"Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited."

Freeman, Robert on character
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"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on crisis
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"There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit. "

Rockefeller, Nelson on uncategorised   

"Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out."

Chekhov, Anton on health
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"Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity."

Kennedy, John F. on opportunity
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"Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."

Maltz, Maxwell on growth
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"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

Jackson, Andrew on mind   

"Never take counsel of your fears."

Jackson, Stonewall on fear
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"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

Jackson, Andrew on government   

"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."

Jackson, Andrew on government   

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."

Jackson, Andrew on strategies   

"One man with courage makes a majority."

Jackson, Andrew on courage
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"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger."

Jackson, Andrew on courage
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"Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends."

Cruise, Tom on ending
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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."

Trotsky, Leon on ends and means
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"Happiness is a journey not a destination."

Sweetland, Ben on happiness
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"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end"

Hemingway, Ernest on purpose
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"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on arrogance
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

James, William on vacation   

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on imagination
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"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."

Chapin Jr., Roy D. on opportunity
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"The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity
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"Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?"

Unknown, Source on opportunity
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"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter."

Forbes, B. C. on opportunity
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"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together."

Nightingale, Earl on opportunity   

"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years. "

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"The first wealth is health."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wealth
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"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

Young Jr., Whitney on opportunity
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation."

Cobb, Irvin S. on fashion   

"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

Frost, Robert on parents and parenting
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"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."

Borges, Jorge Luis on writers and writing   

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

Borges, Jorge Luis on night
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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

Borges, Jorge Luis on love
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"My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere."

Barrymore, John on mother-in-laws   

"In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Unknown, Source on change
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"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."

Moore, Marianne on trust   

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

Ford, Henry on work
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