July - Integrity
Be honorable and straight-forward in all that you do.
Once integrity goes, the rest is a piece of cake.
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J.R. Ewing, lead character in the 20th century American television show "Dallas"
Know thyself.
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Plato, ancient Greek philosopher
Only the shallow know themselves.
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Oscar Wilde, 19th-century English wit and author
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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Oscar Wilde, 19th-century English wit and author
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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Oscar Wilde, 19th-century English wit and author
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public philosopher and poet
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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Welsh proverb
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
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Eleanor Roosevelt, 20th-century American stateswoman, First Lady
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Andre Gide, 20th-century French writer
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 19th-century American humorist, author and journalist Be as you wish to seem.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path. . . a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do . . . to find his path and walk in it.
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Thomas Carlyle, 19th-century Scots-English historian, author
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Carl Jung, 20th-century Swiss founder of analytical psychology
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within
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Oprah Winfrey, 20th-century American entertainer, businesswoman
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Richard Wright, 20th-century American author
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
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Maxwell Maltz, 20th-century American psychologist and motivational writer
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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William Hazlitt, early 18th-century English essayist and literary critic
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 18th/19th-century German statesman, poet, novelist and dramatist
