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If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
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Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
- the Woody Allen movie Casino Royale
The four most important words in any marriage...
"I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know, I don't care,
and it doesn't make any difference!
- Albert Einstein
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
- Malcolm S. Forbes (wealthy publisher)
Any idiot can face a crisis.
It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus
Any man who wants to be president
is either an egomaniac or crazy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
- Henry David Thoreau
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- William Shakespeare
I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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