"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

Luther, Martin on eternity
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"People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within"

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler on adversity
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"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

Dune, Frank Herbert on adversity
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on adversity
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"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."

Havner, Vance on adversity
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."

Aesop on family
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"We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on peace
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on achievement
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"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on adversity
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa on suffering
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"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

Frost, Robert on power
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"No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen."

Proverb, Jewish on listening
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"The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain."

Proverb, Chinese on age and aging
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends."

Proverb, Chinese on friends and friendship
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"A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing."

Proverb, Jewish on friends and friendship   

"Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side."

Proverb, Jewish on fools and foolishness
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"Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass."

Santaguida, Paul on life
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"I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet."

Proverb, Jewish on complaints and complaining
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul."

Ford, Elias A. on adversity
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"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on adversity
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"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."

France, Anatole on adversity
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it."

Lehrer, Tom on life
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."

Waitley, Denis on past
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"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes."

Waitley, Denis on mistakes