"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Edison, Thomas A. on opportunity
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves."

Edison, Thomas A. on possibilities
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"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on power
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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

Stark, Freya on happiness
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"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."

Hoffer, Eric on ends and means   

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric on affectation
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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on favors
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"The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."

Astor, Lady Nancy on bores and boredom
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"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on talent
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."

Trotman, Dawson on procrastination
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"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on enthusiasm
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"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Pickford, Mary on obstacles
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"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

Pickford, Mary on the future
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"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."

Peale, Norman Vincent on obstacles   

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

Peale, Norman Vincent on enthusiasm   

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Ford, Henry on simplicity
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"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."

Dyer, Wayne on purpose
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"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."

Halifax, Edward F. on thoughts and thinking
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"Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise."

Wilder, Thornton on promises
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"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward."

Sampson, Patricia on self-reliance
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"An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued."

Cobb, Irvin S. on epitaphs   

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on appreciation
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"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."

Gabirol, Ibn on death
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

Gingrich, Newt on perseverance
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"Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty   

"Life itself is the proper binge."

Child, Julia on life   

"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation"

O'Reilly, Radar on life
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"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."

Garofalo, Janeane on pessimism
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two."

Brecht, Bertolt on leadership
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