"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."

Buddha on belief
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."

Churchill, Winston on knowledge
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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on passion
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"Victory and defeat are each of the same price."

Jefferson, Thomas on victory
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"The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few."

Mcmurtry, Larry on sorrow
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"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

Gaulle, Charles De on character
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence."

Paul, Jean on change
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."

Richards, Mary Caroline on action
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"Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on action
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"Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues."

Confucius on humility
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"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on spirituality
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

Shaw, George Bernard on hell
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

Sarnoff, David on anger
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"Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job."

Sarnoff, David on joy
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"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."

Sarnoff, David on success   

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

Crook, James on leadership
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"The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on power
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."

Canetti, Elias on autobiography
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"You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision."

Gerber, Michael E. on vision
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"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication"

Gerber, Michael E. on business
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"Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be."

Unknown, Source on vision   

"The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."

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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

Brown, Les on love
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"I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom."

Brown, Les on life
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"A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking."

Chazal, Malcolm De on women
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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

Chazal, Malcolm De on love
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"There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him."

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"No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility."

Johnson, Gerald W. on responsibility