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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Life is based on perception,
Perception is based on opinion,
Opinion is based on thought,
Thought comes from the mind.
Change your mind, change your life.
The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.