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Reveal
not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may
hereafter become an enemy. And
bring not all the mischief you are able upon an enemy, for he may one day become
your friend.
Sainte-Beauve, Charles Augustin
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Saint-Exupery
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb you; let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Nothing is wanting to him who possesses God. God alone suffices.
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People
are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Meditations from a Simple Path
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
We
need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is
the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers,
grass—grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in
silence . . . we need silence
to be able to touch souls.
We now have the result of a huge experiment in human nature that teaches a critical lesson about social progress. The lesson emerges from the 1996 welfare reform, the mandated end of bilingual education in California, and seven years of school reform in Texas. It is this: if you demand more of people—if you make them more responsible for their own behavior—you will get more from them. Their lives will improve.
Sand, George
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Santayana, George,
(1863-1952), writer
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Sarte, Jean-Paul (1905-1980), philosopher,
writer, and critic
We are our choices.
Savage, Robert C.
If we could forget
our troubles as easily as we forget our blessings, how different things would
be.
Life Lessons, Galahad Books
Savant, Marilyn Vos
The truly expressive man doesn’t speak with his hands. He speaks with his heart.
Schubert
Let us take men as they are, not as they ought to be.
Schumpeter, Joseph A.
The entrepreneurial function, he wrote, “does not essentially consist in either inventing anything or otherwise creating the conditions which the enterprise exploits. It consists in getting things done” right down to “making a success of a particular kind of sausage or toothbrush.”
Schurz, Carl
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Schwab, Charles,
Steel Magnate
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth grater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Schwartz, David Joseph, writer
The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built a brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments.
Schwartz, Tony
If it works, copy it.
Schweitzer
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others—something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Example is leadership.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Scott, Sir Walter
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
- Marmion (1808)
Seeger, Pete
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgment.
If
you are wise,
you will mingle one thing with the other
not hoping without doubt,
not doubting without hope.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptations resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they are brought every day to the shrift.
Quaedam iura non scripta sed
omnibus scriptis certiora sunt. (Some laws are unwritten but they are better
established than all written ones.)
- Seneca Rhetor
Sen T'san
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find the meaning; Pursue the light and you lose its source. Look inward, and in a flash you will conquer the apparent and the void. All come from mistaken views. There is no need to seek the truth, only stop having views.
Setanti
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Shakespeare, W.
"our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt"
This
above all; to thine own self be true
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Polonius, in Hamlet
Prince of Denmark
How
far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene I; [Portia]
Love looks not with
the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I; [Helena]
Strong reasons make strong actions.
There
is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
- Brutus, in Shakespeare's, Julius Caesar
There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Good name in man and
woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
Go
to your bosom;
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
- Isabella, in Shakespeare's Measure for
Measure
Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Shinn, Florence Scovel
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Sills, Beverly
You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.
Simmons,
Charles
Seek advice from those only whom you deem competent to give it, and then you need not hesitate to follow it. Receive good advice gracefully, asked or unasked.
Smith, Alfred Emanuel
Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Smith, Margaret Chase (1897-1995), U.S. congresswoman and senator
This I do believe above all, especially in my times of greater discouragement, that I must believe—that I must believe in my fellow men—that I must believe in myself—and I must believe in God—if life is to have any meaning.
Smith, Sydney
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Sockman, Ralph
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of—for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
I
do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take
thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the
greatest improvement of the soul. I
tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as
private.
- Plato's The Death of
Socrates
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
Solzenitsyn, Alexander
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
Kindness will always attract kindness.
One word frees us
all of the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Southerland, R., Detective
Dade County
Never give an armed robber the excuse he is looking for to work you over.
Southey, Robert
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Spock, Benjamin
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling
before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded
it in time.
- A Capsule History of Conservation, When the Bluebird Sings in the
Leamonade Springs
Steinway,
Charles H.
I cannot commend to a business house any artificial plan for making men producers—any scheme for driving them into business building. You must lead them through their self-interest. It is this alone that will keep them keyed up to the full capacity of their productiveness.
Stinnett, Cashie
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
You
cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish.
And
if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Streisand, Barbara
At the Golden Globe presentations, Barbara Streisand received an
award for lifetime achievement. During
her acceptance speech, she said:
Someone
asked me recently if they should be an actor.
I said if you have to ask, then the answer is no!
Because the only reason to choose that life for yourself is because you
feel passionate about it. Because
you have no other choice!
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do and trust it.
Strunk, William
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subject only in outline, but that every word tell.
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays,
Publisher of The New York Times between 1935
and 1961
A man's judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Never promise more than you can perform.
The
wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Take as many half minutes as you can get, but never talk more than half a minute without pausing and giving others an opportunity to strike in. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Vision
is the art of seeing things invisible.
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