"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Others have done it before me. I can, too."

Faunce, Corporal John on ability
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"Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential."

Brown, Les on adversity   

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Robinson, Eddie on achievement
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"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."

Montagu, Ashley on potential
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"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future."

Ferguson, Marilyn on potential   

"In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it."

Peale, Norman Vincent on difficulties   

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential."

Cardes, Liane on potential
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

Gibbon, Edward on ability
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"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."

Carnegie, Dale on fatigue
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"Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you."

Peale, Norman Vincent on resentment
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."

Berkowitz, Bernard on appreciation
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"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood."

Medawar, Sir Peter on change   

"Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself."

Valery, Paul on self-sabotage
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"It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats on risk
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"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Buddha on anger
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"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron."

Johnson, Samuel on scholars and scholarship   

"Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus]"

Bible on envy
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"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Waitley, Denis on parents and parenting
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"There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray."

Joubert, Joseph on humor   

"You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down."

Bradbury, Ray on courage
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"Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us."

Bach, Dr. Marcus on success
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest on adversity
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on dream
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"If you never budge, don't expect a push."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on risk
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"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

Alda, Alan on risk
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"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."

Maltz, Maxwell on obstacles
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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on ideals and idealism
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"The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out."

Stine, Richard on risk
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"Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful."

Shakespeare, William on risk   

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

Scully, Frank on risk
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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

Sarton, May on risk
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"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

Ovid on risk
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"Never tell me the odds."

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo on risk
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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."

James, William on risk
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"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."

Allen, Woody on risk
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Anderson, Walter on risk
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"You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path."

Brown, Les on risk
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