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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn

Leadership, Good, Help

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
Dalai Lama

Live, Together, Might

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

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin

Home, Food, Mind

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

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

Large, Contradict, Contain

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

Against, Read, Risk

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

Life, Good, Playing

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill

Peace, Good, War

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

Someone, Tell, Communist

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

Family, May, Cannot

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Good, Words, Talking

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller

Cannot, Light, Between

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Friend, May

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Busy, Real

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Hatred, Blind

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

Money, May, Opinion

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

Fear, Care, Done

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

Book, Moral, Books

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Wise, Themselves, Contradict

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Evil, Give

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi

Worth, Rights, Duty

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship, Woman, May

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

Reason, Against, Read

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare

Good, Woman, She

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Men, Power, Government

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Rich, Rather, Leave

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Wisdom, Done

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Evil, Give

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
Yannick Noah

Good, Positive, Karma

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