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Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail.
Without it, nothing can succeed.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
You cannot divorce religious belief and public service.
I've never detected any conflict between
God's will and my political duty.
If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
When a man assumes a public trust
he should consider himself a public property.
- Thomas Jefferson
The time comes upon every public man
when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Abraham Lincoln
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage
which in the past has been brought to public life
is not as likely to insist upon or regard
that quality in its chosen leaders today -
and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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