"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

Aristotle on morality
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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

Aristotle on education
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

Milton, John on mind
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"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

Artaud, Antonin on insanity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talkativeness
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"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."

Herman Hesse on
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"Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker."

Runes, Dagobert D. on judgment and judges
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"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

Jonson, Ben on happiness
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"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on memory
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"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

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"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Shaw, George Bernard on debt
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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

Brown, Les on possibilities
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"Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery."

Unknown, Source on worry   

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."

Boom, Corrie Ten on worry
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"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on fear
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"Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!"

Unknown, Source on fear
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"Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity."

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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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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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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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