"Take your work seriously, but never yourself."

Fonteyn, Dame Margot on seriousness
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"Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast."

Westcott, Edward Noyes on giving   

"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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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

Schweitzer, Albert on integrity   

"I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great."

Hovey, Richard on fate   

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."

Darrow, Clarence on truth   

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

Reagon, Bernice Johnson on challenges
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"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it."

Schuller, Robert H. on challenges
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."

Ellis, Havelock on leadership
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"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."

Syrus, Publilius on thrift   

"Be sincere, be brief; be seated."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on speakers and speaking
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"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

Carnegie, Dale on work
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"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."

Leslie, H. T. on life
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on business
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"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

Greene, Graham on trust
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"In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."

Greene, Graham on lies and lying
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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

Greene, Graham on misers and misery   

"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."

DeVos, Richard M. on dream
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"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

DeVos, Richard M. on belief
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"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."

Berra, Yogi on death
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"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."

Mull, Martin on running   

"My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth."

Auden, W. H. on politics
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

Roosevelt, Theodore on america
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

Coallier, Steven on life
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"Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel."

Dane, Frank on business
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"Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds."

Santmyer, Helen Hoover on memory   

"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Salak, John Charles on failure
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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Eliot, T. S. on pride
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"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

Eliot, T. S. on age and aging
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"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information."

Eliot, T. S. on information
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"You are the music while the music lasts."

Eliot, T. S. on music
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