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“God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?”
― Samuel Johnson

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton

“And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.”
― St. Thérèse de Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

“And that was the killer who said: ‘Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one—one that would do nobody any harm.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
― William James

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”
― Henry Ford

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
― Alfred Adler, What Life Should Mean To You Hardcover

“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”
― William James

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The value of a smile at Christmas:
"None are so rich that they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits.”
― Frank Irving Fletcher

“Be ‘hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,’ and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime – repeat them years after you have forgotten them.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible