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Some Quotes

Discipline:

If you are in a hurry you will never get there.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Risk Perceptions:

The participant's perspectives are clouded while the bystander's views are clear.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

How can you expect to find ivory in a dog's mouth?

Think Big:

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon

Learn:

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

Review the old and deducing the new makes a teacher.

Limitations:

Of all the strategems, to know when to quit is the best.

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.

The Secret:

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

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