A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character - how he makes it and how he spends it.
James Moffatt
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Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hammond
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
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A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is the source.
Capitalism is the only system in the world founded on credit and character.
Hubert Eaton
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As diamonds cut diamonds, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.
Cyrus Bartol
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Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science.
Harlow Shapley
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert
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Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
William Feather
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Fight! Be somebody! If you have lost confidence in yourself, make believe you are somebody else, somebody that's got brains, and act like him.
Sol Hess
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Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple will crumble to dust.
Marcus Aurelius
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The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.
Anne McCormick
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This country [America] was not built by men who relied on somebody else to take care of them. It was built by men who relied on themselves, who dared to shape their own lives, who had enough courage to blaze new trails - enough confidence in themselves to take the necessary risks.
J. Ollie Edmunds
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Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Pablo Picasso
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It is not impossibilities that fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities that we have failed to realize.
Robert Mallet
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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed to produce.
François Fénelon
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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
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The trouble for most people is they don’t decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.
Michael Masterson
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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor
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The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Grace Hopper
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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin
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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
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The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
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Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
Pope John Paul II
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. Taylor
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An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan Bissonette
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
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The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.
Charles M. Schwab
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The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit - the will to win and the courage to work.
George Courtelyou
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The strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is courage.
Michel de Montaigne
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The way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; i.e. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted), will certainly become rich.
Benjamin Franklin
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Denis Waitley
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No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill
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If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
Maya Angelou
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
William Shakespeare
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People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
Mary Poole
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
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In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Harry Fosdick
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
James Rippe
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One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
Brian Tracy
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will.
Albert Schweitzer
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Luce
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
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This is the source.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually destitute, that is exactly what you will be.
Robert Collier
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
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Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison
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I will study and prepare and one day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
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Take good care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
Bette Davis
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Ayn Rand
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Smith
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About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitzer
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Marilyn Ferguson
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
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The argument from intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
Ayn Rand
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The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
Faith Popcorn
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.
Malcom Forbes
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Misfortune does not always wait on vice; nor is success the constant guest of virtue.
William Havard
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To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.
Mark Sullivan
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A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.
William Punshon
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
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The successful man lengthens his stride when he discovers that the signpost has deceived him; the failure looks for a place to sit down.
J. R. Rogers
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We do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts.
Françoise de Maintenon
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon Suenens
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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To be successful, you've got to be willing to fail.
Frank Tyger
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Nobody succeeds in a big way except by risking failure.
William Feather
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Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Napoleon Hill
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosphy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Charles Baudouin
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You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded.
Edward Hale
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A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
John Rockefeller
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
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No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand
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I look on that man as happy who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
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It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
Orison Marden
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Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
Saint Francis
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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard
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Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller
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It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Dr. Rob Gilbert
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
Earl Warren
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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
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If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Sir Winston Churchill
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Fosdick
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
David Zucker
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein
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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Stephen Covey
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.
Brian Tracy
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Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
Brian Tracy
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Practice audacity in all things. Acting with courage builds your courage and confidence higher and higher.
Brian Tracy
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Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
William James
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There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.
Henry George
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
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I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
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To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham
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People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
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The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John Rockefeller
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Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
Orlando Battista
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Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.
William Given Jr.
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A little integrity is better than any career.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.
Edward Harriman
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better.
Edgar Watson Howe
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The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
Dr. Frank Crane
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Life doesn't cheat. It doesn't pay in counterfeit coin. It doesn't lock up shop and go home when payday comes. It pays every man exactly what he has earned. The age-old law that a man gets what he earns hasn't been suspended. When we take that truth home and believe it, we've turned a big corner on the high road that runs straight through to success.
Basil Walsh
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly start remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Patience is bitter, but its fruits are sweet.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
William Feather
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Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
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Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have?
Kerry Johnson
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When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker
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Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Success consists of a series of little daily victories.
Laddie Hutar
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I find in life that most affairs that require serious handling are distasteful. For this reason, I have always believed that the successful man has the hardest battle with himself rather than with the other fellow. To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.
Thomas Buckner
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Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
William Howard Taft
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Have success and there will always be fools to say that you have talent.
Edouard Pailleron
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One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
William Matthews
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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
Frank Tyger
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
Irving Berlin
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I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
J. Paul Getty
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If we fasten our attention on what we have, rather than on what we lack, a very little wealth is sufficient.
Francis Johnson
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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
Henrik Ibsen
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
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The ascending spiral of greatness in America has risen because industry has produced wealth, which in turn has supported educational institutions, which in turn have supplied leadership to industry in order that with each succeeding generation it might produce more wealth.
Wallace Bennett
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The old thought that one cannot be rich except at the expense of his neighbor must pass away. True prosperity adds to the richness of the whole world, such as that of the man who makes two trees grow where only one grew before. The parasitical belief in prosperity as coming by the sacrifices of others has no place in the mind that thinks true.
Anne Miltz
"My benefit is your benefit, your success is my success," should be the basis of all our wealth.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
John Galsworthy
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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.
John Wicker
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.
David Jordan
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A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
Joseph Collins
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Heads are strongest when they are cool and hearts are strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
Ralph Bunche
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Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead, for vain regretting interferes with the flow of power into our own personalities.
Edith Johnson
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
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True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.
Edward Humphrey
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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Frances Hutcheson
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There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.
George Herbert Walker Bush
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God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster
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Posterity - you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams
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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
Calvin Coolidge
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Let the mind control the body, not the body control the mind.
Jimmy Johnson
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Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. The legions which she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the cross. The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
Calvin Coolidge
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Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
James Allen
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Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
James Allen
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Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harboring of groveling thoughts.
James Allen
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Man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
James Allen
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Every thought seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
James Allen
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A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
James Allen
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Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions. But when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.
James Allen
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The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.
James Allen
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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
James Allen
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Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.
James Allen
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
James Allen
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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
James Allen
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At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.
James Allen
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Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
James Allen
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To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
James Allen
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Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor the left. Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating elements which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless. Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplish anything, and never can. They always lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.
James Allen
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The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
James Allen
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Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.
James Allen
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A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.
James Allen
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Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence.
James Allen
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A man whose first thought is bestial indulgence could neither think clearly nor plan methodically. He could not find and develop his latent resources, and would fail in any undertaking. Not having commenced manfully to control his thoughts, he is not in a position to control affairs and to adopt serious responsibilities.
James Allen
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The universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.
James Allen
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The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.
James Allen
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I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.
Michael Jordan
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I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
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You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them. The fundamentals will never change.
Michael Jordan
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Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people.
Dave Liniger
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If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Tony Robbins
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors are finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together - humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.
Charles Kingsley
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
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Strength of character means strong feelings, and strong command over them. This is where foresight, judgment, and will-power unite to form the most vital and important cement of a strong personality. To subordinate the lower nature to the higher, to be able to forego a present pleasure for a greater future good, is a distinguishing mark of the highest type of character. Self-denial is essential to manhood; for, to make one's life count, demands sacrifice.
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth.
Albert Schweitzer
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A truly spiritual man's creed is not live and let live, but live and help live.
Roger Babson
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You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity. If you can be absolutely relied upon; if when you say a thing is so, it is so; if when you say you will do a thing, you do it; then you carry with you a passport to universal esteem.
Grenville Kleiser
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The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit; try to belong to the first class - there's far less competition.
Dwight Whitney Morrow
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To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered that chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents.
Sir Winston Churchill
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The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.
Jeff Olson
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Successful people fail their way to the top.
Jeff Olson
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How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.
Jeff Olson
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Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.
Jeff Olson
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There is a natural progression in life, which everyone knew intimately back in the days when we were an agrarian society. You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest.
Jeff Olson
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Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.
Jeff Olson
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Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.
Jeff Olson
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"Some day" doesn't exist, never has, and never will. There is no "some day". There's only today. When tomorrow comes, it will be another today; so will the next day. They all will. There is never anything but today.
Jeff Olson
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For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.
Jeff Olson
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
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When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.
Jeff Olson
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What you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.
Jeff Olson
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This above all, to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
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You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.
Jeff Olson
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do, and that often means living outside the limits of one's comfort zone.
Jeff Olson
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It can take a good amount of energy and initiative to get yourself started in a new activity - but it takes far, far less to keep yourself doing it once you've started.
Jeff Olson
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Your optimal rate of growth is always served best by a step-by-step approach of constant, never-ending improvement, which lays solid foundations and builds upon them over and over.
Jeff Olson
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Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood.
Jeff Olson
Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.
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A surefire way to be forced to live as a prisoner of your past is not to complete things.
Jeff Olson
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There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don't.
Jeff Olson
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Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.
Jeff Olson
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The job of a scientist is to generate wrong ideas as fast as possible.
Murray Gell-Mann
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson Rockefeller
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Colton
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles Eliot
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry Truman
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
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You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.
Jeff Olson
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If you aren't doing, you're dying. Life is doing.
Jeff Olson
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Find people who've done what you want to do and surround yourself with them.
Jeff Olson
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Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.
Jeff Olson
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.
Jeff Olson
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
Denis Waitley
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Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
Thomas Murphy
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker Washington
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth. Most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight Eisenhower
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield
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Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Seneca
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell
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Our country can not exist on the renunciation of the heroic souls of the past. Public service, from the action of the humblest voter to the most exalted office, can not be made a mere matter of hire and salary. The supporters of our institutions must be inspired by a more dominent motive than a conviction that their actions are going to be profitable. We can not lower our standards to what we think will pay, but we must raise them to what we think is right. It is only in that direction that we shall find true patriotism.
Calvin Coolidge
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny.
Calvin Coolidge
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization.
Calvin Coolidge
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Our country has not ceased to glory in its strength, but it has come to a realization that it must have something more than numbers and wealth, something more than a fleet and an army, to satisfy the longing of the soul. It knows that to power must be added wisdom, and to greatness must be added morality.
Calvin Coolidge
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The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
Calvin Coolidge
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Everyone ought to realize that the sole source of national wealth is thrift and industry, and that the sole supply of the public treasury is the toil of the people.
Calvin Coolidge
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.
Calvin Coolidge
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Let this nation, under your influence, be a finer nation. Resolve that the sacrifices by which your great opportunities have been purchased will be matched by a sacrifice, on your part, that will give your children even a better chance.
Calvin Coolidge
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I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.
Calvin Coolidge
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The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.
Calvin Coolidge
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We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American.
Calvin Coolidge
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The governments of the past could fairly be characterized as devices for maintaining in perpetuity the place and position of certain privileged classes, without any ultimate protection for the rights of the people. The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge
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We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
Calvin Coolidge
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There is a place both present and future in America for true, clean sport. We do not rank it above business, the occupations of our lives, and we do not look with approval upon those who, not being concerned in its performance, spend all their thought, energy and time upon its observance. We recognize, however, that there is something more in life than the grinding routine of daily toil, that we can develop a better manhood and womanhood, a more attractive youth, and a wiser maturity, by rounding out our existence with a wholesome interest in sport.
Calvin Coolidge
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In our land the people rule. The great truth cannot be too often repeated that this nation is exactly what the people make it. It is necessary to realize that our duties are personal.
Calvin Coolidge
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When the government goes into business it lays a tax on everybody else in that business, and uses the money that it collects from its competitors to establish a monopoly and drive them out of business.
Calvin Coolidge
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
Calvin Coolidge
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There are only two main theories of government in the world. One rests on righteousness, the other rests on force. One appeals to reason, the other appeals to the sword.
Calvin Coolidge
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The ability for self-government is arrived at only through an extensive training and education.
Calvin Coolidge
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The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man. Of course we can help to restrain the vicious and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reforms which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of our religious convictions, or they will not come at all.
Calvin Coolidge
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I regard a good budget as among the noblest monuments of virtue.
Calvin Coolidge
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The best service we can do for the needy and the unfortunate is to help them in such manner that their self-respect, their ability to help themselves, shall not be injured but augmented.
Calvin Coolidge
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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
Calvin Coolidge
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yu Tang
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Henry David Thoreau
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight Eisenhower
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
Jean Houston
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
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The right action of all of us is made up of the right action of each one of us. Unless each of us is determined to meet the duty that comes to us, we can have no right to expect that others will meet the duties that come to them.
Calvin Coolidge
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The purpose of a campaign is to send an intelligent and informed voter to the ballot box.
Calvin Coolidge
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Wealth is the product of industry, ambition, character and untiring effort.
Calvin Coolidge
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So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it.
Calvin Coolidge
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Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity.
Calvin Coolidge
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The wise and correct course to follow in taxation and all other economic legislation is not to destroy those who have already secured success but to create conditions under which every one will have a better chance to be successful.
Calvin Coolidge
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Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Jim Rohn
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I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
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We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.
Calvin Coolidge
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Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been dedicated by long practice to that wise and beneficent policy. It is the foundation principle of our system of liberty. It makes the largest promise to the freedom and development of the individual. Its preservation is worth all the effort and all the sacrifice that it may cost.
Calvin Coolidge
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It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form correct judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
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It is my firm conviction that the duty of national defense, like the general duty of citizenship, should be broadly extended and borne by all our people. We do not believe in or wish to bear the expense of maintaining large standing military forces.
Calvin Coolidge
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It is exactly because we wish to keep our standing forces small that the average citizen must give some attention to military affairs, precisely as he gives some attention to other government affairs, in order that he may express a deliberate and informed judgment at the ballot box.
Calvin Coolidge
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The policy of peace through reason rather than peace through force is one in which America has taken and ought always to continue to take a leading part.
Calvin Coolidge
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We should not forget that in the world over the general attitude and one of the strongest attributes of all peoples is a desire to do right. Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil. We shall make no progress and be of no benefit to ourselves or to anyone else.
Calvin Coolidge
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I am not unfamiliar with the claim that if only we had a sufficient military establishment no one would ever molest us. I know of no nation in history that has ever been able to attain that position. I see no reason to expect that we could be the exception. Although I believe thoroughly in adequate military preparations, what I am trying to argue is that they are not sufficient unto themselves.
Calvin Coolidge
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If we are to promote peace on earth, we must have a great deal more than the power of the sword. We must call into action the spiritual and moral forces of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge
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Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
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The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self-esteem of the person riding in it.
Denis Waitley
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The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
Denis Waitley
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If what is saved in the productive peace of today is to be lost in the destructive war of tomorrow, the people of this earth can look forward to nothing but everlasting servitude.
Calvin Coolidge
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If we are to have that harmony and tranquility, that union of spirit which is the foundation of real national genius and national progress, we must all realize that there are true Americans who did not happen to be born in our section of the country, who do not attend our place of religious worship, who are not of our racial stock, or who are not proficient in our language. If we are to create on this continent a free republic and an enlightened civilization that will be capable of reflecting the true greatness and glory of mankind, it will be necessary to regard these differences as accidental and unessential.
Calvin Coolidge
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Divine Providence has not bestowed upon any race a monopoly of patriotism and character.
Calvin Coolidge
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In spite of all the arguments in favor of great military forces, no nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or to insure its victory in time of war. No nation ever will.
Calvin Coolidge
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It is our purpose in our intercourse with foreign powers to rely not on the strength of our fleets and our armies but on the justice of our cause.
Calvin Coolidge
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Whenever the military power starts dictating to the civil authority, by whatsoever means adopted, the liberties of the country are beginning to end.
Calvin Coolidge
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Unless the people are willing to defend their country because of their belief in it, because of their affection for it, and because it is representative of their home, their country can not be defended.
Calvin Coolidge
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Progress tends very largely on the encouragement of variety. Whatever tends to standardize the community, to establish fixed and rigid modes of thought, tends to fossilize society.
Calvin Coolidge
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Whether one traces his Americanisms back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
Calvin Coolidge
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We are not likely to improve our own condition or help humanity very much until we come to the sympathetic understanding that human nature is about the same everywhere, that it is rather evenly distributed over the surface of the earth, and that we are all united in a common brotherhood.
Calvin Coolidge
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Great men belong to humanity. They are the incarnation of the truth.
Calvin Coolidge
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When government enters the field of business with its great resources, it has a tendency to extravagance and inefficiency, but, having the power to crush all competitors, likewise closes the door of opportunity and results in monopoly.
Calvin Coolidge
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No matter how it is disguised, the moment the government engages in buying and selling, by that act it is fixing prices.
Calvin Coolidge
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It is not through selfishness or wastefulness or arrogance, but through self-denial, conservation, and service, that we shall build up the American spirit.
Calvin Coolidge
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One of the chief dangers to the success of popular government is that it will throw away self-restraint and self-control and adopt laws which, being without sound economic foundation, bring on such a financial distress as to result in want, misery, disorder, and the dissolution of society.
Calvin Coolidge
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
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Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.
Nido Qubein
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It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.
Calvin Coolidge
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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
Calvin Coolidge
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I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
Calvin Coolidge
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It does not follow that because something ought to be done the national government ought to do it.
Calvin Coolidge
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert Heinlein
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
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There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
Richard Rybolt
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
Howard Newton
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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Mark Twain
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
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I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
William DeMille
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
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No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster
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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat - men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
James Garfield
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The man who is worthy of being "a leader of men" will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat - that is the final proof of power.
William Boetcker
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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard work.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
Edmund Burke
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