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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Boese, Paul on forgiveness
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on adversity
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"God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs."

Stowell, Joseph on god
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"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."

Jefferson, Thomas on strength
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America."

Carter, Jimmy on human rights
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"In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit."

Musashi, Miyamoto on courage    Share

"No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit."

Brightman, Edgar Sheffield on tyranny    Share

"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-confidence
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"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."

Long, Lazarus on self-confidence
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."

Korda, Michael on success
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"Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these."

Burroughs, John on temperament    Share

"At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work."

Syrus, Publilius on work    Share

"None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness."

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti on passion    Share

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again."

Unknown, Source on perseverance    Share

"Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up."

Smiles, Samuel on vision    Share

"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."

Aurelius, Marcus on anger
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"If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on failure
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Seneca on courage
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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."

Seneca on conflict
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"If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

Seneca on goals
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."

Rockefeller, John D. on opportunity    Share

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

Kaiser, Henry J. on opportunity
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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

Ford, Henry on failure
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"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. "

Angelou, Maya on complaining
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"Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."

Meir, Golda on opportunity
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"When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there."

Unknown, Source on perseverance    Share

"Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others."

Unknown, Source on happiness    Share

"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."

Corbett, James J. on perseverance
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"A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity."

Unknown, Source on opportunity
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"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"

Collier, Robert on opportunity    Share

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity
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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Hoffer, Eric on talent
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"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."

Sugarman, Joseph on opportunity
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