"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Jefferson, Thomas on control
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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."

Carlyle, Thomas on focus
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"No one is as angry as the person who is wrong."

Proverb on anger
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"A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Lincoln, Abraham on happiness
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"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood but for those whom they would give their blood."

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"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."

Dyson, Freeman on engineering   

"What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes."

Virkkala, Timothy on belief   

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

Disraeli, Benjamin on agreement
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"Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself."

Korbut, Olga on difficulties   

"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on worry
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"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."

Jefferson, Thomas on morality
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly."

Huxley, Thomas H. on education
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"The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public."

Ball, Patricia Ann on speech   

"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough."

DeVos, Richard M. on praise
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"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."

Bernard, St. on humility
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"If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist."

Crisp, Quentin on writers and writing
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"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively."

Stone, W. Clement on control   

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

Baldwin, James on money
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"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

Schwarzkopf, Norman on action
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"The bad thing about falling to pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so you have no reason no to be honest."

Duncan, David James on   

"Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person."

Griffin, J. D. on stability