Famous Author Unknown Quotations

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"Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy."
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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."
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"Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness."
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"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."
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"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees"
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"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes"
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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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"It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside."
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"It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it."
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"Education is not received. It is achieved."
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"Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others."
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"Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate."
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"Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter."
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"Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health."
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"Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough."
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"No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing."
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"You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."
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"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."
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"The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion."
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"A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion."
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"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."
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"A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it."
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"The deadliest contagion is majority opinion."
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"The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts."
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"The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense."
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"The best way to end a war is not to begin it."
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"The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs."
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"One thing you can give and still keep is your word."
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"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time."
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"Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done."
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"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate."
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"The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry."
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"A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."
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"A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune."
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"A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one."
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"A patient man is one who can put up with himself."
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"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith."
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"Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue."
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"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else."
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"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
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"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement."
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"Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience."
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"Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it."
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"Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening."
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"Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world."
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"When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are."
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"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words."
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"What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir."
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"He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth."
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"People who know the least always argue the most."
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"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
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"If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves."
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"If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure."
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"Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand."
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"Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it."
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"Hate pollutes the mind."
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"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."
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"Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances."
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"Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life."
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"Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it."
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"Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them."
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"Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words."
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"Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck."
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"The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe."
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"'What made the deepest impression upon you?' inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, 'when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?' ---- 'The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls,' Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, 'was where in the world did all that water come from?'"
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"'Oh,' replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, 'he told me to come and see you.'"
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"'Luck' is a very good word if you put a P before it."
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"A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can."
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"A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one."
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"A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with."
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"A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain."
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"A man doesnt want a child he is a dead beat dad. A woman doesnt want a child she is pro choice"
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"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, 'And whom did you consult before coming to me?'
'Only the village druggist,' was the answer.
'And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?' asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
'Oh,' replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, 'he told me to come and see you.'"
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"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security."
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"Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people."
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"Age withers only the outside."
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"After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."
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"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."
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"An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation"
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"Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years."
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"Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself."
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"Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it."
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"Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them."
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"Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world."
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"Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners."
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"Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness"
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."
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"Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury."
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"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own."
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"Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded."
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"Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both"
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"Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind."
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"Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to 'get by.'"
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"Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two"
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"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough."
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"Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly."
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"Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things."
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"Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog."
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