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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mahatma Gandhi
Problem
,
Between
,
Difference
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
Freedom
,
Frightened
,
Involves
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
Small
,
Return
,
Greater
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare
Him
,
Show
,
Himself
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Together
,
Shall
,
Indeed
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi
Sacrifice
,
Law
,
Effective
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes
Faith
,
Trust
,
Hope
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare
Soul
,
Honor
,
Sin
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Great
,
Learned
,
Listen
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare
Dangerous
,
Temptation
,
Virtue
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
Government
,
Able
,
Lives
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
Love
,
Mother
,
Help
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt
Possible
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life
,
Simple
,
Pretty
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Allyson Felix
Trust
,
God
,
Important
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley
Long
,
After
,
Chance
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn
Cannot
,
Sometimes
,
Decisions
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage
,
Happiness
,
Find
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
Character
,
May
,
Means
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
Great
,
Cake
,
Empire
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
Life
,
Find
,
Ourselves
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
Muhammad Ali
Jesus
,
Away
,
Around
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
Future
,
Live
,
Past
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
Live
,
Regret
,
Regrets
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yourself
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison
Parents
,
Person
,
Relatives
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil Gibran
Dreams
,
Men
,
Among
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
Put
,
Difficult
,
Position
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Life
,
Enjoy
,
Learned
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony
Person
,
Sometimes
,
Guilty
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