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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an...
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or...
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us...
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
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By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood....
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable ...
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a ...
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, a...
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If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you re...
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. HAYAKAWA

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' a...
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Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait...
S. I. HAYAKAWA I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long tim...
SESSUE HAYAKAWA Jason sincerely regrets his actions and also the embarrassment he's caused to his sport. We intend t...
DAVID HAYAKAWA The only way he doesn't show up here is if he's in jail there. There is a huge difference between su...
DAVID HAYAKAWA I understand my client has a case in Atlanta that he is on probation for. We are working with Mr. Mi...
DAVID HAYAKAWA Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional i...
S.I. HAYAKAWA Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a ...
S.I. HAYAKAWA Citizens of a modern society need [...] more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by ...
S.I. HAYAKAWA If a man were to spend years of his life trying to discover the chemical constituency of salt water ...
S.I. HAYAKAWA If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to ...
S.I. HAYAKAWA To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to compreh...
S.I. HAYAKAWA It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives ...
S.I. HAYAKAWA He's always been something like a star to me
NOJIKO HAYAKAWA Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
I CHING

Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o...
I CHING

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de...
I CHING

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
I CHING

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING

He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie...
I CHING

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I

I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ...
ELIZABETH I

Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t...
I CHING

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ...
FAROUK I

Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
ELIZABETH I

'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make i...
ELIZABETH I

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen...
ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
ELIZABETH I

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
ELIZABETH I

If we still advise we shall never do.
ELIZABETH I

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
ELIZABETH I

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
ELIZABETH I

The word must is not to be used to princes.
ELIZABETH I

The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I

God forgive you, but I never can.
ELIZABETH I

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ...
ELIZABETH I

The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
ELIZABETH I

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
ELIZABETH I

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe...
ELIZABETH I

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th...
ELIZABETH I

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
ELIZABETH I

All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
EYDEN I.

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ...
ELIZABETH I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
STANISLAUS I

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such s...
ELIZABETH I

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ...
ELIZABETH I

(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)

"[W]hile we perceive ... th...
ELIZABETH I

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un...
ELIZABETH I

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having...
ELIZABETH I To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.
STANISLAS I Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor...
Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct...
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and re...
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity a...
There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.
The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.
Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things t...
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your...
Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignor...
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

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