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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #3
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #4
    Christopher Paolini
    “Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #6
    Ray Bradbury
    “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #7
    Shannon L. Alder
    “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #8
    Isaac Asimov
    “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
    Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

  • #9
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

  • #10
    Thomas Paine
    “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
    Thomas Paine, Common Sense

  • #11
    René Descartes
    “Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
    Rene Descartes

  • #12
    Ludwig von Mises
    “Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
    Ludwig von Mises

  • #13
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
    inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #14
    Gavin de Becker
    “intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
    It is always in response to something.
    it always has your best interest at heart”
    Gavin De Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

  • #15
    W.C. Fields
    “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ”
    W.C. Fields

  • #16
    L.M. Montgomery
    “In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery

  • #17
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson

  • #18
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “He who must travel happily must travel light.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • #19
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • #20
    Henry Ford
    “Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
    Henry Ford

  • #21
    Saidi Mdala
    “Everyone you work with, in order to achieve a goal, must have something to lose if it is not realised and something to gain if it is realised. These are the people that are going to stick around you through thick and thin until the job is done.”
    Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

  • #22
    “Earning trust is more difficult than earning money.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo



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