"Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win."

Conner, Mike on risk   

"Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

Frost, Robert on risk
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"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

Gretzky, Wayne on risk
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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."

Martin, Bernard M. on loneliness
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"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."

Francis, Brendan on loneliness
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"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow."

Fitch, Janet on loneliness   

"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."

Hoffer, Eric on age and aging
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"We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen."

Rainer, Maria Rilke on opportunity   

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on love
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"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

James, William on perseverance
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"Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes."

Unknown, Source on problems   

"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."

Tracy, Brian on determination
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"You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you."

Vereen, Ben on idleness   

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?"

Carnegie, Dale on worry
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"It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize."

Covey, Stephen R. on character
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Angelou, Maya on aggression
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Rohn, Jim on joy
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"It is better to rust out than wear out."

Whitefield, George on action   

"Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on passion
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"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office."

Aesop on respectability
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"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."

Crisp, Quentin on respectability   

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week."

Richards, Charles on time   

"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on difficulties
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"The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in."

Copeland, William Taylor on opportunity
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"She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it."

Almanac, Mary S. on possibilities
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"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."

Blake, William on possibilities
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on change
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"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place."

Bellin, Gita on change
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."

Collier, Robert on success
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on relationship
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"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

Buddha on self-esteem
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"Work your way up or rust your way out."

Holton on work   

"Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it"

Gables, Anne Of Green on life
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"There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out."

Jones, Rufus M. on faith
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