"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."

Miller, Henry on trying   

"What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written."

Johnson, Samuel on memory
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"Press no further with hate."

Virgil on hatred   

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

Adams, John Quincy on courage
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"A good swordsman is not given to quarrel."

Proverb, French on conflict   

"Mastery passes often for egotism."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on egotism
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."

Cicero, Marcus T. on death
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"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

Ziglar, Zig on potential
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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."

Roosevelt, Theodore on dedication
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"All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on prudence   

"Success covers a multitude of blunders."

Shaw, George Bernard on success
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"Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else."

Rothschild, William E. on humor
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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

Allen, James on circumstance
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"Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice."

Horton, Doug on choice
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"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."

Elledge, Scott on kindness   

"Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."

Proverb, Chinese on patience
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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will."

Pythagoras on gossip
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on leadership
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"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy on love
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

Rohn, Jim on value
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"A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500."

Brewster, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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"There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others."

Bruyere, Jean De La on getting ahead   

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Plato on wisdom
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"What people need and what they want may be very different."

Hubbard, Elbert on conflict
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

Maugham, W. Somerset on obstinacy
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"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."

Wilde, Oscar on dictators and dictatorship
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"Art is a form of catharsis."

Parker, Dorothy on art   

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."

Parker, Dorothy on leadership
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"They also serve who only stand and wait."

Milton, John on patience
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"One brave deed makes no hero."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on heroes and heroism
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"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. "

Plato on uncategorised
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on action   

"The most positive men are the most credulous."

Swift, Jonathan on credulity   

"If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong."

Proverb, South African on punishment   

"Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best."

Palmer, Jim on losers and losing
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"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

Hammarskjold, Dag on integrity
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