"The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils."

Junius on decisions   

"A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all."

Langmuir., Eric on decisions   

"In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No --who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies."

Maclaren, Alexander on decisions
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"Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong."

Mansfield, Lord on decisions
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"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire."

Pickens, T. Boone on decisions   

"Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared."

Korda, Michael on luck
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"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on luck
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"You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities."

Bush, Barbara on luck   

"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."

Cherbuliez, Victor on luck
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"Luck relies on chance, labor on character."

Cobden, Richard on luck   

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"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

Cocteau, Jean on luck
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"All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it."

Collier, Robert on luck
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"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."

Davies, Robertson on luck   

"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."

Dewey, John on luck
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"Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned."

Dickinson, Emily on luck
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"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."

Doisneau, Robert on luck
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"There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on luck
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"Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on luck
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"The harder I work the luckier I get."

Goldwyn, Samuel on luck
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"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."

Goldwyn, Samuel on luck   

"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."

Gracian, Baltasar on luck   

"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."

Gracian, Baltasar on luck   

"Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck."

Harris, Joel Chandler on luck   

"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."

Hawken, Paul on luck
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"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."

Harte, Bret on luck   

"Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. He's lucky, an envious person remarks. He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor. In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called luck usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by pull, but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day."

Hildebrand, Kenneth on luck   

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

Baldwin, James on change
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"We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed."

Baldwin, James on truth   

"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

Aristotle on truth
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"How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?"

Bright, Grant M. on death
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha on control
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"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world."

Montapert, Alfred A. on control   

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."

Barrie, Sir James M. on anger
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

Barrie, Sir James M. on belief
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"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."

Caesar, Julius on belief
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."

Baldwin, James on belief
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