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Dalai Lama
(Religious leader)

Think of other people. Serve other people sincerely. No cheating . . . .

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

Bette Davis
(Actor)

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops a sample issue doing this, he's dead.

Miles Davis
(Musician)

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

Humphry Davy
(Chemist, 1778-1829)

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small bligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Doris Day
(Entertainer and animal rights activist)

I like joy; I want to be joyous ... I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want.

Ruby Dee

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.

Luc de Clapiers
(Soldier and writer, 1715-1747)

Great thoughts come from the heart.

Jean-Francois-Paul de Gondi
(Clergyman and Politician, c. 1614-1679)

What is necessary is never a risk.

Delilah
(Radio personality)

When you reach out in love and build someone up, you usually end up building yourself up as well. Whether it is something as fleeting as a warm smile, or holding a door open for an elderly person, or sacrificing your seat on a crowded subway so a tired mother can sit with her child, a small act of kindness goes a long way.

Anthony de Mello
(Jesuit Priest, 1931-1987)

If you never condemned, you would never need to forgive.

Agnes DeMille
(Dancer and choreographer, 1905-1993)

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Peter de Vries
(Writer, 1910-1993)

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

Eugene Delacroix
(Artist,1798-1863 )

Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much.

Sarah Louise Delany
(Educator, 1889-1999)

Life is short and it's up to you to make it sweet.

Demosthenes
(Orator and statesman, 384-322 B.C.)

The time for extracting a lesson from history is ever at hand for those who are wise.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Charles Dickens
(Writer, 1812-1870)

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Emily Dickinson

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Annie Dillard

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Phyllis Diller
(Comedian)

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Isak Dinesen

The cure for anything is salt water-sweat, tears, or the sea.

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Mike Ditka
(Football Coach)

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

J. Frank Dobie
(Writer, 1888-1964)

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Angelo Donghia
(Interior Designer, 1935-1985)

Assumption is the mother of screw-up.

Peter F. Drucker
(Management consultant)

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

John Dryden
(Poet and critic, 1631-1700)

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Alexandre Dumas
(Novelist and Dramatist, 1824-1895)

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Katherine Dunham
(Dancer and Choreographer)

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

Finley Peter Dunne
(Journalist and Humorist, 1867-1936)

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Brian Dyson
(Business executive)

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.