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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Confidence, Give, Before

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

Understand, Enough, Simply

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

Morning, Tomorrow, Revolution

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Work, Job

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

Life, God, Give

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

Daily, Why, Often

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Friend, Liberty

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Heidi Klum

Positive, Yourself, Important

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes

Power, Hurt, Wish

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

Country, Poverty, Wealth

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education, Time, Nothing

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness, True, Done

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Friendship, Time

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

Others, Wonderful, Makes

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

Success, Great, Others

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine

Keep, Order, Discourage

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Health, Society, Sick

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Best, Friend, Wishes

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Strong, Character

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Thought, Thoughts

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton

Person, Same, Makes

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Give, Chance

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Life, Art, Children

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

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, Work, Anger

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

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln

Politics, Done, Pretty

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Age, Yourself

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