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- Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
- Elizabeth Harrison
- Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
- Goethe
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar
- The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
- Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
- The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
- Nelson Boswell
- In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
- Stanislaus J. Lec
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William F. Claire
- The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
- Rensis Likert
- You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
- Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him gazing out toward the sunset or picking his nose?'
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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