"Character is simply habit long continued."

Plutarch on character
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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."

Churchill, Winston on victory
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"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle..."

Hill, Napoleon on growth
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

Seneca on adversity
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"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

Seneca on adversity
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"A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine."

Baba, Meher on mind
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"Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden."

Kraus, Karl on language
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"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."

Bryan, William Jennings on civil rights   

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

Lowell, James Russell on deeds and good deeds
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"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?"

Carson, Johnny on opportunity
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"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."

Alinsky, Saul on individuality   

"That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."

Stone, W. Clement on inertia   

"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."

Stone, W. Clement on suggestion   

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

Stone, W. Clement on action
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"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."

Stone, W. Clement on choice
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"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation."

Allen, James on choice
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"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

Edwards, Tryon on choice
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"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on choice   

"It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice."

Epictetus on choice
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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

Garcia, Jerry on choice
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative."

Kohe, J. Martin on choice   

"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."

Kohe, J. Martin on choice
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"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."

Epictetus on freedom
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Bergman, Ingrid on happiness   

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Acton, Lord on power
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"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Alinsky, Saul on power
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"Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength."

Apocrypha on power
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest."

Banks, Harry F. on power
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"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on obstacles
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"The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence."

Musonnius on silence
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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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"Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought."

Basile on memory   

"The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."

Billings, Josh on self-control
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"To the timid soul, nothing is possible."

Bach, John on impossibility
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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

Disney, Walt on impossibility
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on hope
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