Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll'.
Denis Waitley
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James
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Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Friedrich von Schiller
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Cardinal Newman
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The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds are illuminated by the blazing sun of hope. They never stop to doubt. They haven't time.
Melvin Evans
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley
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What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.
Ralph Sockman
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The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.
Cicero
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There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
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Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.
Jim Rohn
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Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
Jim Rohn
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Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
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There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle; science without humanity; business without ethics.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
Kahlil Gibran
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A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character - that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.
Roger Babson
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Nature imitates itself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.
Blaise Pascal
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A great man leaves clean work behind him and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
Marion Burton
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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
Cicero
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Just as the real basics of human nature do not change from one generation to another, so the real basics of human leadership do not change from one leader to another - from one field to the next - but remain always and everywhere the same.
William Holler
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, not whence it came, but who should have it.
John Locke
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The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hancock
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
William Hazlitt
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All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
William Halsey
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Cicero
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
Jack Nicklaus
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Oprah Winfrey
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher
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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Joseph Thompson
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Law
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The greatest risk in life is to wait for and depend upon others for your own security.
Denis Waitley
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Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert Jarvik
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.
Denis Waitley
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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
Confucius
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Business is dependent upon action. It cannot go forward by hesitation. Those in executive positions must fortify themselves with facts and accept responsibility for decisions based upon them. Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
Harry Hopf
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We should place confidence in our employee. Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it. Any person in a managerial position, from supervisor to president, who feels that his employee is basically not as good as he is and who suspects his employee is always trying to put something over on him, lacks the necessary qualities for human leadership - to say nothing of human friendship.
Harry Humphreys
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For national leaders, it is sometimes easier to fight than to talk. Impatient cries for total victory are usually more popular than the patient tolerance required of a people whose leaders are seeking peaceful change down the intricate paths of diplomacy.
Harlan Cleveland
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This is what I found out about religion: it gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Dwight Eisenhower
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
Charles Hole
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He who gains victory over other men is strong, but he who gains a victory over himself is all-powerful.
Lao Tzu
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Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
David McKay
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
Joseph Newton
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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Anthony Trollope
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Patricia Sampson
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
Philip Massinger
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves.
Thomas Jefferson
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If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.
William Boetcker
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Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
William Feather
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Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things.
Seneca
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The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. Training counts. You can't win any game unless you are ready to win.
Connie Mack
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The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There is only one thing that will really train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself. You may aid him, you may guide him, you may suggest to him, and, above all else, you may inspire him. But the only thing worth having is that which he gets by his own exertions, and what he gets is in direct proportion to what he puts into it.
Albert Lowell
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To rule self and subdue our passions is the more praiseworthy because so few know how to do it.
Francesco Guicciardini
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
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Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max Forman
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Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority; they see it, and feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius
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The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Frank Ross
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Flattery is like cologne water - to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Josh Billings
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain
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Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
John Motley
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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
Sydney Harris
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The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry, and his environment and to become what he dreams of being.
Tully Knoles
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
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Often a dash of judgment is better than a flash of genius.
Howard Newton
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
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Great men are they who see the spiritual is stronger than the material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An expert is a man who knows just that much more about his subject than his associates. Most of us are nearer the top than we think. We fail to realize how easy it is, how necessary it is to learn that fraction more.
William Hutchin
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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Brougham
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The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.
Lucius Columell
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The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In any given society, the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
Pierre Proudhon
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It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, 'What are we busy about?'
Henry David Thoreau
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Stanton
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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
Harriet Martineau
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Thomas Overbury
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Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
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All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
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Big shots are little shots who kept shooting.
Christopher Morley
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Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?
Henry David Thoreau
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering, and more sagacious.
John Ruskin
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt
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A leader has two important characteristics; first, he is going somewhere; second, he is able to persuade other people to go with him.
Maximilien Robespierre
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard
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Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it.
Harry Truman
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Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work.
William Feather
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of the ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
Edwin Chapin
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One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
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He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.
Salvador de Madariaga
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There are only two powers in the world - the spirit and the sword; and in the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
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The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
Clive Staples Lewis
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
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I could use a hundred men who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
Henry Ford
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
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A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances.
Brian Tracy
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
George Clason
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The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.
Nido Qubein
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
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Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Lawrence Bell
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Marketing is not something you do to people, it’s something you do for people. Marketing is the service of helping people make the best possible decision.
George Silverman
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't work for the rabbit.
R. E. Shay
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In seasons of tumult and discord, bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
Tacitus
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It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
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Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Baron Wessenburg
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The history of liberty is the history of the limitations on the power of government.
Woodrow Wilson
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
Thomas Hobbes
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
Vincent van Gogh
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I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared.
Thomas Jefferson
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To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual profusion and servitude.
Thomas Jefferson
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If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Thomas Jefferson
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Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Ben Ames Williams
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The real danger of democracy is that the classes which have power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties - that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those who have.
William Graham Sumner
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There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us. It is not something we can get others to pay for us. To let others carry the responsibilities of freedom and the work and worry that accompany them - while we share only in the benefits - may be a very human impulse, but it is likely to be fatal.
Eugene Holman
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When a man decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. He must know first why he is doing it and then must proceed with his actions with no doubts or remorse.
Carlos Castaneda
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When you find a man who knows his job and is willing to take responsibility, keep out of his way and don't bother him with unnecessary supervision. What you may think is cooperation is nothing but interference.
Thomas Dreier
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A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry Ford
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The successful person is one who is able to take his talents and invest them in the business of living in a manner that leads to the accomplishment of a full life of service.
Sol Roth
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Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions are the chief mark of greatness.
Carlo Goldoni
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates
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The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable.
Confucius
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There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
Confucius
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A virtue and a muscle are alike. If neither of them is exercised they get weak and flabby.
Richard Rooney
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Good company and good discourse are the sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
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If you cry "forward," you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov
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The vision of things to be done may come a long time before the way of doing them becomes clear, but woe to him who distrusts the vision.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus Curtis
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A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
Lord Jeffery
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
John Wooden
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If you isolate your problem from others, your chances of solving it are thin. Problems require wisdom, and wisdom requires perspective. Other people provide that perspective.
Bill Russell
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Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
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Obviously there have been times when I've failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail.
Michael Jordan
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To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
Julius Erving
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Ambition is okay as long as you can control it. When it starts controlling you, you've got problems.
Red Auerbach
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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