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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. ~ Princess Diana

When you are in difficulty, go to the house of your friend — not your sister’s. ~ Indian Proverb

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut. ~ Author Unknown

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. ~ Denis Waitley

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire. ~ Whoopi Goldberg

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ~ Confucius

When you are looking for a country with no tombstones you will find yourself in the land of cannibals. ~ Malagasy Proverb

When you are looking upwards you see no frontiers. ~ Japanese Proverb

When you are making a success of something, it’s not work. It’s a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world. ~ Andrew Granatelli

When you are not passionate about your work, chances are you’re not as turned on about life as possible. ~ Marcia Wieder

When you are polite, the others think they are wearing flowers. ~ Japanese Proverb

When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised. ~ African Proverb

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets. ~ Irish Proverb

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious. ~ Arthur Rimbaud

When you are sick you promise a goat, but when you are well again make do with a chicken. ~ Nigerian Proverb

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again. ~ Nikita S. Khrushchev

When you are talking about marriage, think about your mother. ~ Spanish Proverb

When you are thirsty, it’s too late to think of digging the well. ~ Japanese Proverb

When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath. ~ Richard A. Nelson

When you are very angry, don’t go to a lawyer; when you are very hungry, don’t be a poet. ~ Chinese Proverb

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose. ~ Goran Ivanisevic

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few… if you are lucky. ~ Pablo Picasso

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ~ I. F. Stone

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. ~ The Holy Bible

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts…. A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~ Sophia Loren

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. ~ Marcus T. Cicero

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ~ Lao-Tzu

When you are crossing over a river you might be eaten by crocodiles, but don’t let yourself get bitten by the little fish. ~ Malawian Proverb

When you are down and out something always turns up — and it is usually the noses of your friends. ~ Orson Welles

 

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