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Some sayings that might help ...

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. 
- Jacob Braude

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. 
- Chinese Proverb

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. 
- Spanish Proverb 

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. 
- James Baldwin

The beginning is the half of every action. 
- Greek Proverb

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. 
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. 
- Henry Ford

We must become the change we want to see. 
- Mahatma Gandhi

The best armour is to keep out of range. 
- Italian Proverb

When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
-Arlene White

Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more:
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more;
love more and all good things in life will come to you.
- Swedish proverb

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.
- Claudia Black

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. 
- Anon

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. 
- John Atkinson

Better to bend than break.
- Scotts Proverb

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself. 
- Anon

Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out. 
- Jewish Proverb

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. 
- Mahatma Gandhi

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. 
- Josh Billings

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. 
- John Stuart Mill

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. 
- Colin Powell

Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. 
- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994

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