The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills
for an idea, he can just as well get himself
killed for one; in either case,
tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
?Emile M. Cioran
Fanatics
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues,
that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . .
It is in our follies that we are one.
?Jerome K. Jerome
Fallibility
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops
of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
?Gandhi
Faith
No one ever won a chess game by betting
on each move. Sometimes you have to
move backward to get a step forward.
?Amar Gopal Bose
Failure
What you don't see with your eyes,
don't witness with your mouth.
?Jewish Proverb
Experience is a hard teacher
because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterwards.
?Vernon Sanders Law
Experience
If you don't want to do something,
one excuse is as good as another.
?Yiddish Proverb
Excuses
The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing.
?Edmund Burke
Evil
You can discover what your enemy
fears most by observing the
means he uses to frighten you.
?Eric Hoffer
Enemy
True eloquence consists in saying
all that is necessary, and
nothing but what is necessary.
?François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Eloquence
Education is what survives when what
has been learnt has been forgotten.
?B. F. Skinner
Education
Every right implies a responsibility;
Every opportunity, an obligation,
Every possession, a duty.
?John D. Rockefeller
Duty
No man likes to have his intelligence or
good faith questioned, especially
if he has doubts about it himself.
?Henry Brooks Adams
Doubt
Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.
?Source Unknown
Diplomacy
To avoid criticism do nothing,
say nothing, be nothing.
?Elbert Hubbard
Criticism
Let me never fall into the vulgar
mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted
whenever I am contradicted.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contradiction
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
?Arthur Ashe
Confidence
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing options, slowly eroding old
barriers, quietly building new structures.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Peace
Competition brings out the best in
products and the worst in people.
?David Sarnoff
Competition
