"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."

Adams, Charles Francis on Extra Mile
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"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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"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

Addison, Joseph on Family
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another."

Aesop on Discontent
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on Kindness
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on Action
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"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

Allen, James on Self-improvement
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"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

Allen, James on Success
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"Every day you waste is one you can never make up."

Allen, George on Waste
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on Perseverance
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"Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?"

Allenbaugh, Eric on Choice
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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

Allen, James on Circumstance
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"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

Allen, James on Thoughts and Thinking
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"He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul."

Allen, James on Self-talk
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"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."

Smith, Adam on Analysis
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"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."

Hurd, Douglas on Aid and Assistance
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"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be."

Dryden, John on Anxiety
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"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

Roche, Arthur Somers on Anxiety
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"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."

Buscaglia, Leo on Apathy
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"The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves."

Casson, Herbert N. on Ambition
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"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

Levine, Stephen on Love
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"Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul."

Joyce, James on Love
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"If you wish to be loved; Love!"

Seneca on Love
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Love
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"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge."

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De on Love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Love
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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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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on Achievement
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"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

Homer on Adversity
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"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."

Mother Teresa on Abortion
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"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."

Ouida on Absence
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on Ability
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"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Abundance
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Achievement
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"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

Rank, Otto on Achievement
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"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Thatcher, Margaret on Achievement
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"You can't aim a duck to death."

Boardman, Gael on Action
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"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."

Hale, Edward Everett on Adversity
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"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."

Havner, Vance on Adversity
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