"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense."

Addison, Joseph on nature
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"What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country."

Addison, Joseph on patriotism   

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on words
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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 Achieve Massive Success, you need to convert your wants into Needs."

Dharam on
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"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug."

D'Anconia, Francisco on adversity
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

Ball, Lucille on effort
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"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."

Kennedy, Robert F. on opposition
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"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

Morgan, John Pierpont on possibilities
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies."

Kennedy, Robert F. on change
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"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."

Kennedy, Robert F. on
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life."

Unknown, Source on hope
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"Know what you want. Become your real self."

Fink, David Harold on desire
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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."

Gibran, Kahlil on desire
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Hill, Napoleon on achievement
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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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"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

Plutarch on blame
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

Hemingway, Ernest on uncategorised
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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

Reagon, Bernice Johnson on challenges
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast."

Swindoll, Charles on difficulties
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"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on business
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."

Santayana, George on dignity
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"My father used to say: Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

Young, Stark on trust
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"When boasting ends, there dignity begins."

Young on dignity
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"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."

Walker, Alice on freedom
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"Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."

Nightingale, Earl on planning
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"The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray."

Gogh, Vincent Van on sea
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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Seneca on fear
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"The first wealth is health."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wealth
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"If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened."

Patton, George S. on fear   

"Don't trust the person who has broken faith once."

Shakespeare, William on trust
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"Love all, but trust a few."

Shakespeare, William on trust
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"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

Stimson, Henry Lewis on trust
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"Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

Proverb, Jewish on trust
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"He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave."

Arthorne, John on time   

"The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it."

Carlyle, Thomas on time
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