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When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

Crisis, Two, Word

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Courage, True, Cannot

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, True

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi

Justice, Conscience, Higher

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

Life, Family, Respect

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Past, Blame

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda

Teacher, Spiritual, Soul

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

History, Thought, Find

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

End, Friend, Lost

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

Life, Help, Everything

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

Travel, Laugh, May

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Government, Made, Moral

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi

Simple, Humility, Enough

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Two, Getting

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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid

Horse, Fast, Catch

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear, Care, Person

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln

Business, Made, Try

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Power, Fear

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Together, Same

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

Nothing, Saying, Keep

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

Government, End, Big

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Learn, Hold

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

Someone, Thoughts, Else

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain

Thoughts, Away, Heels

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

Men, Art, Alone

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark Twain

Special, Effort, Stop

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

Time, Men, Yourself

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Business, True

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Sweet, Rose, Call

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain

Good, Person, Ourselves

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