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“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.”

“A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.”

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

“All worries are less with wine.”

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

“Simplicity saves strength.”

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

“Great losses are great lessons.”

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.”

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

“But don’t risk having children make a speech to the class unless you’ve provided them with the tools to know with reasonable confidence that it will go well. Have kids practice with a partner and in small groups, and if they’re still too terrified, don’t force it. Experts believe that negative public speaking experiences in childhood can leave children with a lifelong terror of the podium.”

“Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.”

“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.”

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”

“Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that some horses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at the thundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing a farmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse as the train goes by? How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars—graze him in a back-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines or automobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently see the machines? Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness and fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attain freedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. A book may give you excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the water, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangle and be "half scared to death." There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.”

“Elizabeth walked slowly down the aisle with her head held high. As she turned to face the assembled legislators, the audience strained forward, pulled by her calm but powerful presence. If anyone in the room thought the young woman before them would mince her words, they quickly realized their mistake.”

“Any girl with a grin never looks grim.”

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

“Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.”

“An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.”