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- A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
- Joseph Rickaby
- Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
- It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
- Latin Proverb
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