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A friend is there before you know it, to lend a hand before you ask it, and give you love just when you need it most.
* Unknown

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
* Isaac Bashevis Singer

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
* Orison Swett Marden

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
* Helen Keller

The spirit of man communes with Heaven; the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great?
* Hung Tzu-ch’eng

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
* Armand Hammer

Eventually, we all need to be willing to face the deepest, darkest beliefs we have about ourselves. Only in this way can we come to know that they are only beliefs, and not the truth about who we are.
* Ezra Bayda

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
* Benjamin Jowett

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The essense of a warrior is to build an indomitable spirit
and an iron will; to believe you cannot fail in doing anything.
* Miyamoto Musashi

The problem is not that there are problems.
The problem is in expecting otherwise and
thinking that having problems is a problem.
* Theodore Rubin

Life is a pure flame, and
we live by an invisible sun within us.
* Thomas Browne

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit,
the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter,
body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
* Swami Vivekananda

The worst bankrupt is the man who has lost his enthusiasm.
Let a man lose everything in the world but
his enthusiasm and will come through again to success.
* H. W. Arnold

Leadership usually gravitates to person who can say what he thinks.
* Anonymous

If everything seems under control,
you’re just not going fast enough.
* Mario Gabriele Andretti

The place to improve the world is first
in one’s own heart and head and hands.
* Robert M. Pirsig

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
* Martin Farquhar Tupper

Carry on, no matter what happens.
Hide your sorrows under a smile and carry on.
* Anonymous

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Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy
connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life,
and be directed in all thy ways.
* Akhenaton

As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of
wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
* Bhagavadgita

If we are to progress we must go forwards,
not backwards. We can look backwards,
we can learn from backwards, but we must not go backwards.
* Unknown

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
* Abraham Lincoln

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
* Cynthia Ozick

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-
power of the understanding.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed.
We came to rule; we are being ruled.
We came to work; we are being worked.
All the time, we find that.
And this comes into every detail of our life.
* Swami Vivekananda

Don’t carry a grudge. While you’re carrying the grudge the other guy’s out dancing.
* Buddy Hackett

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
* Walter Bagehot

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
* Flora Whittemore

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I’ve learned one thing during my time on the soccer fields:
It’s amazing how fast you can run
And the things you can do when you have a goal in mind.
It applies to the rest of my life, too.
* Jeremy Monnin

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
* Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than
the sudden flash of insight that leaves you
a changed person not only changed, but for the better.
* Arthur Gordon

We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
* Sam Keen Christine

The price of the democratic way of life is
a growing appreciation of people’s differences,
not merely as tolerable, but as
the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.
* Jerome Nathanson

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.
* Aristotle

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take
care of themselves.
* Lord Chesterfield

There’s no limit to what a man can achieve,
if he doesn’t care who gets the credit.
* J. Laing Burns, Jr.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
* Edmund Hillary

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous
breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
* Bertrand Russell

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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
the mind can achieve.
* Napoleon Hill

Freedom from the desire for an answer
is essential to the understanding of a problem.
* Jiddu Krishnamurti

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal
knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of
gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
* Gouthama Buddha

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants
* Epicurus

A good intention clothes itself with power.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know a truth well,
one must have fought it out.
* Novalis

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
* Elbert Hubbard

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
* Alfred Tennyson

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes?
I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
* Epictetus

The wise learn from the experience of others,
and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
* Eric Hoffer

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A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
* Robert Louis Stevenson

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
* Theodore Roosevelt

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
* J. K. Rowling

The way of devotion is not different from
the way of knowledge, or Jnana. When intelligence matures and
lodges securely in the mind it becomes wisdom. When wisdom is
integrated with life and becomes action it becomes Bhakti.
Knowledge when it becomes fully mature is Bhakti.
To believe that Jnana and Bhakti, knowledge and
devotion, are different from each other is ignorance.
* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time.
Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
* Swami Vivekananda

People are okay,
it is their behavior that’s a problem sometimes.
* Ken Blanchard

Time is really the only capital that any human being has,
and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
* Thomas Alva Edison

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.
* Cicero

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people,
but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
* John Buchan

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke.
He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied
with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
* I Ching

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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once,
will never do anything.
* Samuel Johnson

Most People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
* Abraham Lincoln

Never frown because you never know
who might be falling in love with your smile.
* Justine Milton

You are not what you think you are,
but what you think, you are.
* Norman Vincent Peale

You never conquer a mountain.
You stand on the summit a few moments;
then the wind blows your footprints away.
* Arlene Blum

Spend time daily doing something you enjoy.
Do those things that bring inner peace.
Learn to laugh heartily and frequently.
Cultivate an attitude of hope.
Fill each day with as much love as it can possibly hold.
* Steve Goodier

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
* Samuel Butler

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight,
it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
* Mark Twain

If you believe you have a foolproof system,
you’ve falied to take into consideration the creativity of fools!
* Frank W. Abagnale

We should all be concerned about the future because
we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
* Charles F. Kettering

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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne

The spirit of a person’s life is ever shedding some power,
just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
* T. Starr King

If you can’t state your position in
eight words or less, you don’t have a position.
* Seth Godin

Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others, whenever they go.
* Oscar Wilde

It is only when we forget all
our learning that we begin to know.
* Henry David Thoreau

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
* Eleanor Roosevelt

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
* Thomas Dekker

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our
gratitude.
* Cynthia Ozick

Begin with another’s to end with your own.
* Baltasar Gracian

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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical
and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
* Herbert Spencer

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone,
and whatever happens is the result of the whole
tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of
individual threads from one to another that creates something.
* Sandra Day O’Connor

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion.
* Philip Wylie

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of
mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all
the work using you as a mere instrument.
* Bhagavadgita

Who sees all beings in his own Self,
and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
* The Upanishads

Conscience is the root of all true courage;
if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
* James Freeman Clarke

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
* Sean O Casey

Don’t let the bozos grind you down.
* Guy Kawasaki

It is not the brains that matter most,
but that which guides them – the character,
the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
* Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what
will become of you, depend on no one.Only the moment you reject all
help are you free.
* Swami Vivekananda

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An expert is a man who has made all the
mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
* Niels Bohr

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
* Arthur Koestler

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
* Benjamin Franklin

You cannot be a creator and a victim.
* Unknown

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy,
in whatever situation I may be; for I have also
learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness
or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
* Martha Washington

If you think about disaster, you will get it.
Brood about death and you hasten your demise.
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith,
and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action,
richer in achievement and experience.
* Edward Rickenbacker

If you have the same ideas as everybody else
but have them one week earlier than everyone
else then you will be hailed as a visionary.
But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
* Barry Jones

The most gifted members of the human species are
at their creative best when they cannot have their way,
and most compensate for what they miss by
realizing and cultivating their capabilities and talents.
* Eric Hoffer

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
* Mary Kay Ash

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything:
“I will try” has accomplished wonders.
* George P. Burnham

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