"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs."

Lasorda, Tommy on worry   

"Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning."

Dupuy, Alexis on marriage
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"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."

Frost, Robert on choice
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"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on joy
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"Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."

Shakespeare, William on knowledge
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."

Adams, George M. on courage   

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."

Arthur, William on courage
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"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century."

Madwed, Sidney on courage
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"You cannot be lost on a road that is straight."

Proverb on direction
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"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."

Proverb on advice
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"If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done."

Proverb on age and aging
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"Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt."

Proverb on debt
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"Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. [Psalm 119:105]"

Bible on direction
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"It is better to run back than run the wrong way."

Proverb on direction
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"If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well."

Proverb on effort
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"Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing."

Proverb on enemies
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"When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick."

Proverb on failure
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"Many lick before they bite."

Proverb on flattery
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"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic."

Ballou, Hosea on preachers and preaching
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"That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on preachers and preaching   

"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Barker, Joel A. on leadership
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"When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen."

Morgan, John Pierpont on expectation   

"Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world."

Gardner, George on thoughts and thinking   

"Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do."

Gray, Albert on winners and winning
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"Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not."

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich on god   

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pine on immortality
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"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Lincoln, Abraham on life
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn'"

Lewis, C. S. on difficulties
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"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

Lewis, C. S. on pride
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

Lewis, C. S. on hell
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"He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level."

Fox, Charles James on guilt
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"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."

Moody, Dwight L. on reputation
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