"If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything."

Brown, Les on purpose
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"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on purpose
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"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on purpose
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always."

Unknown, Source on beginning
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"Every individual is the architect of his own fortune."

Claudius, Appius on fortune   

"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

Fadiman, Clifton on wine
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"They that envy others are their inferiors."

Saying on envy
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"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on faults
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"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fear
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on feelings
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"If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on forgiveness
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"Only law can give us freedom."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on freedom
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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on goals
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"Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on goals
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hatred
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"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on health
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"The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on heroes and heroism
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"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on god
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"You cannot hold your head high with your hand out."

Proverb, Yiddish on pride   

"Doubt can only be removed by action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on dream
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."

Unknown, Source on reputation
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"Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you."

Steere, Bishop on thoughts and thinking
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on vanity
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"It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

Churchill, Winston on achievement
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

Collier, Robert on adversity
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

Hoffer, Eric on self-sabotage
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"We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for."

Hoffer, Eric on purpose
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."

Johnson, John on hope
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

Melville, Herman on hope
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"Where no hope is left, is left no fear."

Milton, John on hope
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"Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey."

Ouida on hope   

"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."

Proverb, French on hope
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