"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on conflict
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"Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions."

Colton, Charles Caleb on conflict
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are."

Robinson, James H. on thoughts and thinking   

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"You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires."

Wieder, Marcia on purpose
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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

Wilde, Oscar on principles
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"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires."

Franklin, Benjamin on ambition   

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

Hecht, Ben on trying
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"Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing."

Unknown, Source on diplomacy
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"Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts."

Buttrick, George on prayer
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"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week."

Shaw, George Bernard on thoughts and thinking   

"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."

Huxley, Aldous on thoughts and thinking
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"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting."

Frost, Robert on thoughts and thinking   

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

Billings, Josh on time
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Berlioz, Hector Louis on time
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"I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love."

Lennon, John on money
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"Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions."

Bartolme, Fernanda on bosses and employees
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"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"All human activity is prompted by desire."

Russell, Bertrand on desire   

"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness   

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Russell, Bertrand on time
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"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

Schuller, Robert H. on adversity
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

Andrews, Julie on perseverance
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"Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."

Billings, Josh on perseverance
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"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."

Brown, Les on perseverance
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Coolidge, Calvin on perseverance
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."

Aragon, Louis on love
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"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."

Auvil, Myrtle on love
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"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones."

Bandler, Richard on love
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"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Lombardi, Vince on habit
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"Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love."

Lombardi, Vince on humility
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"If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind."

Lombardi, Vince on winners and winning