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(1297 votes)  It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current.

Source Unknown

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(1424 votes)  Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(1352 votes)  In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(1307 votes)  How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Anne Sophie Swetchine
1782-1857, Russian Author

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(1286 votes)  The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(1274 votes)  Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(1266 votes)  People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(1262 votes)  If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.

Indian Proverb
Sayings of Indian Origin

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(1251 votes)  Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(1247 votes)  Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(1238 votes)  Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(1231 votes)  They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business.

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(1230 votes)  Just do what you do best.

Red Auerbach
1917-, American Basketball Coach

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(1219 votes)  They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(1216 votes)  To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(1207 votes)  Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Clarissa

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(1201 votes)  Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(1197 votes)  Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

John Wooden
1910-, American Basketball Coach

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(1195 votes)  YOU CANNOT HAVE WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT.

JOHN ACOSTA
POET

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(1193 votes)  All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Source Unknown

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(1193 votes)  A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(1191 votes)  To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(1179 votes)  Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.

German Proverb
Sayings of German Origin

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(1177 votes)  The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Heinrich Heine
1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist

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(1173 votes)  Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

John Dewey
1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator

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(1171 votes)  When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(1167 votes)  It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(1166 votes)  What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(1163 votes)  Respect the burden.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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(1161 votes)  To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham H. Maslow
1908-1970, American Psychologist

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(1159 votes)  Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(1155 votes)  A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(1155 votes)  Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(1149 votes)  A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Jane Heard

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(1146 votes)  Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

John G. Pollard

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(1144 votes)  We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(1142 votes)  As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
1874-1942, Canadian Novelist

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(1140 votes)  I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

Scotty Bowman
American Hockey Coach

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(1139 votes)  Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(1139 votes)  Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(1135 votes)  Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(1126 votes)  We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Alexander Hamilton
1757-1804, American Statesman

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(1121 votes)  Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

William Frederick Book

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(1115 votes)  Men are respectable only as they respect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(1106 votes)  One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Ernest Bramah
American Writer

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(1099 votes)  In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king

Desiderius Erasmus

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(1098 votes)  there are two types of people...one who ask for directions and the others who find their way. both may reach the destination but the satisfaction of the other kind is far greater.

dominik sliver
writer

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(1090 votes)  Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Eldridge Cleaver
1935-, American Black Leader, Writer

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(1078 votes)  The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(1019 votes)  I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Herbert Henry Lehman
1878-1963, American Banker, Politician, Philanthropist

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