"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on thoughts and thinking
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"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."

Colby, Frank Moore on tolerance   

"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."

Rowland, Helen on marriage
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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."

Hoffer, Eric on faith
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"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on doubt
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"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."

Sterling, John on pain
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"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on gratitude
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"We work to become, not to acquire."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others."

Bower, Sharon Anthony on assertiveness
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"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

Jefferson, Thomas on greed
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"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

Morgan, John Pierpont on possibilities
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"For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt."

Kearney on change
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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Washington, George on freedom
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"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."

Horace on function
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

Einstein, Albert on life
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"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."

Halifax, Edward F. on thoughts and thinking
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"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on appreciation
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"Caution is the parent of safety."

Proverb on caution
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"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."

Dhammapada on action
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."

Faulkner, William on science   

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."

Neal, John on adversity
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"When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well."

Proverb, Japanese on planning
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

Herschel, Sir John on respectability
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit."

Penn, William on popularity   

"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints."

Colton, Charles Caleb on tolerance
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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

Congreve, William on music
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"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them."

Bioleau on fools and foolishness
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"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

Riley, Pat on action
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"Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on humankind
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"When money speaks the truth is silent."

Proverb, Russian on money
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"The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much."

Glien, Germain G. on listening
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken."

Valois, Margaret on courage   

"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

Marx, Karl on opportunity
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"A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork."

Frost, Robert on work   

"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."

France, Anatole on adversity
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