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When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the average conscience
a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
- Carl Jung
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
There is a higher court than courts of justice
and that is the court of conscience.
It supersedes all other courts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself,
to resist invasions of it in the case of others:
or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
- French Proverb
An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
One who breaks an unjust law
that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A satellite has no conscience.
- Edward R. Murrow
I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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