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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.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, Parents

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya

Happiness, Friends, Above

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness, Good, Giving

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

Person, Him, Enough

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

Put, Immortal, Crown

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley

Best, Positive, Attitude

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Able, Star, Chaos

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon

Peace, Saying, Chance

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde

America, Young, Themselves

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom, Means, India

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Evil, Enough

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman

Love, Home, Woman

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
Erma Bombeck

Life, Women, Sex

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde

While, Actor, Ask

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato

Enough, Earth, Virtue

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. 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.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, True

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Crazy, Enough

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

Peace, Great, Country

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius

Truth, Art, Anger

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali

Rich, Wish, Away

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

Life, Great, Wise

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Best, Alone, Failure

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Life, Peace, God

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

May, Living, Soul

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Peace, Best

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil Gibran

Yourself, Truly

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Star, Within, Chaos

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey Hepburn

Nothing, Question, Since

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato

Good, Strength, Others

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