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#1

“In this value driven and ‘connection economy’, skills & talents alone are dime-a-dozen, you need to be able to add value to others and build great connections”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive, The No Nonsense Guide to Personal Branding for Career Success

tags: branding, personal-branding, skills, talents

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#2

“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: appoint, appointed, appointment, behavior, behaviour, character, commander, elect, elected, election, enthrone, examplary, example, faithful, faithfully, father, followers, function, honest, honesty, human-being, human-face, influence, inspire, integrity, israelmore-ayivor, lead, lead-people, leader, leaders, leadership, leadership-qualities, manager, officer, opinion, ordain, pastor, personal-branding, popular-opinion, position, potential, purpose, qualities, self-leaders, self-leadership, self-made, servant, sincere, sincerity, teacher, true-leader, true-leaders, true-leadership, truthful, truthfulness, universal

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#3

“There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light,
Upon the heart of men.

Have hope! though clouds environ round,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow,
No night but hath its morn.

Have love! not love alone for one,
But man as man thy brother call,
And scatter like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.”
― Friedrich Von Schiller

tags: hope, inspirational, lessons, love, poetry

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#4

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#5

“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom. ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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#6

“There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.”
― J. Sterling, The Perfect Game

tags: battle, fight, insparation, lose, mature-ya, wisdom

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#7

“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth

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#8

“I don't understand people who say they need more "Me Time." What other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone else's body?”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#9

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

tags: conscience, encouragement, inspiration, life, morality, selfishness, wisdom

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#10

“Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

tags: favors, gods, memory, moderation, pain, sleep, suffering, wisdom

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#11

“Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”
― Dhammapada

tags: wisdom

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#12

“God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.”
― Merritt Y. Hughes, Ten Perspectives on Milton

tags: absurd, religion, wisdom

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#13

“I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: equality, identity, wisdom

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#14

“I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

tags: self-knowledge, wisdom

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#15

“Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: christianity, god, life, philosophy, spiritual, wisdom

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#16

“Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: 'May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.' But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burn-out. This is the way to spiritual death.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

tags: life, p30, wisdom

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#17

“Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together.”
― Robin Craig Clark, The Garden

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#18

“To hate others is ugly.
To hate yourself is uglier.”
― Hlovate, Rooftop Rant

tags: truth, wisdom

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#19

“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: death, dignity, faith, haiku, healing, heaven, human-mortality, love, metaphysics, national-poetry-month, philosophy, rebirth, recovery, resurrection, spirituality, starting-over, wisdom

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#20

“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: self-improvement, wisdom

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#21

“Reading all the quotes in the world won’t make you or me into Plato, Gandhi Or Einstein, just like watching hundreds games of soccer won’t make you a soccer player or taking a yoga class will make u a yogini, or reading a golf book will make you a golfer. We need to put the Knowledge to practice and that is the challenge. Put it to work for you, make the effort to Follow Through”
― pablo

tags: truth, wisdom

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#22

“A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: chatter, honesty, humility, insincerity, not-knowing, philosophy, pretentiousness, profound, sincerity, truth, uncertainty, wisdom

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#23

“Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

tags: wisdom

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#24

“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

tags: wisdom

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#25

“Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest.”
― Lincoln Patz

tags: harvest, life, prosperity, success, testing, trials, wisdom

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#26

“Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.”
― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism

tags: life, modern-society, p91, truth, wisdom

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#27

“Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you”
― Benny Bellamacina

tags: life, philosophy, poetry, wisdom

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#28

“Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

tags: wisdom

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#29

“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

tags: animals, inspirational, responsibility, wisdom

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#30

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

tags: be-anything, choice, future, inspirational, sarah-dessen, unbroken, wisdom

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