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“If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
― Aesop

“If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

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

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
― Abraham Maslow

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
― Albert Einstein

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
― Albert Einstein

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
― Albert Einstein

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
― Albert Einstein