan
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.”
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Henri B. Stendhal
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
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Henry Ford
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
________________________________________                                                                           George Bernard Shaw
“Do not follow where the path my lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
________________________________________                                                                                             Alfred A. Montapert
“To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.”
________________________________________                                                                                                     St. Augustine
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.”
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Mick Ukleja and Robert Lorber
“Reflection is looking in so you can look out with a broader, bigger, and more accurate perspective.”
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"Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision."
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 Norman Vincent Peale
“No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they're always there.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
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Joel A. Barke
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
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 Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
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Robert Collier
“Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”
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Carl Jung
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
________________________________________                                                                                         Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
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Ayn Rand
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
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Jon Madonna
“Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.”
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Mark Twain
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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Ronald Reagan
“To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.”
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Mark Twain
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”
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Alvin Toffler
"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."
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Jim Rohn
"You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming."
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Adlai E. Stevenson
"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."
________________________________________                                                                                    Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
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 Charles R. Swindoll
"When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic."
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Peter Drucker
"The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains."
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 Michelangelo
"The greatest danger 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."
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Andrew Carnegie
"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
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Watts Wacker
"No one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid beliefs about what tomorrow will contain."
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Ralph Lauren
“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”
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 David Gergen
“A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.”
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Robert Fritz
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
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Bill Copeland
"The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never scoring."
________________________________________                                                                                              Jack Nicklaus
"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation."
________________________________________                                                                                           Vaclav Havel
“Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”
_______________________________________                                                                                     James Allen
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”      _______________________________________
John Kotter
“Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.”
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Robert Collier
“The great successful men of the world have used their imagination they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.”
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Daniel H. Burnham
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
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Norman Vincent Peale
“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture.”
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Sören Kierkegaard
“It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.”
________________________________________                                                                                         Charles Garfield
"Peak performers want more than merely to win the next game. They see all the way to the championship. They have a long-range goal that inspires commitment and action."
________________________________________                                                                                               Burt Nanus
"There is no more powerful engine driving an organization toward excellence and long-range success than an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future, widely shared."
________________________________________                                                                                         Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
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Father Theodore Hesburgh
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
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“Some spend their entire life climbing a latter only to discover at the top that it is leaning against the wrong building. Determine where you are going before you start climbing.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?”
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Charles Handy
"The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world—not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul."
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 John Scully
"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
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Kenneth Labich
Don't underestimate the power of a vision. McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc, pictured his empire long before it existed, and he saw how to get there. He invented the company motto — 'Quality, service, cleanliness and value' — and kept repeating it to employees for the rest of his life."
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T.E. Lawrence
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible."
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Merlin R. Lybbert
“An enterprising turkey gathered the flock together and, following instructions and demonstrations, taught them how to fly. All afternoon they enjoyed soaring and flying and the thrill of seeing new vistas. After the meeting, all of the turkeys walked home.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
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Sir Ernest Hall
"To be a successful entrepreneur one needs a vision of greatness for one's work. If we dream extravagantly we will be inspired to forge a reality beyond the straight jacket of practicalities. There is a profound connection between art and enterprise which allows businesses to overcome the limitations of their existing visions."
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Karl Albrecht
"In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers."
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Robert F. Kennedy
“Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ These men moved the world, and so can we all.”
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 Ronald Reagan
“Trust, but verify.”
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T.S. Eliot
“Those who trust us educate us.”
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 Robert Service
“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”
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Joyce Brothers
“The best proof of love is trust.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-trust is the first secret of success”
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T.S. Eliot
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many.”
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Cardinal De Retz
“A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.”
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George MacDonald
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”
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Ernest Hemingway
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
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Thomas Fuller
“If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.”
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Aesop
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
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James Madison
“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
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William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
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Garth Henrichs
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
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Jerome Blattner
“A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
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D. Elton Trueblood
“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”
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“It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.”
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Agatha Christie
“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.”
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 E.M. Forster
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
________________________________________                                                                                                    Ron Nesen
“Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.”
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 Friedrich Nietzsche
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
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“Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.”
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 Samuel Johnson
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
________________________________________                                                                                       Mother Teresa
“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.”
________________________________________                                                                                  Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”
________________________________________                                                                                                 Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don't lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your way.”
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 Graham Greene
“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself”
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Frank Crane
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.”
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Walter Anderson
“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”
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Psalms 37:3
“Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.”
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Brian Tracy
“The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between; the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.”
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Lord Chesterfield
“Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.”
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Eric Hoffer
“Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.”
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Booker T. Washington
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
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Demosthenes
“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.”
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John Akers
“Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.”
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Jean de La Fontaine
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.”
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Disraeli
"A precedent embalms a principle."
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William Somerset Maugham
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer”
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 T.S. Eliot
“A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.”
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"Details done daily determine the difference."
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Henry James
“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”
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Anthony J. D'Angelo
“Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.”
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 Theodore Bikel
“I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.”
________________________________________                                                                                          Lorna Luft
“There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.”
______________________________________                                                                        Robin Fox
"A meal is about civilizing children. It's about teaching them to be a member of their culture."
________________________________________                                                                                    George F. Will
"The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children"
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 Ellen Goodman
“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.”
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Simeon Strunsky
"A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar."
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 Irving Kristol
“People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.”
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Winston Churchill
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril”
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Jose Bergamin
“Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing”
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Susan Lieberman
“Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.”
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Gandhi
"It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives."
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Colossians 2:8
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
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Dalai Lama
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
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1 Peter 1:18
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.”
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“Family traditions are the glue that binds one generation to another. They give kids and parents something to look forward to, as well as something to count on…throughout the year.”
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Thomas Carlyle
"What an enormous magnifier is tradition!  How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it."
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"Family traditions are a means of passing down the heritage from the past to the future.  They serve as a bond between parent and child, so that a happy home life can be experienced and passed on from one generation to another."
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G. K. Chesterton
“What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it”
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
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 2 Thessalonians 3:6
“Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.”
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"Family traditions serve as a uniting force for family members as they go through life. These memories are points that people can depend upon and associate with happiness and love throughout their lives."
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“Traditions. Those little rituals passed down from generation to generation that help shape your family by creating a sense of unity, warmth and closeness. They create memories that fill your mind with peace, love, happiness, and security.”
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Tradition Defined
“1. The handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, etc. from generation to generation by word of mouth or by practice. 2. A long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting. 3. Acts repeated so often they become almost automatic.”
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 Nancy Gibbs
“Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.
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Brigham Young
"Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare…The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood."
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 Buddha
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
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George Q. Cannon
“The greatest obstacle that has ever opposed the spread of truth and the diffusion of correct principles is the traditions of the people. So potent is their influence and so much importance is there attached to them that truth is but seldom received, even when supported by the best of reasons and evidence, if it comes in contact with them. They are set up as a standard or criterion by which every new principle or idea must be measured and judged; and whether they be true or false, correct or incorrect, by its agreement or disagreement with them must it be accepted or rejected. Every advocate of truth, whether religious or scientific, has experienced this…”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Lost time is never found again.”
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Psalms 89:47
“Remember how short my time is…”
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“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday”
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William Shakespeare
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
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 Susan Taylor
“We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.”
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William Shakespeare
“Time is the justice that examines all offenders.”
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 Martin Luther King
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
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Alice Bloch
“We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”
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 Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.”
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“Better late than never, but never late is better”
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 Leonardo da Vinci
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
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Bertrand Russell
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
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 Margaret Bonnano
“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time”
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“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
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“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
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James Taylor
“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.”
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 Anthony Rapp
“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”
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Mason Cooley
“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
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 Scottish Proverb
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
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“Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.”
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Agathon
“This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.”
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“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.”
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William Penn
"Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst."
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Lavater
"The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time."
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“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”
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John Archibald Wheeler
“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” 
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 Henry David Thoreau
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
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Dion Boucicault
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
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 Ambrose Bierce
“Day, n.  A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”  
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Louis Hector Berlioz
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
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 John Wooden
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
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Dario Fo
“Know how to live the time that is given you.”
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 Roger Babson
“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”
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 Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
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Willaim Penn
“Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.” 
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 Elbert Hubbard
“If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.”
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Thomas J. Watson
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
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 Adam Hochschild
“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.”
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“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”
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“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
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John F. Kennedy
“We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.”
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Malcolm Forbes
“There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.”
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“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
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 Josh Billings
“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”
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John Randolph
“Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
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Leonard Bernstein
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
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 Andy Warhol
“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”
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Charles F. Kettering
“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
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Peter F. Drucker
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
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Jim Rohn
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
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“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future”
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Benjamin Franklin
"Dost thou love life?  Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
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 Roger Wilcox
“Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may.  We use what we will.  We waste what we will.  But we can never get back a day.”
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