"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

Voltaire on virginity
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"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."

Addison, Joseph on contentment
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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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"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."

Clark, Frank A. on gratitude
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"Kindness and hard work will take you further than intelligence. "

Bana, Mervyn on
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"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion."

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"live as if your were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better."

Holtz, Lou on criticism
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"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

Holtz, Lou on attitude
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"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."

Macy, John on simplicity
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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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"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin."

Byron, Lord on happiness
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"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

Kafka, Franz on youth
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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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"The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise, they are free from perplexities; and bold, they are free from fear."

Confucius on superiority
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"Leaders are visible at times of crisis, invisible at times of success."

Mohana Janam on
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"Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal."

Einstein, Albert on technology
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"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

Lao-Tzu on self-control
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something."

Browning, Robert on self-control
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"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"A good speaker makes a good liar."

Proverb, German on speakers and speaking
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on success
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"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

Land, Edwin H. on creativity
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"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

Hubbard, Elbert on understanding
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
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"You are only what you are when no one is looking."

Edwards, Robert C. on appearance
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

Confucius on growth
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"Instinct is untaught ability."

Bain, Alexander on instinct
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"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

Woolf, Virginia on war
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"Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them."

Holtz, Lou on problems
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"The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on genius
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on moderation
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on music
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