"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Hull, Raymond on approval
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"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."

Teresa of Avila, St. on prayer
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"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

Curtis, George William on patriotism   

"One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse."

Hagerty, James on self-talk   

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

Nevill, Dorothy on conversation
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"Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own."

Gordon, Adam Lindsay on life
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"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

Holtz, Lou on attitude
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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on pessimism
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

Ovid on change
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"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Nin, Anais on friends and friendship
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"If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own."

Cecil, Richard on punctuality   

"Better never than late."

Shaw, George Bernard on punctuality   

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"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."

Bell, Alexander Graham on determination
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"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

Mandino, Og on happiness
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

Reagan, Ronald on politics   

"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."

Proverb, Chinese on direction
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"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

Wooden, John on planning
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"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

Wein, Len on friends and friendship
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"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

Kennedy, John F. on elections
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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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"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."

Miller, Henry on destiny
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"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."

Catherwood, Mary on relationship
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"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. "

Sheehan, George on running
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity."

Tracy, Brian on integrity
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"Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom."

Ward, William A. on wisdom
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"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."

Socrates on senses
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

Marx, Groucho on dogs
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"Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."

Thoreau, Henry David on death   

"Flattery is all right if you don't inhale."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on flattery   

"When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on possibilities
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