Asking for what you want and need from others.
Speaking truth, even thought it might create conflict or tension.
Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe."
--Barbara De Angelis
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."--Napoleon Bonaparte
"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."--Baltasar Gracian
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."--Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"The person who thinks too little usually talks too much."--Anonymous
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."--Albert Einstein
"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness."--Margaret Miller
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."--Chinese Proverb
"No journey is too great when one finds what one seeks."--Eddie Murphy, "Coming to America"
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."--Booker T. Washington
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."--John Holt
"It is easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane."--M. Grundler
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."--David Russell
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."--Margaret Thatcher
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."--Aldous Huxley
"Foresight is knowing when to shut your mouth before someone suggests it."--Anonymous
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."--Ernest Hemingway
"A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."--Jane Heard
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to apppreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."--George Eliot
"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."--Orison S. Marder
"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."--Roger Babson
"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another."--John Burroughs
"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view."--Unknown
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."--Arthur Schopenhauer
"The most effective answer to an insult is silence."--Anonymous
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."--Gail Godwin
"Passion is the trigger of success."--Unknown
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."--Thomas Paine
"Desires are the pulses of the soul."--Manton
"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."--Aesop
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."--Richard L. Evans
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."--Dorthy Nevill
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."--Bertrand Russel
"Many a man's tongue broke his nose."--Seamus MacManus
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."--Joseph Conrad
"Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control."--Anonymous
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'"--Erich Fromm
"Only those who will risk to go far can possibly find out how far one can go."--T.S. Eliot
"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself."--Plato
"I have no regrets because I know I did my best- all I could do."--Midori Ito
"There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better."--Unknown
"We are not separate from spirit, we are in it."--Plotinus
"The greatest power is often simple patience."--E. Joseph Cossman
"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."--Frank Herbert
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."--Buddha
"Hell is other people."-- Jean-Paul Sartre
"He who thinks by the inch and talkes by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot."--Unknown
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."--Gandhi
"Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought."--Kin Hubbard
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."--Josh Billings
"So far the only successful substitute for brains is silence."--Anonymous
"Pick battles big enough to matter; small enough to win."--Jonathan Kozol
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And is doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."--Muhammad Ali
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."--Henry David Thoureu
"We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility."--Newton Minow
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."--Stephen Covey
"An excuse is often substituted for reason."--Anonymous
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give- which is everything."--Anonymous
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."--Leo Tolstoy
"War does not determine who is right- only who is left."--Bertrand Russell
"Stupid people always think that they are right. Wise people listen to advice."--Proverbs 12:15
"Truth is not determined by majority vote."--Doug Gwyn
"Don't wrestle with pigs; you get dirty and they enjoy it."--Anonymous
"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life."--Samurai Maxim
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."--Mark Twain
"The truth is more important than the facts."--Frank Lloyd Wright
"Truth fears no questions."--Anonymous
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."--Les Brown
"It takes two people to speak truth- One to speak, and another to hear."--Henry David Thoreau
"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."--Ed Howe
"To change one's life:
- Start immediately,
- Do it flamboyantly,
- No exceptions."
--William James
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."--John Updike
"Know what you want. Become Your real self."--David Harold Fink
"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."--Haile Selassie
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."--Samuel Johnson
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable."--Anonymous
"A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times."--Anonymous
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."--Anonymous
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."--William J.H. Boetcker
"They talk most who have the least to say."--Mathew Prior
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."--William Saroyan
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."--Booker T. Washington
"The wise learn many things from their enemies."--Aristophanes, "Birds" (414 BC)
"Fill yourself with desire and see only illusions. Empty yourself of desire and see the truth behide lifes mysteries."--Chinese Proverb
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head- that's assault, not leadership."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."--Wilson Mizner
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."--Anonymous
"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."--Michael Korda
"The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them."--Unknown
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."--Michel de Montaigne
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh- at yourself."--Ethel Barrymoore
"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing."--Anonymous
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."--W.C. Fields
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."--Alistair Cooke
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."--William Hazlitt
"You know you're getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate."--Unknown
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."--Anne Landers
"A man is known by the company he avoids."--Anonymous
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Common sense is not so common."--Voltaire
"The principles you live by created the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world."--Blaine Lee
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake..."--Albert Einstein
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."--Sun Tzu
"If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I ment to say."--Unknown
"To change and to change for the better are two different things."--German Proverb
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."--Vidal Sassoon
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."--Richard Bach
"If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business."--Jeanne Holm
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."--Mark Twain
"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got."--Janis Joplin
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."--Plato
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."--Unknown
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."--Thomas Jones
"I don't want to live- I want to love first, and live incidentaly."--Zelda Fitzgerald
"Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield."
--Unknown, Epitaph for a Loved One
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"One day at a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."--Ida Scott Taylor
"A lie gets halfway around the world before truth has a chance to put its pants on."--Sir Winston Churchill
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."--Jimi Hendrix
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."--General George Patton
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."--Harold Taylor
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."--Helen Keller
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."--Franklin Jones
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."--Aldous Huxley
"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
--Swedish Proverb
"Nothing is so strong as gentlness and nothing so gentle as real strength."--Ralph W. Sockman
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intellegence. There's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't seem to work."--Gallagher
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."--Kahlil Gibran
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."--Unknown
"Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals;
Cherish the music that stirs in your heart,
The beauty that forms in your mind,
The loveliness that drapes
your purest thoughts,
If you remain true to them,
Your world will at last be built."--James Allen
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