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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Author: Geoffrey F. Fisher
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To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
Author: Bernard M. Martin
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Author: Galeazzo Ciano
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
Author: Damien Cannon
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Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.
Author: Scott Alexander
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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Author: Bernard Mandeville
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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
Author: Morris Bender
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Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
Author: Edward M. Forster
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Author: Roberta Flack
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There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.
Author: Robert Burdette
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.
Author: John Lancaster Spalding
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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
Author: Hilaire Belloc
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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Author: Nathaniel Emmons
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I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.
Author: Alistair Grant
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Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.
Author: Tom Hopkins
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People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
Author: Stuart Briscoe
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As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
Author: Thomas Guthrie
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
Author: King Charles I
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Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
Author: Olga Korbut
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In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.
Author: Walter Lippmann
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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Author: Max Frisch
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Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.
Author: Henry H. Haskins
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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.
Author: James Allen
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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.
Author: Frank Burford
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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.
Author: E. V. Cooke
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Author: Francis Crawford
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Author: Edward Dahlberg
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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Author: Charles J. Givens
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No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
Author: William E. Gladstone
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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.
Author: Roberto Goizueta
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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
Author: S. I. Hayakawa
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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.
Author: Robert S. Hillyer
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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.
Author: Tom Hobson
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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
Author: Lloyd Jones
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Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
Author: Eleanor Bron
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A fault is sooner found than mended.
Author: Ulpian Fulwell
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Author: Georg Hegel
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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
Author: James F. Bell
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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Author: Les Brown
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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
Author: Jean Bryant
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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, "Are you scared, too?" "You bet your sweet life I am." "Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too." We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, "Who else feels like this?" the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.
Author: Stan Dale
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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Author: Donald Downes
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He without fear is king of the world.
Author: E. E. Eddison
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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Author: Ed Foreman
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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
Author: Grace Hansen
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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.
Author: Joan C. Harvey
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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.
Author: Inuit Song
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Author: Elizabeth Drew
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