"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

Carty, Margaret on work
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

Beecher, Henry Ward on perseverance
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"To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do."

Blow, Susan on work   

"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."

Mason, Jackie on marriage   

"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on flowers
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on evolution
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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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"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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"Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

Nixon, Richard M. on defeat
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"Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?"

Virgil on defeat   

"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan."

Ciano, Galeazzo on losers and losing
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"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."

Plato on teacher   

"Action conquers fear."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on fear
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"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on duty   

"First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided."

Jean, General Iberico Saint on oppression   

"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."

Eastwood, Clint on pessimism   

"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom."

Twain, Mark on pessimism   

"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on pessimism
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Carlyle, Thomas on age and aging   

"I used to be snow white, but I drifted."

West, Mae on virtue
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"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."

Wilson, Earl on problems
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"I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal."

Carlson, Curtis on goals
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"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."

Epictetus on knowledge
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"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Keller, Helen on pessimism
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"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

Keller, Helen on kings
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"Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Keller, Helen on happiness
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"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."

Therous, Phyllis on mistakes
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"Don't cross the bridge till you come to it."

Proverb on expectation
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

Colton, Charles Caleb on happiness
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"We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life."

Marcinko, Richard on practice   

"Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could."

Polanski, Roman on confidence
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

Carroll, Lewis on goals
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"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."

Whitman, Walt on fortune   

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

Whitman, Walt on enemies
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"Produce great men, the rest follows."

Whitman, Walt on example   

"When I give I give myself."

Whitman, Walt on giving
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"Forgiveness is the oil of relationships."

Mcdowell, Josh on forgiveness
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"The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist."

Huxley, Aldous on reform