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• Making the company debt-free, which my team achieved in 2009.

• Moving the company’s headquarters 1,200 miles to a destination location, which we achieved in 2011.

• Opening a world-class corporate headquarters on a marina that embodies our culture of friendships, fun, and freedom, which we achieved in 2014.

• Earning a spot on the Inc. 500 List for the fastest-growing private companies in America for three consecutive years, which we achieved in 2015,

• Buying an island as a corporate and personal retreat, which we accomplished in 2015.

• Business ideas alone are worth very little. If you want to start a business and become successful with it, you need to solve meaningful problems. Execution is everything in business.

• Don’t just start a blog (or any type of business) unless you’ll be doing something you truly love and are good at, or unless you can dedicate yourself to becoming that expert over the coming years.

• Becoming successful in business is more about your mentality, psychology and determination than it is about finding little tips, tricks, hacks and exploitations in the marketplace.

• Start today. The only true way to learn is by doing and you can’t afford to sit around waiting for funding, hoping someone else will come along to help you execute on your idea or complain that you don’t have the time. Making excuses won’t help you start a business and it sure as hell won’t help you create the lifestyle you want for yourself.

• Launch before you feel ready. If you wait until your product or service feels perfect, someone else will already be doing a better job of helping your customers solve their problems. Validate your business idea by launching fast, bringing on a small group of paying customers and adapting to make your solution great for them over time. You’ll learn how to validate ideas quickly & cheaply in my course, 30 Days to Validate.

• How you choose to manage your time and decide which opportunities to pursue will greatly impact your success when starting a business. Outsource everything you can, so that you can focus on doing what only you can do in your business.

• Do everything in your power to avoid spending money when you start a business. Build a lean solution that provides value to your customers and only spend money on the absolute essentials at the moment you need them.

• Never stop building meaningful relationships with customers and other people in your industry. Choosing to instead view competitors as potential partners and collaborators can positively impact your business in a big way.

• Focus on setting & achieving small incremental goals rather than trying to start a business and instantly build your vision of what the company should be in the years to come. Setting realistic goals and milestones is a major component of my course, The Launch Formula.

• And much, much more…

• I'd never started a business.

• Never bought property before.

• Had a real estate license that the ink hadn't even dried on yet (I took the classes because I wanted to learn more about property maybe to buy some, not sell some).

• Hadn't ever talked to real estate agents before my real estate class.

• So I found a real estate sales trainer, spent a few hundred bucks on a week long class, and I did what they told me to.

• I made a list of everyone I knew (one of your greatest resources are the people you know).

• I wrote them all a letter and said, "I'm selling real estate now.  If you know of anyone I should talk to, let me know."

• I called them all personally to chat.

• Sure enough, I started selling houses and was in the top few percent in sales volume within a year.

• Then I started hiring people, first an assistant, then buyer's agents.  I had no idea how to hire people or do payroll so sought out accountants, interviewed a bunch, asked a lot of questions, read books, took a class, and figured it out.

• I bought books on HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, and PHP for dummies, read them all, and built all the sample projects 8 hours a day for weeks on end.

• My new partner and I both made lists of everyone we knew, sent a letter, called them, and sure enough, found clients almost right away.

• We started with $1500 projects for friends and grew the company to 22 people and $1.7M in annual revenue doing projects as big as $800k for companies like AT&T, Hess Oil, Dupont, and Wired Magazine.

• Planning. You’ll need to come up with a business plan and financial model, but you can do this on your own, for free.

• Business license. If you’re planning on creating a partnership, LLC or corporation, you’ll need to file some paperwork -- but it probably won’t cost you more than a few hundred dollars, depending on what licensing you need.

• A domain name. You’ll need to invest in your online brand early on; while I suggest going as professional as possible, you could also use a bare-bones approach to launch, if yours is a minimum viable product.

• A website. Website builders these days are free and intuitive to use. You won't expend anything but time to build your first site. I recommend starting simple with a widely-used website platform, like Wordpress.

• Marketing. While marketing has a reputation for being very expensive, there are actually a ton of really effective tactics that can be performed with only an investment of your time. Social media marketing, SEO and content marketing all fit within this category -- and, honestly, those are really all you need.

• Equipment. Equipment, offices and other tangible assets are cash killers, but not all businesses need them. Some businesses do not require any of these things.

• Products. Finally, all businesses need to sell something, which usually means some up-front investing. However, many services can be performed with an investment of time rather than money.

1. Affiliate marketing - requires a site with healthy streams of traffic for you to be able to convert that traffic into sales. This is a great way to earn money. By referring a customer, you will earn commission but choose a reputable company which pays out your commissions on time.

2. Stay away from Bitcoin - it is controversial for a reason and many traders have shunned the cryptocurrency. Many countries are now beginning to introduce measures to halt extensive trading of the virtual currency.

3. The simplest thing you can do to earn cash without spending a penny is by doing paid surveys. Find out which are the more popular paid surveys websites, and then get the momentum going. However, beware of fake websites and companies as there are many paid survey scams.

4. Follow your passion.

Actively seek out like-minded individuals
Being an entrepreneur has many benefits, but feeling connected with others isn't usually one of them. An entrepreneur works in hours alone and has his/her idea that others might think is unachievable. There are many haters out in the world who would want to make an entrepreneur feel bad about his/her work out of envy. This feeling of isolation can sev

Judy Collins
“I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.”
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 Wilford Woodruff
“If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.”
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Harvey Cluff
“No intelligent person in youth or old age should merely drift along.  Look the world squarely in the face, listen and learn…for there are grand lessons before you every minute.”
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 Ann Beattie
“It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.”
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Deseret News 1862
“If man keeps no diary, the path crumbles away behind him as his feet leave it; and days gone by are but little more that a blank, broken by a few distorted shadows. His life is all confined within the limits of to-day….”
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 Wilford Woodruff
“Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.”
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living.  Writing is a kind of double living.  The writer experiences everything twice.  Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.” 
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 Matthew Henry
"The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit."
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Thomas Carlyle
"Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons able and willing to furnish the record."
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 Horace Mann
"Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study.  Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records."
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Vita Sackville-West
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
"Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant."
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Oliver B. Huntington
“Like men in general I presume to suppose, that I shall have a posterity; and that may; like me; wish to know of their father's life, that they might view it, and perhaps profit thereby, or at least, have the satisfaction of knowing it. This is one object that induces me to write; that my nearest kindred, might know of their kinsman.”
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 Gordon B. Hinckley
“May I suggest that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous educational effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many-your families and others-now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“People often use the excuse that their lives are uneventful and nobody would be interested in what they have done. But I promise you that if you will keep your journals and records and write your personal histories, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations.”
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 Oliver Huntington
“Many times have I wished that my father had kept an account of his life, that I might look over it, and see his by-gone days, deed and fortune; and never did he make the scratch of a pen towards it, until he had seen sixty cold winters; and as yet I know but very little of his life, not enough to make any record of, although I have a very short account written, but which is beyond my reach at present, if not forever.”
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Frazier’s Magazine 1859
“And yet more precious than the power of the diary to call up again a host of little circumstances and facts, is its power to bring back the indescribable but keenly- felt atmosphere of those departed days. The old time comes over you. It is not merely a collection, an aggregate of facts, that comes back; it is something far more excellent than that: it is the soul of days long ago…Therefore keep your diary, my friend…You will look back at it occasionally, and shed several tears of which you have not the least reason to be ashamed.”
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 Theodore M. Burton
“Besides very important dates and assignments, there are many personal spiritual experiences that should be preserved. ‘Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less that men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the uplifting, faith promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.”
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Andrew Jenson
“The keeping of a journal has a tendency to keep both mind and body in the straight and narrow path.  If we keep a journal we naturally desire to write something that will read well.  We want to make a good record of ourselves.  But in order to do so we must live a good and useful life, and thus by our actions produce materials for a clean and interesting record.  We might falsify our records, but, as record makers we would constantly think of the recording angel who is making a true history of all our actions; and if we felt convinced that our record did not correspond with his in the main, we should not feel comfortable.”
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 Theodore M. Burton
“What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.”
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 Frazier’s Magazine 1859
“There are strong arguments why every man should keep a diary. I cannot imagine how many reflective men do not. How narrow and small a thing their actual life must be! They live merely in the present…If a man keeps no diary, the path crumbles away behind him as his feet leave it; and days gone by are little more than a blank, broken by a few distorted shadows. His life is all confined within the limits of to-day…. Who does not know how imperfect a thing memory is?.. A man might almost as well not have lived at all as entirely forget that he has lived, and entirely forget what he did on those departed days…”
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Frazier’s Magazine 1859
“The trouble of writing the diary is very small. A few lines, a few words, written at the time, suffice, when you look at them, to bring all…the surroundings of that season before you. Many little things come up again, which you know quite well you never would have thought of again but for your glance at those words, and still which you feel you would be sorry to have forgotten. There must be a richness about the life of a person who keeps a diary, unknown to other men. And a million more little links and ties must bind him to the members of his family circle, and to all among whom he lives. Life, to him looking back…is surrounded, intertwined, entangled, with thousands and thousands of slight incidents, which give it beauty, kindliness, reality…”
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Quintillian
"A liar needs a good memory."
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Publilius Syrus
"What is left when honor is lost?"
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Our integrity determines what we really are.”
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 Richard Buckminster
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
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 Albert Camus
“Integrity has no need of rules.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A little integrity is better than any career”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Character is higher than intellect.”
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Davy Crockett
“Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.”
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 Henry David Thoreau
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
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Henry Clay
“I would rather be right than President.”
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 Abraham Lincoln
“Every man over forty is responsible for his face.”
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Bodie Thoene
“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”
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Henry Ford
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
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Chinese Proverb
“Laws control the lesser man.  Right conduct controls the greater one.”
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 Mark Twain
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
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Thomas Paine
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
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 German Proverb
“One does evil enough when one does nothing good.”
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French Proverb
“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”
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 David Star Jordan
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
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Thomas Paine
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
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“Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.”
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Job 27:5
“Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.”
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"Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own."
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Mark Twain
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
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"A great man is always willing to be little."
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William Safire
“The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.”
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 Confucius
“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
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Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
“A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.”
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“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
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 Confucius
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
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Will Durant
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.”
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 “I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.”
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."
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 Walt Whitman
"Re-examine all that you have been told…dismiss that which insults your soul."
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Bert Murray
“Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.”
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 Arnold Horshak
“Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.”
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“The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”
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 Hannah Arendt
“Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.”
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Nathaniel Bronner Jr.
“No one will question your integrity if your integrity is not questionable.”
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 Abraham Lincoln
“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
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Arthur Freed
“Don't try to be different.  Just be good.  To be good is different enough.”
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 William Lloyd Garrison
“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
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Albert Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
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 Proverbs 20:7
“…The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“When I do good, I feel good.  When I do bad, I feel bad.  That's my religion.”
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“There can be no friendship without confidence; and no confidence, without integrity.”
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Spencer Johnson
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
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 Carol B. Thomas
“Integrity means to do what you say you will do; you keep promises to yourself.”
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John Webster
“Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.”
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Alan Simpson
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”
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Charles Evans Hughes
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
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 Aristotle
“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
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“Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it.  Autograph your work with excellence.”
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 Mario Cuomo
“Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.”
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Will Rogers
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
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"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them."
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Chester W. Nimitz
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”
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 Japanese Proverb
“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.”
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Noël Coward
“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
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 Grenville Klesier
“You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.”
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Russell M. Nelson
“Integrity safeguards love, and love makes family life rich and zestful—now and forever.”
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.”
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”
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 George Eliot
"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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Abraham Lincoln
“In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.”
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 Alexander Crummell
“Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.”
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David A. Bednar
“People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.”
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 Samuel Johnson
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
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John Lubbock
“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.”
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 James D. Miles
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
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William Shakespeare
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
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Cicero
"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
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William Faulkner
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better than yourself.”
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 Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.”
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 George Bernard Shaw
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
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Edward R. Murrow
"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful."
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 Jean Baptiste Poquelin
"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
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 Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.
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David A. Bednar
“I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.”
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 N. Eldon Tanner
“Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives—everything we say, every thought and desire.”
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W. Clement Stone
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
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 J.C. Watts
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.”
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Indira Gandhi
“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.”
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 Harry S. Truman
"A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs."
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Warren Buffet
"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you."
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 Moliere
“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.”
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John D. MacDonald
“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.”
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 Maria Razumich-Zec
"Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you’re going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."
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 Mahatma Gandhi
"There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one’s word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances”
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Arthur Dean Stanley
“Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,—in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.”
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Joseph Smith
“We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.”
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 Alexander Solzehnitsyn
"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers…we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations."
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Karl G. Maeser
“I have been asked what I mean by word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls—walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground—there is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No, never! I’d die first!”                                 _______________________________________
John C. Maxwell
“Leadership is influence.”
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W. S. Merwin
“We are the echo of the future.”
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 Euripides
"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise."
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Socrates
"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."
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 Goethe
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
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Exodus 23:2
“Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil…”
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 Gilbert Parker
“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”
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Huston Smith
“The most powerful moral influence is example.”
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 Henry Adams
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
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Henry Drummond
“The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.”
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 Arthur Henderson
“Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.”
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Duncan Sheik
“It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.”
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 George Eliot
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
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Margot Asquith
“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.”
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 Iain Macleod
“The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?”
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”
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Tom Brokaw
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
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 Elbert Hubbard
"He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow."
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1 Samuel 15:24
“I feared the people, and obeyed their voice…”
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 Ezekiel 2:6
“And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words.”
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Galatians 5:9
“A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.”
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 Orison Swett Marden
“The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.”
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Ken Blanchard
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.”
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David O. McKay
“Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it's the only thing.”
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“Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”
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 John Hancock
“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.”
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Booker T. Washington
“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.”
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”
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Blaise Pascal
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
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 Roy Croft
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
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 Eleanor Roosevelt
“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”
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Walt Disney
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
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 Billy Graham
“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
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 Napoleon Hill
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
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Soren Kierkegaard
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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 Booker T. Washington
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
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Eric Hoffer
“It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.”
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 Kenny Guinn
“Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.”
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John Ratzenberger
“I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.”
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 Henry George
"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”
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Thomas Kempis
"Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be."
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 John Locke
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
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Jim Rohn
“Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed."
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 Frank Romer
"People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice."
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Mark Twain
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
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 C. S. Lewis
“The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said”
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John Marshall
“To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.”
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Henry George
“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”
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Ulysses S. Grant
“Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.”
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Scott Adams
“You don't have to be a ‘person of influence’ to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.”
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Jean Paul Richter
“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”
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 Amos Bronson Alcott
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.”
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 Stephen Neill
“The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
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Claudius
“Acquaintance lessens fame.”
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 Emily Dickinson
“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
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Exodus 20:3
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
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Al Bernstein
"A fool and his money get a lot of publicity."
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 Daniel Boorstin
"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."
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Spencer W. Kimball
“We are on the whole an idolatrous people.”
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 1 Corinthians 10:14
“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.”
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Enya
“Fame and success are very different things.”
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 Antonio Porchia
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
“All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.”
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 Jean de la Fontaine
“By the work one knows the workman.”
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Rainer Rilke
“Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.”
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 Exodus 20:4
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.”
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1 Chronicles 16:26
“For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
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 Will Rogers
“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”
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Genesis 35:2
“… Put away the strange gods that are among you…”
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 Albert Einstein
“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
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Joseph Addison
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”
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 Kitty Kelly
“A hero is someone we can admire without apology.”
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 Voltaire
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”
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Emily Dickinson
“Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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 Psalms 135:15
“The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.”
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Daniel Boorstin
“A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”
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 Erma Bombeck
“Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”
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Goethe
“If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.”
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 Erica John
“Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”
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Aiden Wilson Tozer
“An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”
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 Herbert Beerbohm Tree
“The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.”
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William Hazlitt
“Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”
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 Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”
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Archbishop of Cantebury
"I do not read advertisements--I would spend all my time wanting things."
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
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Joseph Campbell
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
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 Thomas Carlyle
“Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.”
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Nicholas Johnson
"It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive."
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Jonathan Swift
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
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“A hero is a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Whatever thing a man sets his heart on…is his god; and if his god doesn’t also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.”
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Sir George Savile
“Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.”
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 George Bernard Shaw
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood"
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Clare Barnes
“Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the twentieth century than any other single factor.”
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree
“When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.”
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Cato the Elder
“After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.”
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 Stephen Leacock
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
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John Collins
“The world, like an accomplished hostess, pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.”
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 Lord Byron
“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
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Dante Alighieri
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”
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 John Wooden
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
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Washington Irving
“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.”
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 Ezekiel 14:6
“Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God: Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.”
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Matthew 22:37
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”
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 M.W. Fishwick
“Through hero worship we transcend our own stuffy backyards; and the specific qualities of the heroes at any given time are 'abrameters to national meaning.'”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Hero worship exists forever and everywhere...no nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man...”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors…”
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Henry David Thoreau
“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
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 Deuteronomy 8:19
“And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.”
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“A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.”
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“For in those days there shall also arise false Christ’s, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch, that, if possible, they shall deceive the very elect, who are the elect according to the covenant.”
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William V. Shannon
"Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them `free' to develop on their own. Instead, they are letting other children and the media, principally television and the movies, do the job."
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 Reo Christianson
“When the next Gibbon writes about the Decline and Fall of America, he won’t be talking about communism; the entertainment industry will be the villain. It is willing America'’ heart while ravaging its soul.”
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Daniel 5:23
“…And thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
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 Spencer W. Kimball
“Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“In recent years the media have raised boorishness to an art form. The hip heroes of movies today deliver gratuitous put-downs to ridicule and belittle anyone who gets in their way. Bad manners, apparently, make a saleable commodity. Television situation comedies wallow in vulgarity, stand-up comedians base their acts on insults to their audiences, and talk show hosts become rich and famous by snarling at callers and heckling guests
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 Durrel A. Woolsey
“Dad, you need to be a hero in your family. They need a hero. They will have strong peer pressure and temptation to adopt the so-called heroes of today who are not worthy of their attention and most certainly not their emulation. The heroes or superstars in the sports and entertainment world, and there are many, frequently become examples of dishonesty, instability, and infidelity. They flagrantly and indifferently flaunt those weaknesses of character and immorality before a doting and accepting world…
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Jim Rohn
“Labor gives birth to ideas.”                                                       _______________________________________
 Helen Keller
“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
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Anatole France
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
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 Elbert Hubbard
“The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.”
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Alain
“Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.”
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 Earl Nightengale
"The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!"
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David O. McKay
"The most powerful thing in the world is an idea."
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 Harriet Martineau
"A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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Hortense Calisher
“This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.”
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 Ken Hakuta
“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”
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Owen Laughlin
“Money never starts an idea.  It is always the idea that starts the money.”
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 Victor Hugo
“Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.”
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Carrie Latet
“An idea whose time has come was waiting there all along.”
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"Little minds speak of persons, average minds of events, great minds of ideas."
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Linus Pauling
"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
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 Albert Einstein
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
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Linus Pauling
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”
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 Victor Hugo
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
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Jean Ingelow
"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
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Mark Amidon
“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.”
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 Francois Domergue
"Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think."
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Christian Bovee
"The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts.  Thought finds its way into action."
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 Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century."
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Morris Ernst
"Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness."
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 Arnold H. Glasgow
“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”
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Alfred North Whitehead
“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.”
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 Jim Rohn
“Ideas can be life-changing.  Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
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“We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.”
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Victor Hugo
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
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 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
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Howard Aiken
“Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”
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Hyman Rickover
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”
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"Creative thinking may simply mean the realization that there is no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done."
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 J. Golden Kimball
“I want to advise these people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force--that thoughts rule the world."
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 Learned Hand
"We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought."
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Sterling W. Sill
"If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven."
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 Edwin Chapin
"Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet."
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Nicholas Butler
"The problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.  The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."
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 Carl Schurz
“Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.”
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Francis Bacon
"A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment.  Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return."
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 Michael Leboeuf
“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them.  Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time.  Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.  But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
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 Thomas Carlyle
"A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff
him."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go put your creed into your deed.”
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 H.G. Wells
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Clean your finger before you point at my spots.”
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 William Shakespeare
“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.”
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William Shakespeare
“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
________________________________________                                                                                                English Proverb
“They are not all saints who use holy water.”
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William Shakespeare
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
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 James Russell Lowell
“The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.”
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Alfred Adler
“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
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 Elbert Hubbard
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
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William Hazlitt
“We are not hypocrites in our sleep.”
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 David Christensen
“If any of you are perfect please raise your hypocritical hands.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.”
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 Elizabeth Drew
“People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.”
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De La Rochefoucauld
“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” 
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Job 13:16
“He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.”
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 Mark Twain
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.”
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 Theodore M. Hesburgh
“All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.”
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Georg Groddeck
“Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.”
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 Elbert Hubbard
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
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Louis Fischer
“History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.”
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 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
“He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.”
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Thomas Fuller
“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”
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“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.”
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Aesop
“The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.”
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 Jane Addams
“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
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“Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves.”
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“The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.”
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J. Petit-Senn
“Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.”
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 Socrates
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
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“Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.”
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 James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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George Bernard Shaw
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
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 Jean Baptiste Molière
“Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.”
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Mignon McLaughlin
“We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest.  But where are they?”
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 J. Pierpoint Morgan
“A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.  One that sounds good, and a real one.”
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Moliere
“One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.”
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 Josh Billings
“Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.”
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Job 15:34
“For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.”
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 Charles Caleb Colton
“As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”
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Matthew 15:8
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
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“I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.”
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 Aldous Huxley
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
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Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
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 Benjamin Franklin
“The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.”
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Otto von Bismarck
“When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.”
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 Matthew 7:3
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
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Montaigne
“Saying is one thing, doing another.  We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.”
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“Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.”
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Bertrand Russell
“We have two kinds of morality side by side:  one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.”
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 Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
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Jacob M. Braude
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
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 Henry H. Williams
“A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people's vices and faults.”
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Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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 Abraham Lincoln
“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.”
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Joseph Smith
"I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm ye deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, that the long, smooth-faced hypocrite."
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 Laurence Sterne
“Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.”
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Isaiah 29:13
“Wherefore the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men.”
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 Hannah Arendt
“The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself.  What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one.  Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
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 Ecclesiastes 3:4
“...A time to laugh”
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 H. G. Wells
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
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Mark Twain
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
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 Erma Bombeck
“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
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Colette
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”
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 Max Beerbohm
"Nobody ever died of laughter."
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Victor Borge
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
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 Larry Gelbart
"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
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Elsa Maxwell
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."
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 Agnes Repplier
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."
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Mark Twain
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
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 Jay Leno
"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh."
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John Masefield
"In this life he laughs longest who laughs last."
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 Joseph Addison
"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."
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Koran
"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."
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 Lord Byron
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
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Mohandas Gandhi
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
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 Edward De Bono
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
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Mary Hirsch
“Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.”
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 Langston Hughes
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
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Jonathan Swift
“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”
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 Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."
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A. Whitney Brown
"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
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 Buddy Hackett
“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices:  take it or leave it.”
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Michael Pritchard
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
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 Bob Newhart
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
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Agnes Repplier
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
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 Will Rogers
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable."
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 Edward W. Howe
"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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Erma Bombeck
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
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 Harry S. Truman
“Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.”
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Langston Hughes
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”
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Romain Cary
Humor is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."
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 Friedrich Nietzsche
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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 Lou Holtz
“The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.”
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William James
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
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 Henry Ward Beecher
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
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Bill Cosby
“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
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 Francis Bacon
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time."
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“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
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 Bill Cosby
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
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Mark Twain
"The researches of many commentators have already thrown much darkness on the subject, and it is probable that if they continue, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
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 Hugh B. Brown
“A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn some lessons in problem solving that "sweat and tears" often fail to dissolve.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Humility is royalty without a crown."
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"When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it."
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 Benjamin Franklin
“Humility makes great men twice honorable ,”
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Confucius
“Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.”
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James Matthew Barrie
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
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John Buchan
“Without humility there can be no humanity”
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 Spencer W. Kimball
"Humility is: Greatness in plain clothes"
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 Thomas Merton
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real”
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“It is always the secure who are humble.”
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 Mignon McLaughlin
“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it”
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“If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.”
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 George Eliot
“He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.”
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C.S. Lewis
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.”
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 John Ortberg
“We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?”
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Matthew 5:5
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."
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 Benjamin Franklin
"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man”
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 Rick Warren
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
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The Talmud
“Even if you be otherwise perfect, you fail without humility.”                                                                                                                                                             _____________________________________
 John Ruskin
“I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.”
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“Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!”
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 Abraham Lincoln
“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.”
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 Winston Churchill
“We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.”
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Wilson Mizner
“Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.”
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 Niccolo Machiavelli
“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”
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Edward Frederick Halifax
“True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”
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 Frank Leahy
“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”
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Ted Turner
“If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.”
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 Benjamin Franklin
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
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Laurence J. Peter
“There are two kinds of egotists:  Those who admit it, and the rest of us.”
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 Malcolm S. Forbes
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
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J. Petit-Senn
“In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.”
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 Barry Switzer
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
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Rabindranath Tagore
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
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 Mary H. Waldrip
“When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.”
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Benjamin Whichcote
“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.”
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 Gina Lindley
“People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.”
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William Safire
“Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.”
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 Thomas More
“Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot”
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Charles de Montesquieu
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
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 Rabindranath Tagore
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
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Isaac Newton
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
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 Ezra Taft Benson
"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right."
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James McNeill Whistler
“I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.”
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.”
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Lois Wilson
“Only with great difficulty does a shaft of light pierce the armor of self-righteousness.”
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 Somerset Maugham
“It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don't know!’”
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“It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.”
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 Father Strickland
“A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.”
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 Oliver Herford
“Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”
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Oscar Wilde
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
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