"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on happiness
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"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

Waitley, Denis on mistakes
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"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately."

Covey, Stephen R. on mistakes
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"No man fails who does his best..."

Marden, Orison Swett on mistakes
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"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time."

Watson, Thomas J. on courtesy
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"Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities."

Marden, Orison Swett on possibilities   

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hope
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"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."

Colton, Charles Caleb on doubt   

"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."

Colton, Charles Caleb on knowledge   

"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."

Colton, Charles Caleb on anger
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"Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on opportunity   

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength"

Colton, Charles Caleb on patience
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"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men."

Colton, Charles Caleb on riches   

"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."

Colton, Charles Caleb on school   

"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."

Colton, Charles Caleb on knowledge   

"Home is where the heart is."

Pliny The Elder on home
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"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Bruyere, Jean De La on loneliness
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"Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on loneliness
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"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."

Francis, Brendan on loneliness
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"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on adversity
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

Ellington, Duke on adversity
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on adversity
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"What is to give light must endure the burning."

Frankl, Viktor E. on adversity
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"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."

Hale, Edward Everett on adversity
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"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on adversity
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."

Yeats, William Butler on planning
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"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."

Heatter, Gabriel on achievement
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"Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong."

Mansfield, Lord on decisions
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"A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all."

Langmuir., Eric on decisions   

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

Thoreau, Henry David on criticism
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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

Diderot, Denis on truth
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"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yu-tang on mind
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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