"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on purpose
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"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

Plutarch on fate
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"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself."

Seneca on service   

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"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

Locke, John on desire
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"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."

Carlyle, Thomas on potential
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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."

Cioran, E. M. on vitality
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured."

Adenauer, Konrad on negotiation
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"While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues."

Heine, Heinrich on self-esteem   

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

Frank, Anne on happiness
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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."

Weil, Simone on attachment
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"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."

Adams, George M. on support
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"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Pickford, Mary on obstacles
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"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on goals
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"The worst old age is that of the mind."

Hazlitt, William on age and aging
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"The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils."

Pliny The Elder on life   

"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on desire
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"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

Buddha on hatred
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"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

Kaiser, Henry J. on opportunity
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"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on promotion   

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on grief
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero, Marcus T. on gratitude
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"God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use."

Eagle, Iron on talent
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"Simplicity is the seal of truth."

Proverb on simplicity
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"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish"

La Fontaine, Jean De on soul
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"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."

Auden, W. H. on patience
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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them."

Vanderbilt, Amy on manners   

"It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world"

Siegel, Bernie S. on experience
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"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."

Gaertner, Johannes A. on gratitude
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on risk
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on argument
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"Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will."

Richards, Mary Caroline on enemies   

"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people."

Mill, John Stuart on law and lawyers   

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it."

Friedsam, Michael on goals
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"Let nothing come between you and the light."

Thoreau, Henry David on control   

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on truth