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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Good, Power

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Time, Thankful

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Fool, Cannot

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Waiting

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Great, Greatness, Born

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Nothing, Hard

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Happiness, Others, Cause

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan

Made, Problem, Lives

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

Strong, Broken, Everyone

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Mother, School, Ignorance

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

Enough, Others, Horse

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Strength, Character

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Live, Find, Suffering

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life, Time, Angry

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Chanakya

Work, Successful, Yourself

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

Stars, Looking, Gutter

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

Happen, Wish, Others

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin

Work, Time, Why

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln

Chance, Prepare

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln

Success, Great, Others

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin

Time, Job, Someone

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Rest, Astonish, Gratify

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Rest, Astonish, Gratify

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

Work, Character, Hard

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln

Coffee, Bring, Tea

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Used, Quality, Excellence

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Life, Humor, Laughter

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Nature, Today, Human

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

Faith, Passion, Guilty

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Live, Angry, Why

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