"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

Wooden, John on excellence
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"Duty cannot exist without faith."

Disraeli, Benjamin on duty
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"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can."

Menander of Athens on life
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"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

Stimson, Henry Lewis on trust
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"I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."

Emmons, Nathaniel on punctuality   

"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."

Emmons, Nathaniel on habit
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

Maugham, W. Somerset on excess   

"Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always."

Ashton, Marvin J. on cooperation   

"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."

Thomas, Lowell on excellence   

"A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go."

Duffecy, James on death
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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Duffecy, James on music
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment."

Banks, Harry F. on success
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"Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow."

Brown, Les on determination
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"The beginning is the half of every action."

Proverb, Greek on beginning
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"The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?"

Gatty, Margaret on conflict
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"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

Angelis, Barbara De on difficulties
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."

Ball, Ivern on past
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"There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey."

Forster, William Edward on obedience
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"Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring."

Harris, Sidney J. on teacher
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on hope
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"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell on perseverance
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"Persevere in virtue and diligence."

Livy, Titus on perseverance   

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on risk
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Anderson, Walter on risk
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"Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small."

Proverb, Jewish on modesty
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on virtue
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