"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day..."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment   

"It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well."

Marden, Orison Swett on joy
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"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

Shaw, George Bernard on happiness   

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."

Yeats, William Butler on happiness
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"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live"

Thompson, Dorothy on fear
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"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"

Thompson, Dorothy on integrity   

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on integrity
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"I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people."

Miller, Henry on integrity   

"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."

Waitley, Denis on integrity
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"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on conversation   

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

Santayana, George on friends and friendship
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"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

Santayana, George on intolerance
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"Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance."

Beecher, Henry Ward on intolerance   

"Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others."

Morgenthau, Hans J. on power   

"Propaganda replaces moral philosophy."

Morgenthau, Hans J. on propaganda   

"The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on propaganda
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"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."

Lilly, John C. on belief   

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

Jefferson, Thomas on power
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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Jefferson, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."

Laing, R. D. on love
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"Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."

Laing, R. D. on normality   

"We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt."

Laing, R. D. on alienation   

"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

Burton, Sir Richard on affliction
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

Burton, Sir Richard on travel
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"I have been a stranger in a strange land."

Bible on travel   

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

Riley, Pat on excellence
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"There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it."

Riley, Pat on performance   

"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength."

Riley, Pat on work   

"The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned."

Book, William Frederick on work
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"You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself."

Ziglar, Zig on conflict
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on life
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"The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain."

Quinn, Jane Bryant on time   

"Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide."

Halifax, Edward F. on time
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"Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought."

Addison, Joseph on time
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"Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind."

Prior, Matthew on marriage   

"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."

Paine, Thomas on war   

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"Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation."

Lawrence, Frieda on war