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"If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity."

Proverb, Italian on pity
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

Rather, Dan on trials
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"Personal power is the ability to take action."

Robbins, Anthony on power    Share

"If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed."

Robbins, Anthony on failure
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"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on diets and dieting    Share

"The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health."

Schwartz, Bob on diets and dieting    Share

"To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality."

Wolf, Naomi on diets and dieting
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"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."

Bismarck, Otto Von on history and historians
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"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

Unknown on facts
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"Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?"

Allenbaugh, Eric on choice
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"Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst."

Weckler, Walter on revenge
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

Owens, Jesse on determination
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"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on doubt
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on perseverance
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

Andrews, Julie on perseverance
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!"

Anderson, Greg on diets and dieting
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"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion."

Gale, Zona on poetry and poets    Share

"A true man hates no one."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on men
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"Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving."

Mayfield, Harold on progress
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"Nimble thought can jump both sea and land."

Shakespeare, William on visualization    Share

"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."

Noble, Alex on success
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"The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired."

La Farge, John on past    Share

"All limits are self imposed."

Icarus on impossibility
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"A man's limitations are not the things he wants to do and can t; they are the things he ought to do but doesn't. The difficult we will do eventually, the impossible will just take a little more time."

Unknown, Source on impossibility    Share

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

Alexander The Great on impossibility
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"To the timid soul, nothing is possible."

Bach, John on impossibility
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"The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility."

Brande, Dorothea on impossibility    Share

"It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths."

Carlyle, Thomas on impossibility    Share

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

Goddard, Robert H. on impossibility
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"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."

Marden, Orison Swett on impossibility
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"If you can't, you must. If you must, you can."

Robbins, Anthony on impossibility
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"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."

Lao-Tzu on action
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"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on forgiveness
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"I donot know how to forgive myself for what I have done."

Modi, Varsha on forgiveness
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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

Buscaglia, Leo on honesty
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