"Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."

Billings, Josh on perseverance
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"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless."

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"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are."

Godwin, Gail on experience   

"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."

Cary, Joyce on death
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco on uniqueness
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on gifts
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on mistakes
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."

Confucius on faults
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!"

Flagg, Fannie on criticism
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"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."

Hoffer, Eric on freedom
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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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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"If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on control
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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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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
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"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of"

Hoffer, Eric on achievement
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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"Simplicity is the seal of truth."

Proverb on simplicity
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"An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten."

Rourke, Constance on humor
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"They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent."

Franklin, Benjamin on vigilance
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age."

Einstein, Albert on age and aging
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

Franklin, Benjamin on poverty and the poor
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"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on achievement
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