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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Katharine Hepburn

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder an honorable character is your best calling card and that's something anyone can have!

The world may take your reputation from you but it cannot take your character.

Emma Dunham Kelley

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Marcus Aurelius

Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work not yours.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people.

What's important is finding out what works for you.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Molière

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

What one man does another fails to do what's fit for me may not be fit for you.

Anonymous

Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.

Marcus Aurelius

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Every man must get to heaven his own way.

Frederick the Great

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that.

Epictetus

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.

George Bernard Shaw

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Joan L. Brannon

There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

Barbara Lazear Ascher

Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Joan Baez

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Personality too is destiny.

Erik H. Erikson

The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.

I don't go by the rule book-I lead from the heart not the head.

Diana

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal outside of the law.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Giacomo Leopardi

Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

Shirley Maclaine

Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

George E. Woodberry

In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Rollo May

The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.

Margaret Anderson

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

I searched through rebellion drugs diets mysticism religions intellectu-alism and much more only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good clean and right.

If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.

Sylvester Stallone

That suit is best that best suits me.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.

Holbrook Jackson

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

Hazel Henderson

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.

Grace Murray Hopper

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Eva Le Gallienne

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Barbara Walters

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

Agnes Whistling Elk

Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it it's my personality.

Jay Chiat

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