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1."Like a ten-speed bike, most of us have gears we do not use." -- Charles Schulz

2."Everyone must row with the oars he has." -- English proverb

3."When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." -- Ethiopian proverb

4."Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -- Joseph Addison

5."You can't win unless you know how to lose." -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

6."You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." -- Indira Gandhi

7."He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else." -- Benjamin Franklin

8."Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes

9."Don't worry about knowing people; just make yourself worth knowing." -- Unknown

10."If you have much, give your wealth. If you have little, give your heart." -- Arab proverb

11."An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." -- Cato the Elder

12."There is a great distance between said and done." -- Puerto Rican proverb

13."Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing." -- Aesop

14."Make friends before you need them." -- Unknown

15."Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Chinese proverb

16."The way to be nothing is to do nothing." -- Nathaniel Howe

17."If you were another person, would you like to be a friend of yours?" -- Unknown

18."To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." -- proverb

19."Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired." -- Mark Twain

20."Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." -- Henry Ford

21."Don't judge a book by its cover." -- English proverb

22."The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue." -- Unknown

23."You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." -- Unknown

24."If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." -- Unknown

25."You can encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou

26."We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will." -- Thomas Edison

27."We must be authors of the history of our age." -- Madeleine Albright

28."You can't unscramble eggs." -- John Pierpont Morgan

29."A book is like a garden carried in a pocket." -- Chinese proverb

30."No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it." -- George Washington Carver

31."We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

32."Choose your socks by their color and your friends by their character. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense. Choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."-- Unknown

33."Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration." -- Thomas Edison

34."Each life is like a letter of the alphabet. Alone it can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a great meaning." -- Unknown

35."Your children need your presence more than your presents." -- Jesse Jackson

36."A friend who lies for you may also lie against you." -- Unknown

37."The price of your hat isn't the measure of your brain." -- African-American Saying

38."The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer

39."We are wiser than we know." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

40."Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

41."People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

42."You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy Who'll decide where you go." -- Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

43."Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright." -- Benjamin Franklin

44."He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most." -- Thomas Fuller

45."Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- John Watson

46."The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers." -- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist

47."The sleeping fox catches no poultry." -- Benjamin Franklin

48."A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience." -- Elbert Hubbard

49."One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard

50."Statistically 100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." -- Wayne Gretsky

51."If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin

52."Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.…" -- Samuel Butler

53."You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." -- Henry Ford

54."This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down but the staying down." -- Mary Pickford

55."If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you." -- Andre Previn

56."We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg." -- Emily Dickinson

57."Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." -- Vernon Saunders Law

58."For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

59."Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it." -- W.C. Handy

60."To err is human, to forgive is divine." -- Alexander Pope

61."A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." --Bernard Meltzer

62."Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken. It always gets above falsehood as oil does above water." -- Miguel de Cervantes

63."Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy

64."My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it." -- Chuang-tzu

65."Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold." -- Anonymous

66."Not failure, but low aim, is crime." -- James Russell Lowell

67."Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world." -- William James

68."The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -- William James

69."The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing." -- Billie Jean King

70."What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." [set dash Unknown

71."Life is too short to be small." -- Benjamin Disraeli

72."The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." -- Ivy Baker Priest

73."The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled the more I gain." -- Susan B. Anthony

74."The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." -- William Blake

75."[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling -- and indeed healthy -- to ask why you have been given so much." -- Condoleeza Rice

76."You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people." -- Stephen Gaskin

77."He who opens a school door, closes a prison." -- Victor Hugo

78."Even monkeys fall out of trees." -- Japanese proverb

79."To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." -- A. A. Milne

80."Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." -- John Wooden

81."Children act in the village as they have learned at home." -- Swedish proverb

82."The more he cast away, the more he had." -- John Bunyan

83."Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age." -- Elizabeth I

84."Genius without education is like silver in the mine." -- Benjamin Franklin

85."If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear." -- Mark Twain

86."The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like hard work." -- Thomas Edison

87."Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write." -- William Faulkner

88."Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." -- Robert Benchley

89."Talent is like electricity -- we do not understand electricity. We use it." -- Maya Angelou

90."If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

91."There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." -- Josh Billings

92."He who will not economize will have to agonize." -- Confucius

93."Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

94."If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." -- Bob Hope

95."The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -- Mark Twain

96."A long dispute means both parties are wrong." -- Voltaire

97."Behind every able man, there are always other able men." -- Chinese proverb

98."Talk does not cook rice." -- Chinese proverb

99."The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." -- W. Somerset Maugham

100."When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

101."Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed." -- Josh Billings

102."Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. -- William Shakespeare

103."A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds." -- Mother Goose

104."The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right." -- Lord Hailsham

105."Every man is the architect of his own fortune." -- Sallust

106."Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested." -- Francis Bacon

107."When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them." -- Confucius

108."Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech that you will ever regret." -- Ambrose Bierce

109."So you see! There's no end To the things you might know, Depending how far beyond Zebra you go." -- Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra

110."Every artist was first an amateur." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

111."A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -- Lao-Tze

112."If you don't know where you want to go, any road will take you there." -- African-American proverb

113."A thousand friends are few; one enemy is too many." -- Russian proverb

114."Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." -- Oprah Winfrey

115."Great oaks from little acorns grow." -- Latin proverb

116."One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time." -- Nancy Astor

117."The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet." -- James Oppenheim

118."A happy heart is better than a full purse." -- Italian proverb

119."No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others." -- Charles Dickens

120."When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand." -- Alex Haley

121."A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap." -- Spanish proverb

122."Appearances may be deceiving." -- Aesop

123."Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest." -- Malabar proverb

124."Home is where one starts from." -- T.S. Eliot

125."I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet." -- Persian proverb

126."I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." -- Groucho Marx

127."Life can be understood only backwards, but it must be lived forwards." -- Soren Kierkegaard

128."Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice." -- Alice Childress

129."Many hands make light work." -- English proverb

130."Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive!" -- Sir Walter Scott

131."Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people." -- Arab proverb

132."My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." -- Indira Gandhi

133."No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

134."What goes around comes around." -- African-American Saying

135."What its children become, that will the community become." -- Suzanne La Follette

136."Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." -- Josh Billings

137."What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

138."Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood." -- Leonardo da Vinci

139."Time heals all wounds." -- Geoffrey Chaucer

140."Two heads are better than one." -- John Heywood

141."When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. When I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain

142."The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in." (Note: For students to understand this one, teachers might need to explain to students a little about the history of town commons, common lands set aside for the common use and enjoyment of all.) -- Thomas Jefferson

143."Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." -- Oscar Levant

144."To hate fatigues." -- Jean Rostand

145."Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." -- Benjamin Franklin

146."The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." -- Aristotle

147."There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering." -- Theodore Roosevelt

148."Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction." -- Sydney Harris

149."If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau

150."My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy." -- Thornton Wilder

151."The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." -- Edward Phelps

152."One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning." -- James Russell Lowell

153."The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands." -- Benjamin Franklin

154."Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." -- Thomas A. Edison

155."Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise." -- William Penn

156."Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together." -- Douglas Jerrold

157."Friendship is one mind in two bodies." -- Mencius

158."Genius is an African who dreams up snow." -- Vladimir Nabokov

159."Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them." -- Thomas Fuller

160."While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it." -- Samuel Johnson

161."Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." -- Voltaire

162."The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." -- Samuel Johnson

163."No man is hurt but by himself." -- Diogenes

164."Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -- Scottish proverb

165."The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart." -- Benjamin Franklin

166."Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help." -- George MacDonald

167."It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." -- Mark Twain

168."A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day." -- ancient proverb

169."Some of us are like wheelbarrows -- only useful when pushed and very easily upset." -- Jack Herbert

170."Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein

171."Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." -- William Makepeace Thackeray

172."Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis

173."As long as I can conceive something better than myself, I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it." -- George Bernard Shaw

174."While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse." -- Terence

175."It is better to wear out than to rust out." -- Richard Cumberland

176."When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough." -- Henry Fielding

177."To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather. -- Henry David Thoreau

178."The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scale." -- Aesop

179."The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." -- May Smith

180."Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams." -- Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs

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