Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
War will exist until that distant day
when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Positive thinking has acquired a bad reputation -
which I believe to be totally undeserved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency
the reputation which carried him into it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion.
The several sects perform the office of a Censor -
over each other.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We gather today in gratitude for the bounty of the land,
the joyful company around this table,
and all the other blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a plain ordinary magnificent creation of God,
just like every other plain ordinary
mountain, ocean, tree, animal, and human.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not what we are,
nor do we treat or esteem each other for such,
but for what we are capable of being.
- Henry David Thoreau
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
O Day of days when we can read!
The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser,
and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
- John Lennon
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
All other things being equal,
the simplest explanation is the most likely.
- a statement of Occam's Razor
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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