"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

Buscaglia, Leo on honesty
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"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

Wilde, Oscar on misers and misery
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"If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything."

Brown, Les on purpose
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"In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important."

Brown, Les on growth
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"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."

Confucius on knowledge
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"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Hillary, Sir Edmund on obstacles
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on effort
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"The hottest love has the coldest end."

Socrates on love
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"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

Berra, Yogi on goals
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"Focus on the key things you can do each day that will help you achieve your end goal. Always prioritize according to the big picture."

Clark, Jane-Michele on goal
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"And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]"

Wilde, Oscar on famous last words
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"Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."

Wilde, Oscar on interviews
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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on value
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"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse."

Seneca on gratitude
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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

Stoppard, Tom on beginning
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"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."

Reeve, Christopher on attitude
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on friends and friendship
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature."

Voltaire on faults
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"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]"

Bible on enemies
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"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on trust
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on responsibility
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"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."

Chilo on friends and friendship
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

Proverb, Chinese on decisions
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows."

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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

Nightingale, Earl on fear
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life."

Wordsworth, William on kindness
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"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on complaints and complaining
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"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

Dyer, Wayne on regret
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