Quotes - Various Authors
- Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
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- Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident,and riches take wing,
only character endures.
-Horace Greeley
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- The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate
ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner
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- The Supreme Court is really the keeper of the conscience. And the
conscience is the Constitution.
-William O. Douglas
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- Let us live so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
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- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
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- Our character is the sum of our decisions.
- unknown
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- We should every night call ourselves to an account:
What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed?
What temptation resisted?
What virtue acquired?
Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the
shrift.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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- Everyone has failings, all humans have needs and temptations and
stresses. If at the end one can say, this person used to the limit the
powers their creator granted: and was worthy of respect, then that
life has been lived will.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to
feel important. They do not mean to do harm. . . they are absorbed in the
endless struggle to think well of themselves.
- T.S. Eliot
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- Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity,
intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other
two will kill you.
- Warren Buffett
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- Keep a sense of humor: Life is too short to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
