"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"Nothing will work unless you do."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well."

Wooden, John on success
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"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."

Wooden, John on success
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

Wooden, John on character
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."

Angelou, Maya on cynicism
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Angelou, Maya on impression
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"Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God."

Angelou, Maya on children
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on smile
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"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."

Homer on friends and friendship
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"Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]"

Bible on courage
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"He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory."

Jyrus on discipline   

"There is a history in all men's lives."

Shakespeare, William on history and historians
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"This is the fourth?"

Jefferson, Thomas on famous last words
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on cheerfulness
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"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."

Greene, Graham on media   

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

Shaw, George Bernard on opportunity
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on moderation
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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."

Franklin, Benjamin on rest
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"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on vision   

"Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash."

Earhart, Amelia on airplane and aviation
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"Each is responsible for his own actions."

Hunt, H. L. on responsibility
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"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."

Winchell, Walter on criticism
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"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

Joyce, James on mistakes
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"I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."

James, Henry on patriotism
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"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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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on difficulties
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"God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain."

Lewis, C. S. on pleasure
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"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on cooperation
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"I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed."

Angelou, Maya on god
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"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

Ford, Henry on god
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"The best thinking has been done in solitude."

Edison, Thomas A. on solitude
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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

Voltaire on friends and friendship
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"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on results
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"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience."

Euripides on science
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