"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."

Chesterfield, Lord on ancestry
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"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

Lombardi, Vince on determination
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Acton, Lord on argument
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"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."

Zedong, Mao on art   

"A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements."

Burns, H.S.M. on management
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"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."

Macleish, Archibald on absurdity
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"The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish."

Schwab, Charles M. on joy   

"Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid."

Wilde, Oscar on careers   

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual."

Robbins, Anthony on health
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

Henderson, Nelson on service
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"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

Lombardi, Vince on work
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"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

Lombardi, Vince on desire
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"From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones."

Steinbeck, John on aid and assistance
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"The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D."

Algren, Nelson on criticism   

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

Steinbeck, John on writers and writing
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"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."

Steinbeck, John on criticism   

"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."

Burns, Robert on criticism   

"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on criticism   

"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."

Hoffman, Dustin on criticism   

"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

Bacon, Francis on family
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"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots."

Yeats, William Butler on family
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"Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse."

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) on marriage   

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

Andretti, Mario on desire
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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."

Andretti, Mario on control
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"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

McLaughlin, Mignon on planning   

"Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them."

Mckain, Robert J. on planning   

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on planning
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"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."

Disraeli, Benjamin on enthusiasm
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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Disraeli, Benjamin on nations
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"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Disraeli, Benjamin on facts
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"Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

Disraeli, Benjamin on frankness
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on genius
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