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  • 42 Quotes About Telling the Truth

    42 Quotes About Telling the Truth

    Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. – Paolo Coelho   Telling someone the truth is a loving act. – Mal Pancoast   Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. – Mark Twain   When in doubt, tell the Truth.…

  • 49 Idealism Quotes

    49 Idealism Quotes

    The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge. – Adolf Hitler   Idealism is only naive when it lacks action, determination, and imagination. – Colin Wright   Idealism is the highest form of reason. – John Charles Polanyi   Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. – William…

  • 40 Bad Habits Quotes

    40 Bad Habits Quotes

    It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. – Benjamin Franklin   Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. – Og Mandino   The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. – Jerome Hines   The…

  • 48 Victim Quotes

    48 Victim Quotes

    Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens. – Peter McWilliams   The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing. – B. Barmanbek   Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results. – Robin Sharma   You can’t play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one…

  • 43 Quotes About Wasting Time

    43 Quotes About Wasting Time

    The biggest mistake you can make in life is to waste your time. – Jerry Bruckner   A year from now you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb   If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee   If you are not…

  • 57 Unity Quotes

    57 Unity Quotes

    United we stand, divided we fall. – Aesop   All for one, and one for all. – Alexandre Dumas   The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. – W. Somerset Maugham   Unity is strength, division is weakness. – Swahili Proverb   No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven…

  • 48 Vanity Quotes

    48 Vanity Quotes

    Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld   Clothes don’t make the man. – Unknown   Vanity blossoms but bares no fruit. – Nepalese Proverb   If someone gives you advice, it is in his own interest. – Tunisian Proverb   Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a…

  • 57 Criticism Quotes

    57 Criticism Quotes

    The dread of criticism is the death of genius. – William Gilmore Simms   I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic. – Leonard Bernstein   Think before you speak is criticism’s motto, speak before you think, creation’s. – E. M. Forster   The critic has to educate…

  • 37 Assumptions Quotes

    37 Assumptions Quotes

    Never make assumptions about someone based on your past experiences with someone else. – Unknown   Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong. – Albert Einstein   We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. – Miguel Angel Ruiz   It is useless to attempt to reason a man out…

  • 55 Positive Energy Quotes

    55 Positive Energy Quotes

    Positive anything is better than negative nothing. – Elbert Hubbard   When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple. – Paulo Coelho   If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berie   All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything. – Gary W Goldstein…

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