Non-Violence

"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

- Thomas Jefferson

Tolerance

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

- 14th Dalai Lama

Solution

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

- Henry Ford

Destiny

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

- Jack Welch

Capital

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."

-  Mohandas Gandhi

Charity

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

- Lao Tzu

Compassion

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- 14th Dalai Lama

Life

"Life is not fair; get used to it."

- Bill Gates

Unity

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

- Abraham Lincoln

Life

"To live is to think."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

- Socrates

Judgment

"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."

-  Mohandas Gandhi

Reason

"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- 14th Dalai Lama

Government

"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."

- Samuel Adams

Intimacy

"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."

- Thomas Jefferson

Improvement

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

- Socrates

Self

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."

-  Mohandas Gandhi

Potential

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill

Liberal

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

- Robert Frost

* Editor's note: For those who consider themselves liberal, please allow time for this quote to resonate before reacting to it.  Thank you.

Kindness

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

-  14th Dalai Lama

Practice

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

-  Mohandas Gandhi

Security

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

- Robert Frost

Action

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

- Tony Robbins

Fundamentals

"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."

-  Mohandas Gandhi

Failure

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

- Tony Robbins

Truth

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."

- George Carlin

Faith

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."

-  14th Dalai Lama

Action

"Action expresses priorities."

-  Mohandas Gandhi

Dreams

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

-  Harriet Tubman

Freedom

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

-  Noam Chomsky