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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

Forget, Made, Learned

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

Work, Give, Through

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa

Love, Home, Put

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

Nature, God, Friend

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Life, Strong, Young

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Joel Osteen

Life, Positive, Attitude

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strong, Woman, Put

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer

Karma, Treat, React

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler

Long, Matter, Door

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald Reagan

Success, Leave, Welfare

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

Happy, Woman, Human

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

Love, Good, Hate

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale

Life, Work, Family

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson

Life, Pain, Character

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Time, Good, Men

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Patriotism, Hate, Violence

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

Creativity, Secret, Knowing

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Respect, Matter

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Live, Why, Almost

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

Time, Knowledge, Mind

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

Dog, Call, Four

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X

Time, Adversity, Defeat

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, End, Mean

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

Time, Person, May

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

Find, Far, Risk

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Education, Between, Able

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon

Happiness, Enjoy, Makes

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln

Fight, Matter, Seem

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou

Love, Respect, Self

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, Art, Before

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