"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]"

Tozer, A. W. on ambition
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"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on adversity
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"There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."

Ransom, Ralph on adversity
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"People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within"

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler on adversity
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"He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together."

Zwanzig, Carl on adversity   

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

Brice, Fanny on affectation
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric on affectation
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"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

Scott, Dr. Loretta on aid and assistance
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"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot."

Townsend, Robert on action   

"None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen."

Unknown, Source on action
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"I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so."

Unknown, Source on action   

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

Devito, Danny on adversity
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"What is to give light must endure the burning."

Frankl, Viktor E. on adversity
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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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"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."

Curcio, Joan L. on action
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"You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought."

Holmes, Marjorie on action
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Keller, Helen on action
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"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

Lincoln, Abraham on action   

"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on admiration
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors
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"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

Gautier, Theophile on admiration
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

Epictetus on action
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"When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have."

Proverb, French on action
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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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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ability
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"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

Faulkner, William on ability
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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