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You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.
If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.
If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.
It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.
Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.
We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.
Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.
The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
We are apart and alone, as we must, but at least we are alone together.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.