"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Frost, Robert on diplomacy
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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

Carver, George Washington on failure
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"To truly follow your dreams, you must be tenacious; and have fun along the way as much as possible."

Flanagan, Jerry on goal
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"There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things."

Unknown, Source on cheerfulness
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison, Thomas A. on genius
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"Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."

Walters, J. Donald on acceptance
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"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure"

Baryshnikov, Mikhail on art
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"Character is more important than intelligence for success."

Beaux, Gilberte on success
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"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."

Bell, Alexander Graham on success
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."

Lowell, James Russell on common sense
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"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."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole."

Unknown, Source on job
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"Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out."

Ormont, Jules on job
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat."

Tomlin, Lily on job
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"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."

Keller, Helen on opportunity
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"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

Tracy, Brian on luck
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"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."

Roddick, Anita on excellence   

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

Allen, James on dream
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"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -the pig was 'committed"

Unknown on commitment
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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on love
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"One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Carroll, Lewis on belief
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"All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on patience
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"If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity."

Kennedy, John F. on conflict
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"Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

Hubbard, Elbert on nations
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"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on work
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"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on happiness
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"You must do the thing that you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on impossibility
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"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on friends and friendship
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on dream
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"No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. [On Eleanor Roosevelt]"

Luce, Clare Boothe on comfort