"There is no success without hardship."

Sophocles on success
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."

Will, George F. on politics   

"This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put. "

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"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."

Gray, John on women
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"The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use."

Irving, Washington on communication
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office."

West, Mae on virtue
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"Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less."

Lee, Robert E. on duty   

"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on government
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"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on desire
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"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on courage
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa on action
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"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."

Borman, Frank on capitalism
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"Weak people cannot be sincere."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on sincerity
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"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on leadership
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"Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on home   

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Sandburg, Carl on action
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"The aims of life are the best defense against death."

Levi, Primo on purpose   

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."

Augustine, St. on charity   

"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

Carnegie, Andrew on honor
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"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

Macarthur, Douglas on freedom
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"In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on."

Pythagoras on leisure
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"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."

Glasgow, Ellen on change
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on patience   

"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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"People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice."

Raphael, Frederic on speech   

"No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors."

Carlyle, Thomas on victory   

"Every one is the architect of his own fortune."

Regnier, Mathurin on fate   

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"When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend."

Goldsmith, Oliver on borrowing
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"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not."

Nightingale, Earl on choice
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"Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long."

Djilas, Milovan on evolution
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"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on luck
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts."

Shakespeare, William on patience
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"If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win"

Reuther, Walter on failure
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"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

Fabricius, George on achievement
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"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."

Stone, W. Clement on truth
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on grief
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