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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
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There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
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- William Glasser
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
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
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
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
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
Grace has been defined as the outward expression
of the inward harmony of the soul.
- William Hazlitt
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
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