"Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged."

Cromwell, Oliver on approval   

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on war
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."

Picasso, Pablo on action
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"Success is a journey, not a destination."

Sweetland, Ben on success
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"No cross no crown."

Quarles, Francis on victory
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"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

Franklin, Benjamin on eyes
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"The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."

Patmore, Coventry on desire   

"By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]"

Bible on love
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"It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on circumstance
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"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."

Waitley, Denis on self-image
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"It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old."

Twain, Mark on rules
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"That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."

Berra, Yogi on uniqueness
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"We tend to get what we expect."

Peale, Norman Vincent on expectation   

"When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."

Seneca on speakers and speaking
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"The best way to know God is to love many things."

Gogh, Vincent Van on love
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on pessimism
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"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on heroes and heroism
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on friends and friendship
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"The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest."

Emmons, G. on weakness
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."

Montalvo, Juan on apathy
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"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa on suffering
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"False friends are worse than bitter enemies."

Proverb, Scottish on enemies
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"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."

Seabury, David on advice
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"Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best."

Palmer, Jim on losers and losing
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"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential."

Cardes, Liane on potential
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"Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas."

Proverb, American on influence
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"The only thing I can't stand is discomfort."

Steinem, Gloria on discomfort   

"If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything."

Bible on procrastination
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
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"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

Wrigley Jr., William on business
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"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

Churchill, Winston on character
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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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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"The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality."

Kierkegaard, Søren on quarrels
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"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."

Kierkegaard, Søren on fear
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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