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“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

Feels Mean Littles Character Able Action Success Acting Encouragement Little Things

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.”

Mean Children Practice Ought Encouragement Ill Blow Reasoning Treatment Honorable Ill Treatment

Author:Plutarch

“Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.”

Mean Feelings Perfect Quality Findings Weakness Evidence Encouragement Surprise Shortcomings Good Quality Love Means Perfect Love

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.”

People Wells Mean Children Sometimes Age Teach Discipline Behavior Findings Criticism Encouragement Faults Confused Fault Finding

Author:Susan W. Tanner

“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”

Love Inspirational Mean Use Truth Speak Integrity And Love Encouragement Gossip Impeccable Four Agreements Truth And Love Spiritual Truth Spiritual Integrity

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.”

Should Heart Mean Car Needed Encouragement Neighbor Mortals Cables Momentum Boost Jumpers Tow

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.”

World Feels Mean Pain Suffering Compassion Produce Capable Encouragement Resistance Uncomfortable Psychics Avoidance Numbing

Author:Joanna Macy

“The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.”

Needs Giving Wells Mean Home Genius Skills Encouragement Invention Commerce Agriculture Advancement Introduction Exertion Recommendations Expediency E Commerce

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

“I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?”

Thinking Knows Men Mean Doe Done Might Pain Universe Passion Vision Creation Planets Inspirational Life Exercise Sorrow Encouragement Terror Rhythm Panic Grotesque Rumble

Author:Ernest Becker

“Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections

“All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action”

Mean Ideas Action Encouragement Good Thoughts Thoughts And Ideas

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.”

Ifs Mean Fall Class Industry Encouragement Prosperity Productive Corn Accumulation If Then

Book:The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Source: The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

“If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties.”

Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation

“When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.”

Mean Doe Facts Might Suffering Loses Religious Loss Path Encouragement Obedience Suffering And Pain Suffering Pain Pain Suffering

Book:Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back

Source: Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back