"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

Lincoln, Abraham on preparation
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"When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable."

Couples, Fred on preparation
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"I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights."

Ali, Muhammad on preparation
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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

Carnegie, Dale on preparation
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"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

Coallier, Steven on life
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"My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."

Wilde, Oscar on individuality
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

Gandhi, Mahatma on idleness
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"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire on freedom
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"What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon."

Voltaire on fame   

"Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on generations
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"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

Homer on adversity
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"Be good and you will be lonely."

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"We always weaken everything we exaggerate."

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar on exaggeration   

"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not."

Nightingale, Earl on choice
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"To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it."

Keyes Jr., Ken on circumstance
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"I am bigger than anything that can happen to me."

Lummis, Charles F. on circumstance   

"Arrange Whatever pieces come your way."

Woolf, Virginia on opportunity   

"Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored."

Sanders, George on bores and boredom
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"The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."

Astor, Lady Nancy on bores and boredom
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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Chopin, Frederic on apathy
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"Drink to me."

Picasso, Pablo on famous last words
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"Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you."

Brown, Les on control
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"Nothing external to you has any power over you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on control
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"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys."

Horton, Doug on control
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"The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on control   

"Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them."

Simms, Nancy on control
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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."

Tracy, Brian on control
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"A problem is your chance to do your best."

Ellington, Duke on problems
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"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

Hemingway, Ernest on simplicity   

"Charm is more than beauty."

Proverb, Yiddish on charm
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"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."

Wilde, Oscar on charm
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Frank, Al on denial
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"Charm is a product of the unexpected."

Marti, Jose on charm
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"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."

Cicero, Marcus T. on brevity   

"Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Pope, Alexander on merit
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"Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on charm