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A) Wisdom
1.The pen is mightier than the sword.
2. Knowledge is power.
3. As you sow, so you shall reap.
4. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
5. It's easy to be wise after the event.
6. A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom
knows the corners.
7. Wisdom is more powerful than mere
strength.
8. Words cut deeper than knives.
9. Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not
cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
10. Years know more than books.
11. Chance favours the prepared mind.
12. If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
13. Fear is what prevents the flowering of the
mind.
14. A wise man never knows all, only fools
know everything.
15.To find yourself, think for yourself.
16. A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
17. Two wrongs does not make a right.
18. The only constant in life is change.
19. Practice makes perfect.
C) Never give up
1. Where there is a will, there is a way.
2. Better late than never.
3. Slowly but surely.
4. Practice makes perfect.
5. Hope for the best, but prepared for the worst.
6. I can and I will.
7. God helps those who help themselves.
8. A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
9. It's never too late to mend.
10. Winners never quit; quitters never win.
11. Do not give up, the beginning is always the
hardest.
12. It always seems impossible until it's done.
13. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step.
14. However long the night, the dawn will break.
B) Confidence
1. If you want something done right, you have
to do it yourself.
2. Freedom is nothing but a chance to be
better.
3. Rule your mind or it will rule you.
4. The most beautiful thing you can wear is
confidence.
5. With confidence, you have won before you
have started.
6. Confidence comes not from always being
right but from not fearing to be wrong.
7. Trust yourself. You know more than you
think you do.
8. Always remember you are braver than you
believe, stronger than you seem and smarter
than you think.
9. No one can make you feel inferior without
your consent.
10. Never give someone power to define who
you are.
11. A flower does not think of competing with
the flower next to it. It just blooms.
12. It is not the mountain we conquer but
ourselves.
D) Teamwork
1.Many hands make light work.
2. Two heads are better than one.
3. Teamwork makes the dream work.
4. Talent wins games, but teamwork and
intelligence win championships.
5. A single bracelet does not jingle.
6. You are only as strong as the weakest link.
10. There is strength in numbers.
11. All for one and one for all.
12. Alone we can do so little, together we can
do so much.
13. United we stand, divided we fall.
14. You will never walk alone.
15. There is strength in numbers.
15. After the storm comes the rainbow.
16. If there is a will, there is a way.
E) Procrastination
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can
do today.
2. A stitch in time makes nine.
3. You may delay but time will not.
4. A year from now you may wish you had
started from today.
5. Early bird catches the worm.
6. The best time to start was yesterday.
7. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar
him.
8. Someday is not a day of the week.
9. Time and tide wait for no man.
10. Begin. The rest is easy.
G) Family
1. Like father, like son.
2. There's no place like home.
3. Home is where the heart is.
4. Blood is thicker than water.
5. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
6. Family is the most important thing in the
world.
7.Children are a poor man's riches.
8. Home is were the heart is.
9. You can’t choose your family.
10. Family is a gift that lasts forever.
I) Health
1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
2. Eat to live, not live to eat.
3. A healthy man is a successful man.
4. Health is wealth.
5. Good health is better than wealth.
6. Better to wear out than to rust out.
7. Better be poor and healthy than rich and
sick.
8. Prevention is better than cure.
9. The beginning of health is sleep.
10. Good health is the sister of beauty.
11. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise.
12. Good health and good sense are two great
F) Success
1. Education is the key to success.
2. Knowledge is power.
3. He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
4. Pearls do not lie on the seashore. If you want one,
you must dive for it.
5. You learn through mistakes, no one was born a
master.
6. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
7. Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it.
8. Success is a pile of failure that you are standing
on.
9. Work hard in silence. Let your success be your
noise.
10. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-
nine percent perspiration.
H) Love & Friendship
1. Love is colour blind.
2. The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
3. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
4. Love understands all languages.
5. Don't judge a book by its cover.
6. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
7. False friends are worse than open enemies.
8. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
9. To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
10. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
11. In love, a beggar and a king are equal.
12. The best things in life are free.
13. A smile never costs anything.
14. Laughter is the best medicine.
J) Environment
1. Go Green. There is no Planet B.
2. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years
ago. The next best time is today.
3. Do your duty to keep nature a beauty.
4. Look after the land and the land will look after
you, destroy the land and it will destroy you.
5. He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.
6. A society grows great when old men plant trees
whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
7. The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the
Earth.
8. The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that
someone else will save it.
9. We do not inherit this earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
blessings. 10. Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.
13. A healthy body is a healthy mind.
14. We are what we eat.