Do you wish to be great?
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- Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.~ Welsh Proverb
- Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.~ Blaise Pascal
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.~ Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.~ Saint Augustine
- If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.~ Goethe
- If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.~ Ovid
- If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.~ Oliver Goldsmith
- If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.~ Leo Buscaglia
- If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.~ Thomas Carlyle
- If you wish for peace be ready for war.~ Traditional Proverb
- If you wish good advice, consult an old man.~ Romanian Proverb
- If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.~ Brian Tracy
- If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.~ Henry Clay
- If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- If you wish to be a writer, write.~ Epictetus
- If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.~ Bulgarian Proverb
- If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.~ Chinese Proverb
- If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
- If you wish to know what most occupies a man’s thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation.~ Chinese Proverb
- If you wish to learn the highest truth, begin with the alphabet.~ Japanese Proverb
- If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.~ Publilius Syrus
- If you wish to succeed, consult three old people.~ Chinese Proverb
- If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.~ Joseph Addison
- If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.~ Cesare Pavese
- Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.~ Norman Vincent Peale
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