"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on fate   

"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on endurance
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"Those who endure conquer."

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

Motto on leadership   

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

Crook, James on leadership
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on listening
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"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on success
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on marriage
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"He who marries for money earns it."

Proverb, Yiddish on marriage
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"We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give."

Petit-Senn, John on pleasure
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"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

Gaulle, Charles De on character
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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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"I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one."

Proverb, Chinese on dream
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"The tongue can paint what the eye can't see."

Proverb, Chinese on persuasion
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"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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"The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment."

Spander, Art on change
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race."

Naisbitt, John on technology
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"We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is."

Naisbitt, John on information   

"One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so."

Naisbitt, John on commitment
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Drucker, Peter F. on the future
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"Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."

Bierce, Ambrose on the future   

"I desire no future that will break the ties with the past."

Eliot, George on the future
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"Create your future from your future not your past."

Erhard, Werner on the future
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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

France, Anatole on the future   

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life."

Fromm, Erich on the future   

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Gibran, Kahlil on the future
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"The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems."

Joel, Billy on the future
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"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

Kundera, Milan on the future
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"Human improvement is from within outward."

Froude, James A. on character
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em."

Otway, Thomas on cries and crying   

"Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on."

Hobson, Tom on failure
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"We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are."

Barrie, Sir James M. on failure
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"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

Bartkowski, Steve on failure
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"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure."

Baxter, Anne on failure
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"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear."

Bhagavad Gita on failure
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"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on failure
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