VIOLENCE

Those who live by the Sword, shall die by the Sword. ….Luke 22:38

In Violence we forget who we are. ……Mary McCarthy

Nothing good ever comes from Violence. ……Martin Luther

Violence in the Voice, is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. …..H. G. Bohn

Victory attained by Violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mohandas Gandhi

Violence is the refuge of the Incompetent. ……Salvor Hardin

The Violence done to us by others is often less painful,
than that which we do to ourselves. …….. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

There is a Violence that Liberates and one that Enslaves;
There is a Violence that is Moral and one that is Immoral. …….Benito Mussolini

One must do Violence to the object of one’s desire;
When it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. ……..Marquis of Sade

HUMANITY

Remember your Humanity and forget the rest. …..Albert Einstein

The sole meaning of life is to serve Humanity. …..Leo N. Tolstoy

You must not lose faith in Humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty. ……Mohandas Gandhi
All Humanity is one undivided and indivisible family;
And each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. ….Mohandas Gandhi

The unmistakable mark of a wise man is love for all Humanity. ….Sri Sathya Sai Baba

In recognizing the Humanity of our fellow beings;
We pay ourselves the highest tribute. …..Thurgood Marshall

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. …..Connie Mack

The oneness of Humanity is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. …Muhammad Yunus

The true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of Humanity. ……Thomas Paine

PATIENCE

Every thing comes to those who wait. ……Author Unknown

Have Patience with all things;
But first of all, with yourself. ……St. Francis de Sales

Patience is the companion of wisdom. …..St. Augustine

How poor are they that have no Patience. …..William Shakespeare

Patience is the greatest Prayer. …..Buddha

For the friendship of two;
The Patience of one is required. ……Indian Proverb

What cannot be removed;
becomes lighter through Patience. …..Latin Proverb

Patience is bitter, but it bear sweet fruit. ……Jean Jacques Roussea

He that has Patience;
Can have what he will. …..Benjamin Franklin

PRIDE

Pride goes before destruction;
And a haughty spirit, before stumbling. …..Proverbs 16:18

Pride is a personal commitment;
It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. …..William Blake

Though Pride is not a virtue;
It is the parent of many virtues. …..George Chapman

Pride is an admission of weakness;
It secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. …..Fulton John Sheen

There is a paradox in Pride;
It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ….Charles C. Colton

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken Pride. ……Gilbert Parker

Pride is the mask of one’s own faults. ……Jewish Proverb

A person will not enter paradise, who hath one atom of Pride in his heart. ….Prophet Muhammed

No man has a greater asset for his business than a man’s Pride in his work. ….Hosea Ballou

You can not give people Pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding
That makes people look to their inner strengths, and find their own sense of Pride.
…..Charleszetta Waddles

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one’s status in the eyes of others;
When one achieves that rating, then he is automatically involved in the fear of losing his status.
…..Lao Tzu
A truly Proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors.
The first, he does not admit of;
The other, he does not concern himself about. …..William Hazlitt

Pride is a personal commitment.
It is an attitude that separates excellence from mediocrity. …..Author Unknown

Pride is an admission of weakness;
It secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. …..Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

DECEIT

Integrity is the life blood of a democracy.
Deceit is a poison in it’s veins. …..Edward Kennedy

What a tangled web we weave;
..When first we practice to Deceive. …..J. R. Pope

Everyone is born sincere and die Deceivers. ….Marquis de Vauvenagues

All Deceit weakens confidence and chills benevolence. … Samuel Johnson

In a time of Universal Deceit;
..Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. …George Orwell

If the people wished to be Deceived;
..Let them be deceived. ….Cardinal Carlo Caraffa

The easiest person to Deceive is one’s own self. ….Edward G. Bulyer-Lytton

Self-deception, the root of all evil. …..Lazurus Long

Not a word from their mouths can be trusted, their hearts are filled with destruction.
Their throats are an open grave, with their tongues they speak Deceit. …..Psalm 5:9

It may be possible to Deceive men;
but you cannot Deceive the gods. …….Chinese Proverb

You can fool some of the people all the time;
and all of the people some of the time;
But you cannot fool all the people all the time. …..Phineas T. Barnum

We are never deceived, we Deceive ourselves. ……..Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is so easy as to Deceive oneself;
For what we wish, we readily Believe. …….Demostenes

The easiest way to be Deceived is to believe yourself
to be more cunning than others. ……Pierre Charron

All Deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie, reduced to practice;
And falsehood, passing from words into things. …..Robert South

It is a double pleasure to deceive the Deceiver. ……Jean de la Fontane

INTEGRITY

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

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe;
That lures him to evil ways. ….Buddha

The time is always right, to do what is right. …Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to. ….Arnold H. Glasow

To know what is right and not do it, Is the worst cowardice, ….Confucius

Laws control the lesser man.
Integrity controls the greater one. Chinese Proverb

If you have Integrity, nothing else matters;
If you don’t have Integrity, nothing else helps. …..Alan Simpson

A life lived with Integrity - even if it lacks the trappings
of fame and fortune, is a shinning star in whose light
others may follow in the years to come. ........Dennis Waitley
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. …….R. Buckminster Fuller

If you have Integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have Integrity, nothing else matters. ……..Alan Simpson

If everyone were clothed with Integrity;
If every heart were just, frank, kindly;
then the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. ……..Jean Baptiste Molière

One of the truest tests of Integrity
is its blunt refusal to be compromised. …….Chinua Achebe

Honor your commitments with Integrity. …….Les Brown

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself,
than straightforward and simple Integrity in another. …….Charles Caleb Colton

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of Integrity. ……..Baltasar Gracian

DESPAIR

Despair is a great incentive to an honorable death. …..Curtis Rufus Quintus

He who has never hoped, can never Despair. …..William Shakespeare.

Despair is the conclusion of fools. ……Benjamin Disraeli.

What we call Despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ….George Eliot

To those who Despair of everything;
Reason cannot provide a faith. …..Albert Camus

Despair is a narcotic;
It lulls the mind into indifference. ….Charlie Chaplin

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. …Graham Greene

Despair is the damp of hell;
As joy is the serenity of heaven. …..John Donne

Despair often breeds disease. ……..Sophocles

He who dies in Despair has lived his whole life in vain. …….Theodor Adorno
Action is the antidote to despair. …..Joan Baez

We draw our strength from the very despair
in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. …….Cesar Chavez

We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings. ……..Albert Einstein

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. ……Franz Kafka

Despair has its own calms. ……Bram Stoker

Blues are the songs of despair,
but gospel songs are the songs of hope. …….Mahalia Jackson

He is truly the courageous man, who never Despairs. …….Confucius

Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. …….Pope John Paul II

To be truly radical is to make hope possible,
rather than despair convincing. …….Raymond Williams

You know one of the causes of modern despair
is the fact that we have had proposed to us,
from various quarters, an impossible perfection. …….Morris West

Life begins on the other side of despair. ………Jean-Paul Sartre

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed;
Because the best things are always growing in secret. …….Ben Okri

The depth of our despair measures
what capability and height of claim we have to hope. ……Thomas Carlyle

But what we call our despair;
is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope ……George Eliot

FATHERS

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One night a father overheard his son pray:
“Dear God, make me the kind of man my Dad is”.
Later that night, the father prayed:
“Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.”
….-A Father’s Prayer, (Author Unknown)

And you Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath;
Bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. …..Ephesians 6:4

A Father’s words are like a thermostat;
That sets the temperature in the house. …..Paul Lewis

Good Fathers make good sons. ….Author Unknown

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong;
As the need for a Father’s protection. ….Sigmund Freud

It is a wise Father, who knows his child. ….William Shakespeare

It is much easier to become a Father, than to be one. …..Kent Nerburn

My Father didn’t tell me how to live;
He lived, and let me watch him do it. …..Clarence B. Kellard

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. …..The Talmud

Destiny

Think you I bear the shear of Destiny?
Have I commandment on the pulse of life? …..William Shakespeare

We are but the instrument of heaven;
Our work is not design, but Destiny. ….Lord Edward Lytton

Character is Destiny. …..Hereclitus

Your Destiny is determined by choice; -Not by chance. ……Jean Nidetch

The chain of Destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. …..Winston Churchill

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives;
And create a monster called Destiny. …..John Oliver Hobbes

And when man faces Destiny;
Destiny ends, and man comes into his own. …..Andre Malraux

Every man has his own Destiny;
The only imperative to follow it, to accept it;
No matter where it leads him. …..Henry Miller

Such is the Destiny of all who forget God;
So perishes the hope of the godless. ……Job 8:13

One often meets his Destiny in the road he takes to avoid it. …..French Proverb.

The highest Destiny of man is to serve rather than to rule. ……Albert Einstrin

Accept the things to which fate binds you;
And love the people with whom fate brings you together.
This is your Destiny. …..Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Sow an act, .… reap an habit.
Sow an habit, .…. reap a character.
Sow a character, ….reap a Destiny. ……George Dana Bordman

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for;…It is thing to be achieved. …..William Jennings Bryan

Our Destiny rules over us, even when we are not aware of it.
It is the future that makes laws for us today. …..Friedrich Wilheim Nietzsche

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives;
And create a monster they call- Destiny. ……John Oliver Hobbes

HATE

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Hate cages all the good things about you. …..Madriane Arvore

From the deepest Desires come the deadliest Hate …..Socrates

If Hate had a shape, it would be that of a boomerang. Author Unknown

It is better to be Hated for what you are;
Than be loved for what you are not. …..Andre Gide

You cannot Hate other people, without Hating yourself. …..Oprah Winfrey

Hate is too great a burden to bear. …..Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by Love;
This is the eternal rule. …..Buddha

In time we Hate that which we fear. ….William Shakespeare

But I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. …..Matthew 5:44

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul,
By making me Hate him. ……Booker T. Washington

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their Hates so stubbornly;
Is because they sense that once hate is gone, they are forced to deal with pain. ….James Baldwin

We Hate some persons because we do not know them;
And we will not know them, because we hate them. …..Charles Caleb Colton

If you Hate a person, you hate something in him that is part bof you,
What isn’t part of us, does not disturb us. ……Hermann Hesse

Sometimes it is a sign of you own worth;
If you are Hated by the right people. ……Miles Franklin

The Hatred of those who are near to us is most violent. ……Tacitus

Always remember others may Hate you,
But they don’t win unless you hate them;
And then you destroy yourself. …..Richard Milhouse Nixon

Hatred, which could destroy so much,
never failed to destroy the man who hated. ……..James Baldwin

Darkness can only be scatered by light;
Hatred can only be conquered by love. ……Pope John Paul II

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ………George Bernard Shaw

DEATH and DYING

Oh Death where is thy sting; Oh grave where is your victory? ……1Corinthians 55

There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny. ……..Author Unknown
For death begins with Life’s first breath,

And Life begins at the touch of death. ……John Oxenham

Life is not lost by dying;
Life is lost minute by minute,
Day by dragging day,
In all the thousand small uncaring ways. ..….. Stephen Benet

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. …….Epicurus

If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. ……..Lao Tzu

Do not seek death. Death will find you.But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. …….. Dag Hammarskjöld

Everybody is born with an expiry date. …..Carlito Alexander

NON-VIOLENCE

Put up thy sword into it’s place;
For all that take the sword shall perish by the sword. ……Matthew 26:52

Non-Violence is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward.
It is the weapon of the brave. ……..Mohandas K. Gandhi

The essence of Non-Violence is Love. …….. Thich Nhat Hanth

Non-Violence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
…Martin Luther King, Jr

Non-Violence leads to the highest ethics …..Thomas A. Edison

Non-Violence can be described as an honest and diligent pursuit of truth …..Arum Gandhi

Non-Violence is the supreme law of Life. …….Indian Proverb

Non-Violence is hard work.
It is the willingness to sacrifice.
It is the patience to win. …..Cesar Chavez

STRUGGLE

The important thing in life is not the Triumph, but the Struggle. …… Pierre de Coubertin

Struggle is the father of all things. ……. Adolf Hitler

The virtue lies In the Struggle, not the Prize ……. Richard Monckton Milnes

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals;
This alone is worth the Struggle. ………. William Osler

Life is a long Struggle in the dark. ……Lucretius

Once all Struggle is grasped, Miracles are possible. …….Mao Tse-Tung

It is the conduct of any man to Struggle and fall;
it is the conduct of great men to rise and soar. …….Robert Marshall

Life has meaning only in the Struggle;
Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods.
So let us celebrate the Struggle. …….Swami Sivananda

Life is a Struggle, but not warfare …….John Burroughs

One day in retrospect the years of Struggle
will strike you as the most beautiful. …….. Sigmund Freud

All life demands Struggle. ……Pope Paul VI

You have to Struggle to stay alive
and be of use as long as you can. …….Daniel Berrigan

Always remember that struggle precede success,
even in the dictionary. ……Sarah Ban Breathnach

When good people in any country cease their Struggle,
then evil men prevail. ……Pearl S. Buck

Without a Struggle, there can be no progress. ……Frederick Douglass


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SHARE

Thousands of candles can be lit by one candle,
And the life of the candle will not be shortened.
So too, Happiness never decreases by being shared. ……Buddha

We are channels made for sharing,
Not cisterns made for hording. ……Billy Graham

Sharing is the essence of Teaching.
It is, I have also come to believe, the essence of Civilization. …..Bill Moyers

To share often and much; to leave the world a little better;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
That is to have succeeded. ……. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Riches unshared are a prison. ……. C. Wayne Owens

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than Giving. …….Mary Catherine Bateson

OPTIMISM

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. …..Helen Keller

Optimism is a seed grown in the soil of faith. ….William Arthur Ward

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ….Nicholas Murray Butler

Teaching is the greatest act of Optimism. …..Colleen Wilcox

Optimism is the opium of the people. ……Milan Kundera

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ….. Voltaire

The basis of Optimism is sheer terror. ……..Oscar Wilde

An Optimist is the man who always sees the glass half full;
-Even in the desert. …..Edward A. Moses

Optimism is the opium of the people. …..Milan Kundera

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it:
If you can dream it, you can become it. …..William Arthur Ward

The Optimist sees the rose and not its thorns,
The pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. ….Khalil Gibran.

An Optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty,
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. ….Sir Winston Churchill

An Optimist is a person who travels on nothing,
From nowhere to happiness. …..Mark Twain

The essence of Optimism is that it takes no account of the present.
But it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned;
It enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself,
And not to abandon it to his enemy. …….Dietrich Bonhoeffer

STRENGTH

Physical Strength is measured by what we can carry;
Spiritual, by what we can bear. …….Author Unknown

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will. Mohandas Gandhi

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. …….Bill Clinton

The awareness of our own Strength makes us modest. …….Paul Cezanne

True Strength lies in submission,which permits one to dedicate his life,
through devotion, to something beyond himself. ……Henry Miller

The man who is swimming against the stream knows it’s Strength. …..Woodrow Wilson

He is greatest whose Strength carries up the most hearts, by the attraction of his own.
….Henry Ward

Loving someone deeply gives you Strength …….Lao Tzu