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WEST |
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Life |
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy
for those who think. –
Jean de la Bruyere
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Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after
layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
– J.G. Hunekar
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to
achieve it through not dying. –
Woody Allen
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Happiness |
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Lead me in the centre of thy silence to fill my heart
with songs. –
Rabindranath Tagore
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They must often change who would be constant in happiness
or wisdom. –
Confucius
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Happiness is a continuous
creative activity. – Baba Amte
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the
thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D.
Roosevelt
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One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.
–
La Rochefoucauld
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking
makes it so. – William Shakespeare
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Beliefs, Values |
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We believe in self creation. That's why
Buddhists
believe in the Four Noble
Truths. –
Dalai Lama
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To achieve self-liberation and nirvana you need to perform
your duties without expecting any reward for it.
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Hinduism
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Greater
is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.
– Jesus Christ
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Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason,
lest our children should copy our misdeeds.
–
Juvenal
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There is no real excellence in all this world which
can be separated from right living.
– David
Starr Jordan
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The universe is completely balanced and in perfect
order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.
–
Brian Tracy
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Character, Personality |
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Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest
even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own
passions. –
Sri Aurobindo
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Conduct yourself in this world, as if you are here to
stay forever; prepare for eternity as if you have to die tomorrow.
– Muhammad
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He who merely knows right principles is not equal to
him who loves them. –
Confucius
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is
not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but
it is made in the small ones. – Churchill,
Winston
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort, but were he stands at times of challenge and
controversy. – Marin Luter King
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Knowledge, Wisdom |
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For knowledge add a little every day, for wisdom
erase a little every day. –
Lao Tzu
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones
ignorance. –
Confucius
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We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the
purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and
origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise
in a person's mind, his or her
quest for knowledge begins. – Swami
Tejomayananda
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Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every
day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
– Elber Hubbard
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The most important thing in terms of your circle of
competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've
defined the perimeter.
–
Warren Buffett
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Super-competence is more objectionable than
incompetence.
– Peter's Observation, Murphy's
Law
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Achievement,
Winning, Fulfillment |
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Though he should conquer a thousand men in the
battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer
himself is the noblest victor. –
Buddha
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He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
– Lao Tzu
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The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.
– Muhammad
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to
you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for
anything. –
Harry S. Truman
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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to
become the best that you can become.
– Harold Taylor
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of
children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of
success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
–
Theodore Roosevelt
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Success,
Failure |
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If you really want everything, then give
up everything. –
Lao Tzu
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He is able who thinks he is able.
– Buddha
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By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may
possess. –
Rabindranath Tagore
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the
failing person doesn't like to do.
– Edison,
Thomas
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Even if at first you do succeed, you will still have
to work hard to stay there.
– Richard C.
Miller
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Fail
often to succeed sooner.– Tom Kelley
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Problem Solving |
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Desires are the cause suffering. If desire, which
lies at the route of all human passion, can be removed, then passion
will die out and all human suffering will be ended.
–
Buddhism
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He who
wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Everything will settle in its own place
automatically. –
Lao Tzu
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For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil,
there is one striking at the root.
– Henry
David Thoreau
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
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Problems are just opportunities in their work
clothes. - Henry Kaisers
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Leadership |
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When Master rules, people cannot make note of his
existence. –
Lao Tzu
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We have to be the change we want in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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To govern is to be correct. If you set an example by
being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?
–
Confucius
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Leadership is done from in front. Never ask others to
do what you, if challenged, would not be willing to do yourself.
–
Xenophon
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No person can be a great leader unless he takes
genuine joy in the success of those under him.
– W.A. Nanc
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their
own backyard. If you have a yes-man working for you, one of you is
redundant. –
Colin Powell
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