You can't sharpen a razor on a piece of velvet, and you can't sharpen a man by spoon-feeding him.
Zig Ziglar
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Gentlemen, for the first time in the history of this campaign, we are now in a position to attack the enemy in any direction.
General Creighton Abrams
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You can't do everything at once, but you can do something at once.
Zig Ziglar
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When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
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All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, "This is the only area where I let down." Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.
Jim Rohn
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
Sidney Harris
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
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A transition person is one who breaks the flow of bad - the negative traditions or harmful practices that get passed from generation to generation, or from situation to situation, whether in a family, a workplace, a community, or wherever. Transition persons transcend their own needs and tap into the deepest, most noble impulses of human nature. In times of darkness, they are lights, not judges; models, not critics. In periods of discord, they are change catalysts, not victims; healers, not carriers. Today's world needs more transition persons. Trust yourself to become one of the best, and watch your influence grow.
Stephen Covey
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Pythagoras
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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The first choice we make each and every day is, "Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?"
Stephen Covey
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
Stephen Covey
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Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.
Stephen Covey
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While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.
Stephen Covey
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While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.
Stephen Covey
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
James Thurber
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Discover your uniqueness. Learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.
Larry Winget
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While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
James Cabell
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Nothing is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.
John McCain
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa
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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving: as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We all have something to give. So if you know how to read, find someone who can't. If you've got a hammer, find a nail. If you're not hungry, not lonely, not in trouble - seek out someone who is.
George Herbert Walker Bush
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The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.
Warren Buffett
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Ferdinand Foch
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope
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I hear people say: "Oh, if I were only rich, I would do great things to help people." But we can all be rich in love and generosity. Moreover, if we give with care, if we find out the exact wants of those who need our help most, we are giving our own loving interest and concern, which is worth more than all the money in the world.
Albert Schweitzer
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It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
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When your ability to control external events is limited or nonexistent, you must learn to control your inner responses.
Anonymous
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You can't climb the ladder of success with cold feet.
Zig Ziglar
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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
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Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.
Jim Rohn
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Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for fewer challenges; wish for more wisdom.
Jim Rohn
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Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word "no" mean to a child? Almost nothing.
Jim Rohn
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The dead take to the grave, clutched in their hands, only what they have given away.
DeWitt Wallace
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I find life an exciting business - and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe
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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
Gaylord Nelson
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To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Abraham Lincoln
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Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucker
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Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions, but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.
Nido Qubein
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. If a business does this in sufficient quantity and with proper cost controls, it will make a profit. The profit is the result of creating and keeping customers efficiently.
Brian Tracy
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Truth is, money doesn’t make you happy or a nice person, it just means you have the means to live the life you want. What kind of life is up to you, and that’s where some people crash and burn. They get money but they don’t have a clue about being a good person so they just make themselves and everyone around them miserable.
Phil Town
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My advice to salesmen is this: pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash
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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson
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When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.
Stephen Covey
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
Nelson Rockefeller
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Everybody's had disappointments, and anyone can rationalize his actions. But none of that matters. Blaming other people for your condition is a total waste of time.
Betty Ford
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If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.
Chuck Norris
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The tragic truth is that the language of "victimization" is the true victimizer - a great crippler of young minds and spirits. To teach young people that their lives are governed - not by their own actions, but by socioeconomic forces or government budgets or other mysterious and fiendish forces beyond their control - is to teach our children negativism, resignation, passivity, and despair.
Louis Sullivan
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
Dwight Eisenhower
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God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Anonymous
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Clive Staples Lewis
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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
Billy Graham
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Too much caution is bad for you. It is usually wiser to stand up to a scary-seeming experience and walk right into it, risking the bruises or hard knocks. You are likely to find it is not as tough as you had thought. Or you may find it plenty tough, but also discover you have what it takes to handle it.
Norman Vincent Peale
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There’s a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It’s a nonrenewable resource. Once you’ve spent it, and if you’ve spent it badly, it’s gone forever.
Neil Fiore
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Don’t ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don’t work very hard, or the people who aren’t as good as you, your competition shrinks dramatically.
Maggie Mason
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must understand the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
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Courage is about the management of fear, not the absence of fear.
Rudy Giuliani
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Don't let the sensation of fear convince you that you're too weak to have courage. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
John McCain
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If bravery is a quality which knows not fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.
George Patton
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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Fosdick
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
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Real freedom is not freedom from, but freedom for.
Robert Youngs
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Abigail Van Buren
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Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters.
Nathaniel Emmons
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
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Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
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Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one sees or appreciates.
Brian Tracy
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
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Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjöld
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The time is always right to do what is right.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices.
Margaret Jensen
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
Anonymous
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In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
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To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
Edward Murrow
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
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Perfect valor is to do without witness what one would do before all the world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.
John Bogle
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
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Remember that the opportunity for great deeds may never come, but the opportunity for good deeds is renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
F. W. Faber
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Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.
E. D. Hulse
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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket-watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Lord Chesterfield
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We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. Nearly all those evils which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of pride.
Clive Staples Lewis
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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A hundred times a day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving.
Albert Einstein
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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
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To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
Stephen Covey
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To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
Leigh Hunt
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What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Seneca
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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
Benjamin Graham
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
David Lloyd George
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You must get good at one of two things: sowing in the spring or begging in the fall.
Jim Rohn
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Anonymous
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
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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.
Helen Keller
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Workaholics are addicted to activity; superachievers are committed to results.
Charles Garfield
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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.
Arthur Levitt
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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Napoleon Hill
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The unlearned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Robert Savage
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
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To see all without looking; to hear all without listening; to be attentive without being servile; to anticipate without being presumptuous.
César Ritz
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
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The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
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Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
William Feather
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This typxwritxr is xxcxllxnt xxcxpt for onx kxy. Thx 25 othxr lxttxrs work finx; but just onx goof-off lousxs up thx wholx job.
William D. Xllis
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Nothing great and durable has ever been produced with ease. Labor is the parent of all the lasting monuments of the world, whether in verse or in stone, in poetry or in pyramids.
Thomas Moore
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The body of every organization is structured from four kinds of bones. There are the wishbones, who spend all their time wishing someone would do the work. Then there are the jawbones, who do all the talking, but little else. The knucklebones knock everything anybody else tries to do. Fortunately, in every organization there are also the backbones, who get under the load and do most of the work.
Leo Aikman
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
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Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
Benjamin Franklin
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Steve Jobs
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - when he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
Harry Truman
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain
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All men are born free and equal - free at least in their right to be different. Some people want to homogenize society everywhere. I'm against the homogenizers in art, in politics, in every walk of life. I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.
James Fredericks
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Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
Helen Keller
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Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank Clark
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives.
Stephen Covey
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Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.
Jim Rohn
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We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your money a dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures. You can't buy much of value a dollar at a time.
Jim Rohn
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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
Stephen Covey
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Everyone you meet has some interest you don't have. The judicious use of ears will suffice to acquire it.
William Somerset Maugham
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does. If you chat with him a while, gradually building up the argument and the intonation, he relishes it so that he will roll all around the floor, lie on his back kicking and groaning with joyous worship. Very few wives are so affected.
Christopher Morley
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Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
Henry Ford
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Charlie Brower
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No person was ever honored for what they received. Honor has been the reward for what they gave.
Calvin Coolidge
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert Schuller
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You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
Les Brown
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A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.
Denis Waitley
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Make every goal clear, specific, measurable, and time bounded.
Brian Tracy
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
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Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Most of us would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban
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You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Doug Floyd
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
William Arthur Ward
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
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Everybody at some point is going to have adversity. I think if we don't learn from that, then it was just a penalty. But if you use it, then it becomes tuition.
Dr. Phil McGraw
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Doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without immediate risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.
Thomas Watson Jr.
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There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.
Mike Leavitt
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker Washington
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We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.
Stephen Covey
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People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie.
Stephen Covey
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca
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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Ann Landers
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Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to become angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy.
Aristotle
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
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The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.
Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
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When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
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I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic. People know this and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Dave Barry
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There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as that of revenge.
H. B. Shaw
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Chapin
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.
Ann Landers
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is a fine line between persistence and obstinacy. I have come to realize the key is to choose a problem that is worth persistent effort.
Dr. Judah Folkman
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
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We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes.
Buckminster Fuller
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Most people don't think in terms of minutes. They waste all the minutes. Nor do they think in terms of their whole life. They operate in the mid-range of hours or days. So they start over again every week, and spend another chunk unrelated to their lifetime goals. They are doing a random walk through life, moving without getting anywhere.
Alan Lakein
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Lose an hour in the morning and you will be looking for it the rest of the day.
Lord Chesterfield
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What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
Hugh Mulligan
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Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.
Harvey Mackay
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
Harold B. Lee
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I am convinced both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely.
Henry David Thoreau
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
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To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.
William Gladstone
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
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We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
Seneca
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The primary danger of the TV screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as in the behavior it prevents.
Urie Bronfenbrenner
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Every now and then, go away, take a little relaxation, because when you come back to your work, your judgment will be surer. To remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgment. Go some distance away, because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Robert Fulghum
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Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
Bob Moawad
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David Comins
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Bertha Calloway
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The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Lee Iacocca
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
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For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Marilyn Barrick
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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
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