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There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
Author: Buck Rodgers
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They're only truly great who are truly good.
Author: George Chapman
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There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
Author: Janet Erskine Stuart
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Author: Gail Sheehy
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Author: Frank Herbert
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An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Author: Michael Korda
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If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.
Author: William Arthur Ward
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To change and to change for the better are two different things.
Author: German Proverb
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The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Author: Flora Whittemore
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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Author: Pogo
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It's always too early to quit.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Author: Mcalexander
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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Author: Thomas Fuller
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of Madame Swetchine.
Author: Madame Swetchine
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I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
Author: Carry Nation
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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
Author: Thomas Fuller
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Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.
Author: Margaret Weis
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Author: Vaclav Havel
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After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Author: Bertha Von Suttner
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America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. - The Lonely Crowd.
Author: David Riesman
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!
Author: Robert Benchley
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Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Author: B. F. Skinner
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Author: Colin Wilson
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... then the world 's mine oyster.
Author: James Stephens
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As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Author: Ovid
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Author: Andre Norton
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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Author: Stanislaw J. Lec
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Author: Samuel Hoffenstein
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Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
Author: John Galsworthy
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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Author: Libbie Fudim
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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a
function.
Author: Garrison Keillor
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In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostat
in which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 degrees-is
called the "Comfort Zone." It's also known as the "Dead
Zone.".
Author: Russell Bishop
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are
taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Author: Paula Poundstone
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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage
unless you're scared.
Author: Eddie Rickenbacker
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Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
Author: Sir Lawrence Olivier
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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and
fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
Author: David Augsnurger
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Author: David H Comins
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Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship
smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness without
pain.
Author: Carl G Jung
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There can be no transforming of darkness into light and
of apathy into movement without emotion.
Author: Carl G Jung
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The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man
does not get much further.
Author: Sir Heneage Ogilvie
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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why
deprive somebody who really loves it.
Author: Dobie Gillis
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise
man speaks.
Author: Ben Jonson
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Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave
the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
Author: Chief Seattle
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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.
Author: Harry Truman
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Love without attachment is light.
Author: Norman O Brown
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
Author: William Feather
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we
hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about
us.
Author: Quentin Crisp
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Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Author: Quentin Crisp
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their
whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method
of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists
solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Author: Quentin Crisp
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