The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
Colin Powell
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.
Robert Edwards
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
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Reprove a friend in secret, but praise him before others.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
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One of the advantages of being young is that you don't let common sense get in the way of doing things that everybody knows are impossible.
Anonymous
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Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.
Herbert Hawkes
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
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The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
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How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than 60 years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Smith
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He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.
Thomas Secker
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
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If religion does nothing for your temper, it has done nothing for your soul.
Robert Clayton
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Clive Staples Lewis
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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
William Somerset Maugham
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
Laurence Peter
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson
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Character is not made in a crisis - it is only exhibited.
Robert Freeman
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
J. Petit-Sinn
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The strength of a man consists in finding the way God is going and going that way.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage that it contained.
John Stuart Mill
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Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced on you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
Elbert Hubbard
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The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: "Nine out of ten people improve on acquaintance," and I have found his words true.
Frank Swinnerton
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides
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It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Herbert Hoover
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There are two times in a man's life when he shouldn't speculate: when he can afford to and when he can't.
Mark Twain
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Rather to go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
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Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best.
Kin Hubbard
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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her way, and the other, to let her have it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
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It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jacki Joyner-Kersee
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Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.
Stephen Covey
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Hale
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
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Everything that you ever learned of value in the profession of selling, regarding your product or service, or personality, is only helpful to the degree to which it contributes to the building of high quality relationships with customers.
Brian Tracy
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There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and peace.
Bourke Cockran
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
André Maurois
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
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It is no profit to have learned well if you neglect to do well.
Publilius Syrus
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Evan Esar
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
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Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag.
Jay Leno
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Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
Tom Clancy
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
Frederic Bastiat
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Honesty is like food. Both are necessary, but too much of either creates discomfort.
Scott Adams
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Conversation is more than the sum of the words. It is also a way of signaling the importance of another person by showing your willingness to give that person your rarest resource: time.
Scott Adams
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There's only one story in life for which you'll have every answer: the truth. If you live an exemplary life, and do what you're supposed to do, you walk down the block and you don't worry if someone is tapping you on the shoulder asking a question.
Bob Hurley
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Wouldn’t it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for one another, rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats?
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The difference between success and failure is the difference between thought and action.
Praveen Sherman
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue will always continue.
John Dryden
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is always better to be an original than an imitation.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I am in favor of Federal deficits, if the alternative is higher taxes. I am in favor of lower taxes, even if these lead to higher deficits. I think the Federal government will not cut spending for any reason but one: bankruptcy. So, as long as the beast is going to spend money, it might as well raise it by borrowing. Let the people who trust the government wind up as creditors to the government. When the government defaults, one way or the other, those hurt most will be those who trusted politicians the most. This is as it should be. There is a kind of raw justice in the arrangement.
Gary North
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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
Ann Radcliffe
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
Ann Radcliffe
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
Charles Dickens
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
Ann Radcliffe
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