"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."

Claudius on wish and wishing
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"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."

La Fontaine, Jean De on achievement
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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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"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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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

Reading, Lady Stella on achievement
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"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Addison, Joseph on injury
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"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hope
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"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Carver, George Washington on hope
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"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on hope
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

Eliot, George on achievement
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on achievement
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"Teamwork: Never Doubt that a small group of thoughtful & committed people can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has over time."

Flanagan, Jerry on work
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on life
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"Nature is the art of God."

Dante Alighieri on nature
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"I never vote for anyone. I always vote against."

Fields, W. C. on elections   

"HOPE is a vision of what can be if you just believe!"

Flanagan, Jerry on hope
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"A true fan will always wear team colors even when they loose. The world is full of ups and downs. You just have to keep getting back up!"

Flanagan, Jerry on sports   

"Success; to be able to do your very best in everything you do."

Flanagan, Jerry on success   

"Always remember that, when times are rough (or you find out who your true friends are), "Life is what we make it"."

Flanagan, Jerry on   

"You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do."

Fonda, Jane on choice
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on moderation
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"Success is a journey, not a destination."

Sweetland, Ben on success
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"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."

Marx, Karl on time
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"There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion."

Nabokov, Vladimir on aphorisms and epigrams   

"I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."

Twain, Mark on democracy
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Study the past if you would divine the future."

Confucius on past
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"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

Confucius on anger
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."

Confucius on ignorance
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"A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart."

Confucius on fools and foolishness
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"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."

Confucius on faults
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