"Persevere in virtue and diligence."

Livy, Titus on perseverance   

"The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."

Riley, James Whitcomb on perseverance
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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first."

Bailey, Pearl on change
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

Kennedy, John F. on destiny
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"A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air."

Winchell, Walter on pessimism
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"Pessimism never won any battle."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on pessimism
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

King Jr. Martin Luther on justice
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"The time is always right to do what is right."

King Jr. Martin Luther on virtue
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"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."

Stoppard, Tom on voting   

"Suffrage is the pivotal right."

Anthony, Susan B. on voting   

"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."

Addison, Joseph on criticism
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"Everything changes but change."

Zangwill, Israel on change
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

Franklin, Benjamin on planning
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"He that won't be counseled can't be helped."

Franklin, Benjamin on learning
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"There's small choice in rotten apples."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"Sloth is the key to poverty."

Proverb on laziness
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"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on poverty and the poor
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on poverty and the poor
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"If the people have no bread, let them eat cake."

Antoinette, Marie on service   

"Constant repetition carries conviction."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise."

Unknown, Source on service
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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

Mandela, Nelson on art
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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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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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on enemies
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt."

Cowper, William on glory
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"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."

Gandhi, Indira on forgiveness
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"The only reward of virtue is virtue."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

Hubbard, Elbert on love
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