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If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends, which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior, but take great care not to drop one word of their experience, for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it, for when we fail, our pride supports, when we succeed, it betrays us.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. Helena Petrova Blavatsky.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't..

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us and those around us more effectively. Look for the learning.

Trials, temptations, disappointments all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.