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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts that one might have,
beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser
than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich

1. Love ♥ is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your
own.
- Robert A Heinlein
2. A good deed is the best prayer.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
3. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran
4. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
- Publilius Syrus
5. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca
6. Failure is an event, never a person.
- William D. Brown
7. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Marthe Troly-Curtin
8. The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly
part with all his money for health.
- Charles Caleb Colton
9. Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.
- Cicero
10. Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
- St. Francis de Sales
11. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
- Seneca
12. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu (attributed)
13. I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
- Coleman Cox
14. The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
- Sakyong Mipham
15. Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- Michel de Montaigne

16. It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
- Thomas Carlyle
18. If you’re looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it
elsewhere.
- Malcolm Forbes
19. No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
20. If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
21. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius
22. Hatred is self-punishment.
- Hosea Ballou
23. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- Ovid
24. Little strokes fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
25. A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
- Erasmus
26. Life must be lived with love and humour: love to understand it, and humour to put up
with it.
- Carlos Fisas
27. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
- James Keller
28. What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer
believe you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
29. Let the sole worry of your parents be that you might become ill.
- Confucius

30. Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
- Anonymous
31. Little things affect little minds.
- Benjamin Disraeli
32. It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
- Jules Renard
33. Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
- Elbert Hubbard
34. You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can
prevent them from building nests in your hair.
- Chinese Proverb
35. You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to
control and some things are not.
- Epictetus
36. Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
- Kahlil Gibran
37. There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
- Marlene Dietrich
38. Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.
- Anonymous
39. A good neighbour is a found treasure.
- Chinese Proverb
40. Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
- Anthony of Padua
41. Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
- Buddha
42. A man who makes a mistake and does not correct it is making another mistake.
- Confucius
43. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
44. Politeness is the flower of humanity.
- Joseph Joubert

45. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
46. One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
- Sigmund Freud
47. Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one
spot.
- Josh Billings
48. It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
49. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
50. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
51. It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
52. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
53. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
54. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
- Henry Ford
55. Being bored is an insult to oneself.
- Jules Renard
56. The present is an eternal now.
- Abraham Cowley
57. A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every
pebble in the road.
58. Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
59. Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

- W. Somerset Maugham
60. As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself
to circumstances.
- Confucius
61. The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
- Charles Dickens
62. We work to earn our leisure.
- Aristotle
63. We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.
- William James
64. It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
- George Eliot
65. The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
- Leo Aikman
66. The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
- Pliny the Elder
67. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
- Lao Tzu
68. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
69. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
- Alexander Pope
70. If you seek revenge, first dig two graves.
- Confucius
71. There is no defeat except from within.
- Elbert Hubbard
72. The good thing about being old is that you don’t have to worry about dying young.
- Stephen King
73. Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

74. We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” unless
we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
- Anonymous
75. It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
- Publilius Syrus
76. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Seneca
77. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
78. Practice is the best of all instructors.
- Publilius Syrus
79. I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.
- Matthew Quick
80. Music is the soundtrack of your life. ♫
- Dick Clark
81. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
- Benjamin Franklin
82. If a man thinks he is indispensable, let him put his hand in a bucket of water and
watch the hole that is left when he removes his hand from the water.
- Anonymous
83. Life well spent is long.
- Leonardo da Vinci
84. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
85. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
86. Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
87. The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
- Luther Burbank
88. The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

89. We are all of us richer than we think we are.
- Michel de Montaigne
90. Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
- Josh McDowell
91. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
- John Milton
92. Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie
93. The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colourless when unbroken.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
94. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until
brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell
95. From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
- Publilius Syrus
96. What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
- Bertrand Russell
97. Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. McIntyre
98. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
99. Meditation is the action of silence.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
100. Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.
- Mason Cooley
101. Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of
good looks.
- Charles Dickens
102. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the
body.
- Joseph Addison

103. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
104. Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
- Rudyard Kipling
105. The world has enough for every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
106. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is
locked up in the safe.
- Peter De Vries
107. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take
our breath away.
- Maya Angelou
108. A good example has twice the value of good advice.
- Albert Schweitzer
109. The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
110. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Jonathan Swift
111. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
- St. Teresa of Calcutta
112. It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- Seneca
113. The art of life is to live in the present moment.
- Emmet Fox
114. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
115. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Helen Keller
116. No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man
is so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel but his own. He that is
taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Ben Jonson

117. Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
118. Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for
yourself.
119. There is no fun in medicine, but there’s a heck of a lot of medicine in fun.
- Josh Billings
120. Revenge does us more harm than the injury itself.
- John Lubbock
121. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
122. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns,
oblivious to the rose.
- Kahlil Gibran
123. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to
us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
124. A smile is the shortest distance between two people. ☺
- Victor Borge
125. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
126. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the
source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
127. Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.
- Jerold Panas
128. Someone else is happy with less than you have.
- Anonymous
129. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
130. There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
- French Proverb

131. Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
132. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him
for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
133. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi
134. The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would
never be found out.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
135. Never let success go to your head, or failure to your heart.
- Dr. Mardy Grothe
136. It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they
will help us.
- Epicurus
137. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
138. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of
sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
139. Listen to the silence. It has so much to say.
- Rumi
140. Don’t be afraid to take big steps. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
141. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
- Kahlil Gibran
142. Eat to live, don’t live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
143. It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
- Publilius Syrus
144. Never look down on someone unless you’re helping them up.
- Jesse Jackson

145. Example is more powerful than precept.
- Aesop
146. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
147. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best
relationship.
- Buddha
148. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
149. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo
150. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
151. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day
brings forth.
- Horace
152. He who won’t be advised can’t be helped.
- German Proverb
153. The past is a nice place to visit, but you don’t want to live there.
- Dr. Mardy Grothe
154. Never trust someone who lies to you. Never lie to someone who trusts you.
- Anonymous
155. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb
156. Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
- Mark Twain
157. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- Samuel Johnson
158. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past
centuries.
- Rene Descartes

159. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply
gives you courage.
160. Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
- Zig Ziglar
161. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
162. The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
- Plato
163. Character is destiny.
- Heraclitus
164. A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.
- Napoleon Hill
165. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Confucius
166. We teach others how to treat us.
- Anonymous
167. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but
saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope
168. Life commences not with birth, but with the onslaught of awareness.
- Frank Yerby
169. You can’t be more ready to speak than I am to hear.
- Charles Dickens
170. Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbours.
- Mignon McLaughlin
171. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell
172. All streams flow to the ocean because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its
power.
- Lao Tzu

173. I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into
things that I am most certain of the first time.
- Josh Billings
174. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the
longest practice, and at length it falls down from us without our notice, as a leaf from a
tree.
175. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Joseph Addison
176. Kind words don’t wear out the tongue.
- Danish Proverb
177. The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is
history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.
- Alice Morse Earle
178. To make mistakes is human, but to profit by them is divine.
- Elbert Hubbard
179. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Albert Einstein)
180. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson
181. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
- Francis Bacon
182. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
183. I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet.
- Helen Keller
184. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
- English Proverb
185. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
186. Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

187. Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
188. Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
- Winston Churchill
189. The best way to avoid punishment is to fear it.
- Chinese Proverb
190. Prevention is better than cure.
- Erasmus
191. Never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
192. Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
- Harriet Nelson
193. I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I
can do.
- Jana Stanfield
194. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
- Voltaire
195. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your
money.
- Anonymous
196. What you seek is seeking you.
- Rumi
197. Not the cry but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to fly and follow.
- Chinese Proverb
198. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
199. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the
company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
- Jonathan Swift
200. Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

201. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare
that they are difficult.
- Seneca
202. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out
by accident.
- Charles Lamb
203. Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
- Warren Buffet
204. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
205. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
- W. M. Lewis
206. Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it—for action has
magic grace and power in it.
- Goethe
207. With money you can buy a clock, but not time.
- Chinese Proverb
208. Money is a good servant but a bad master.
- English Proverb
209. A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
210. Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
- Maya Angelou
211. Forgive those who have hurt you in the past. But more than this, forgive yourself for
allowing them to hurt you.
- Anonymous
212. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
- Boris Pasternak
213. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare
214. Don’t agonize. Organize.
- Florence R. Kennedy

215. A man is not sick because he has an illness; he has an illness because he is sick.
- Chinese Proverb
216. A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
- Abraham Maslow
217. Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
- James M. Barrie
218. Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes
219. He knows not his own strength who has not met adversity.
- Ben Jonson
220. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
- Anonymous
221. A second chance doesn’t mean anything if you haven’t learned from your first
mistake.
- Zig Ziglar
222. Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
- Heywood Hale Brown
223. Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
- William Arthur Ward
224. Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
225. The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
226. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
- Rumi
227. Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
- Doris Day
228. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
- Charles Dickens
229. No one knows what he can do till he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

230. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
- Truman Capote
231. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
232. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- John Wooden
233. In the end, everything will be okay. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end.
- Fernando Sabino
234. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes
off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford
235. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens
to him.
- Aldous Huxley
236. Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in
this world.
- Helen Keller
237. I would prefer even to fail with honour than win by cheating.
- Sophocles
238. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
239. The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
240. Your mood shouldn’t dictate your manners.
- Turcois Ominek
241. The absolutely awesome incredible power of belief is the genie in your life.
- Eldon Taylor
242. When you think you can’t, revisit a previous triumph.
- Jack Canfield
243. Home is where the heart is.
- Pliny the Elder

244. The shortest answer is doing.
- George Herbert
245. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings
246. If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy,
practise compassion.
- Dalai Lama
247. The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot
believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw
248. The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
249. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
250. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love
what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
251. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself.
252. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
253. I failed my way to success.
- Thomas Edison
254. Solitude: a good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
- Josh Billings
255. Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
- William Arthur Ward
256. Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live
without.
- Rafael Ortiz
257. A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

258. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt
259. Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.
- Frank A. Clark
260. A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
- Joyce Maynard
261. The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one’s own
would be a sorry limitation.
- Andre Gide
262. The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more
things you will have to express gratitude for.
- Zig Ziglar
263. A man’s life is what his thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
264. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
265. Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
- C. S. Lewis
266. True wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a rich heart.
- Anonymous
267. Helping hands are better than praying lips.
268. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
- Ronald Reagan
269. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- H. G. Wells
270. Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less.
- C. S. Lewis
271. Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle
272. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
273. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
274. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Thomas Jefferson
275. Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
276. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same
person.
- Mignon McLaughlin
277. In calmness lies true pleasure.
- Victor Hugo
278. Experience is the teacher of all things.
- Julius Caesar
279. Comparison is the thief of joy.
- Theodore Roosevelt
280. Living well is the best revenge.
- George Herbert
281. Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
- Anonymous
282. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t
read.
- Mark Twain
283. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Kahlil Gibran
284. Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something
physical.
- Sophia Loren
285. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
286. Your habits will determine your quality of life.
- Denis Waitley

287. One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings
288. The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
- English Proverb
289. The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
290. The journey is the reward.
- Chinese Proverb
291. Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
292. The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
- Anonymous
293. A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.
- Anonymous
294. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing
point.
- C. S. Lewis
295. If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and
not as a goal.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
296. To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
297. Do not run after happiness, but seek to do good, and you will find that happiness
will run after you.
- James Freeman Clarke
298. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for
an instant?
299. Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
300. Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
- Jacques Maritain

301. Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side
you are used to is better than the one to come?
- Rumi
302. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to
attempt.
- William Shakespeare
303. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli
304. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
305. Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing
well too.
- Malcolm David Storey
306. Respect yourself and others will respect you.
- Confucius
307. I can live for two months on a good compliment.
- Mark Twain
308. Fortune favours the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur
309. It’s important to take criticism seriously—not personally.
- Hillary Clinton
310. Your value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.
- Anonymous
311. You cannot open a book without learning something.
- Confucius
312. Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
- Albert Einstein
313. An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.
- Thomas Edison
314. Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

315. The key to success is failure.
- Michael Jordan
316. Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
- Jean Baptiste Massieu
317. The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.
- Denis Waitley
318. It’s not what you are that is holding you back. It’s what you think you are not.
- Anonymous
319. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
320. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Sir Edmund Hillary
321. It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
- Josh Billings
322. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having a near-life
experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
323. Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one
would find fault with it.
- John Henry Newman
324. The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
- Bruce Lee
325. If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.
- Margaret Atwood
326. It is better to deserve without receiving, than to receive without deserving.
327. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
328. Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few words.
- Pythagoras

329. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say
something.
- Plato
330. A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.
- Marty Rubin
331. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes
332. The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
333. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
334. There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
335. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is
the team.
- Phil Jackson
336. Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure; it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
- Robert H. Schuller
337. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to
succeed.
- Napoleon Hill
338. Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
- Plato
339. You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.
- Joel Osteen
340. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
- Alexander Graham Bell
341. I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
342. It’s never crowded along the extra mile.
- Wayne W. Dyer
343. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius
344. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
345. Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson
afterward.
- Oscar Wilde
346. Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.
- Sonia Ricotti
347. Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
- Pythagoras
348. Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
349. There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.
- Euripides
350. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
351. He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
352. Happiness is a place between too much and too little.
- Finnish Proverb
353. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
354. The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
- William James
355. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
- Aristotle
356. A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
- Goethe
357. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope.
- Helen Keller
358. Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.

- Rumi
359. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
360. When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
361. Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
- Rumi
362. Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
- Ovid
363. If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
- Rumi
364. Life is such a great teacher that when you don’t learn a lesson, it will repeat it.
- Anonymous
365. Live to learn and you will learn to live.
- Portuguese Proverb
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