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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.''


Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.


The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed.


A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.


Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.


We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.


Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, ''What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today?'' He replied, ''I would finish hoeing my garden.''


Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.


A Christian is like a tea bag -- he's not worth much until he's been through some hot water.


Difficulties are stepping stones to success.


If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.


Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.


A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.


Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.


When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.