"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated."

Collier, Robert on desire   

"We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility."

Carlyle, Thomas on society   

"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."

Sheen, Fulton John on pride   

"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

Russell, Bertrand on life
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"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

Powell, Colin on effort
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"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."

Jamieson, Mrs. on competition   

"Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world."

Parker, Theodore on duty   

"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect."

Parker, Theodore on self-respect
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"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."

Corneille, Pierre on duty   

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"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

Augustine, St. on duty
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"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on duty   

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"We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship."

Hassan, Ihab on quotations
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"Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition."

Clough, Arthur Hugh on competition   

"Mighty in deeds and not in words."

Motto on deeds and good deeds   

"Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying."

Motto on leadership   

"Death rather than disgrace."

Motto on honor   

"Let my honor be without stain."

Motto on honor   

"Those who endure conquer."

Motto on endurance
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"Rank imposes obligation."

Motto on duty
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"Eagles do not beget Doves."

Motto on animals   

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

Crane, Frank on trust
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"I will attained victory by God and my sword."

Motto on victory   

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"Let each day be your masterpiece."

Unknown, Source on excellence   

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."

Watson, Thomas J. on excellence
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"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."

Watson, Thomas J. on trust
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

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

Twain, Mark on equality
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"Common sense is not so common."

Voltaire on common sense
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"I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces."

Jennings, Peter on privacy   

"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns."

Conrad, Joseph on dream   

"Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream."

Salley, John on dream
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"When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster."

Asimov, Isaac on dream
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"The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought."

Bacon, Francis on deception   

"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Twain, Mark on joy
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