"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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"Heredity is nothing, but stored environment."

Burbank, Luther on ancestry
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"Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?"

Hitopadesa on ancestry
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"People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within"

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler on adversity
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"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

Michener, James A. on knowledge   

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Wharton, Edith on giving
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"The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have."

Unknown, Source on ancestry   

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on ancestry
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"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."

Oates, Joyce Carol on ancestry
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"They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy."

Lowell, James Russell on ancestry   

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

Lincoln, Abraham on ancestry
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

Marden, Orison Swett on ability
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"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."

Unknown, Source on ability
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"God does not ask about our ability, but our availability."

Unknown, Source on ability
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you."

Book, William Frederick on adaptability
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"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."

Montgomery, Lucy Maud on adaptability
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Ford, Henry on adversity
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on hope
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on hope
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"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will."

Reagan, Ronald on action
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"Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God."

Angelou, Maya on children
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

Kingsolver, Barbara on hope
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current."

Unknown, Source on adaptability
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

Cocteau, Jean on adversity
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"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."

Collins, Kitty O'neill on adversity
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"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on aid and assistance
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"We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity."

Reagan, Ronald on aid and assistance   

"These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on aid and assistance   

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

Bristol, Claude M. on affirmation
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"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on affirmation
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"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Aimee, Anouk on age and aging
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