The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Know that love has no limits.
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Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
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You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
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A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
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When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
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Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Know that you are loved.
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I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
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To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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