“Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.”
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“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
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“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
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“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.”
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“Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.”
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“The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed”
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“Wise men change, fools stay the same.”
“Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.”
“Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.”
“Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know”
“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.”
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself”
“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
“In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.”
“Fools multiply when wise men are silent.”
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
“If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.”
“A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.”
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.”
“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.”