"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory   

"Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them."

King, Basil on victory   

"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

Aristotle on dignity
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."

Aristotle on equality   

"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."

Aristotle on empire
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"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."

Aristotle on goals
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on events   

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on institutions   

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

Stone, W. Clement on attitude
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"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

Carter, Jimmy on multiculturalism
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"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Melville, Herman on originality
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."

Wilde, Oscar on faith
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"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

Berger, John on language   

"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"I am more important than my problems."

Ferrer, Jose on courage
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"Take no thought for tomorrow; for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. [Matthew 6:34]"

Bible on the future   

"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on achievement
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."

Bennett, Arnold on effort
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Einstein, Albert on the future
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Drucker, Peter F. on the future
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"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

Boom, Corrie Ten on the future
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs."

Lasorda, Tommy on worry   

"The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

Nabokov, Vladimir on genius
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"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results."

Allen, James on determination
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"Goals that are not written down are just wishes."

Unknown, Source on goals   

"If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."

Montesquieu, Charles De on happiness