Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de la Fontaine
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
James Buckham
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The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
William Mather Lewis
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated - it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
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It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.
Denis Waitley
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. Less good when they obey and acclaim him. Worse when they fear and despise him. Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did this ourselves."
Lao Tzu
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A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thought.
James Allen
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People who don't give up keep trying because they don't base their self-worth on their performance.
John Maxwell
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When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic. It's not personal. If you want to succeed, don't let any single incident color your view of yourself.
John Maxwell
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A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank Clark
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It's OK with me if the government wishes to come pick up the body of a would-be burglar, but when someone attempts to invade my home, I consider it my personal responsibility to stop him. I consider that it is my unalienable right to acquire the means to do so.
Charley Reese
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As a rule of thumb, don't believe anybody above the rank of lieutenant colonel. That's the rank most warriors are forced to retire at. Most of the rest are politicians in uniform.
Charley Reese
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
George Crane
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Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor
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Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.
John Maxwell
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A moment of conscious triumph makes one feel that after this nothing will really matter; a moment of realized disaster makes one feel that this is the end of everything. But neither feeling is realistic, for neither event is really what it is felt to be.
J. I. Packer
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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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There's nothing more useless than someone who comes to the end of the day and congratulates himself, saying, "Well, I made it through the day without screwing up."
John Maxwell
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To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.
John Maxwell
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Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd
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Too many people, when they make a mistake, just keep stubbornly plowing ahead and end up repeating the same mistakes. I believe in the motto, "Try and try again." But the way I read it, it says, "Try, then stop and think. Then try again."
William Singleton
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
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I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
Thomas Huxley
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Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
Thomas a Kempis
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
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The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
Clive Staples Lewis
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Transformational leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.
Brian Tracy
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When you achieve complete congruence between your values and your goals, like a hand in a glove, you feel strong, happy, healthy, and fully integrated as a person. You develop a kind of courage that makes you completely unafraid to make decisions and take action. Your whole life improves when you begin living your life by the values that you most admire.
Brian Tracy
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Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.
Calvin Coolidge
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Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
Bing Crosby
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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
Bob Hope
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Tax policy should not be based on the premise that government owns you and allows you to keep some arbitrary amount of your labor.
Ron Paul
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The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.
Peter Drucker
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
Stewart B. Johnson
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It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of our responsibilities.
Josiah Stamp
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People are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
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Your self-esteem is largely determined by the relationship between your self-image, how you are performing in your day-to-day activities, and your self-ideal, the way you would perform if you were the very best person you could be. The more that your day-to-day activities are consistent with the person you want to become, the higher is your self-esteem.
Brian Tracy
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Abedi
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Reason obeys itself; ignorance submits to what is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.
Alan Greenspan
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Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
Walter E. Williams
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People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.
John Maxwell
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To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.
John Maxwell
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry Link
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Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
Amelia Earhart
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney Harris
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Life isn't fair. It isn't going to be fair. Stop sniveling and whining and go out and make it happen for you.
Dick Butler
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If you are succeeding in everything you do, then you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough.
John Maxwell
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant McGill
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi
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The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on our gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
William Bolitho
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People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
Nido Qubein
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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
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If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.
William Marston
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Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
William Mayo
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There is no failure except no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Ken Hubbard
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Experience is not what happens to you. Experience is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
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Most people run from problems. If you want to get ahead, go to your manager and say, "You got problems? Give me some." Instead of running from problems like most people, go after them. If you do, I'll guarantee, it will change your life! That's the way you get ahead, by solving problems.
Dave Anderson
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There are only three things you can do when you have a problem with somebody. Change him, accept him, or divorce yourself from him.
Lou Holtz
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You choose your friends, you choose your environment, you choose your actions. And you will be held accountable.
Lou Holtz
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Welcome to The Lou Holtz Show. Unfortunately, I'm Lou Holtz.
Lou Holtz
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This is the context.
We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.
Lou Holtz
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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
Lou Holtz
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I always tell our athletes, "The qualities you develop now, the things we're going to insist upon, will be with you for life, and they'll always be as sound and as good as they are now." All we're really talking about is a commitment to excellence.
Lou Holtz
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So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?
Lou Holtz
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There is a thin line between discipline and harassment. Discipline breeds success; harassment breeds contempt.
Lou Holtz
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Your future depends on many things, but mostly yourself.
Frank Tyger
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Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Publilius Syrus
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we agree. The true test comes when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we disagree.
Walter E. Williams
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game.
Lou Holtz
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If you are bored with life, if you don't have a burning desire to get up in the morning to do things, your problem is you do not have goals.
Lou Holtz
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The average person puts only 25 percent of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50 percent of their capacity and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100 percent.
Andrew Carnegie
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A hypocrite is somebody who complains about sex, nudity, and violence on the VCR.
Lou Holtz
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Caring about somebody doesn't mean making it easy for them. Caring is helping them to develop their traits and talents.
Lou Holtz
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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
Lou Holtz
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When you concern yourself with the welfare of others, you engender loyalty and respect. You create value. And you acquire power.
Lou Holtz
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The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing.
Lou Holtz
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You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.
Lou Holtz
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If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
Lou Holtz
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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
Stephen Covey
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What I'm looking for is a running back who can carry the ball twenty times on Saturday and then show up at practice Monday without a lawyer, doctor, or agent.
Lou Holtz
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If I was murdered as soon as practice is over, there would be so many suspects among the players that they wouldn't even try to investigate.
Lou Holtz
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Show me a person who is a success, and I'll show you a person who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz
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If you're patting yourself on the back about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.
Lou Holtz
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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
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If you've had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you've achieved.
Vic Conant
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Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent van Gogh
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Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard
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Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
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I have never heard a successful man or woman get up and say, "I owe my success to drugs and alcohol."
Lou Holtz
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
Abraham Maslow
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Statist society promises you happiness in exchange for the better part of your freedom. Civil society merely guarantees your freedom. Happiness is up to you.
Theodore Forstmann
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