We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.
