"Begin to weave and God will give the thread."

Proverb, German on procrastination
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Coolidge, Calvin on growth
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"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."

May, Rollo on freedom
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"No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime."

Mccay, James T. on possibilities   

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

Loren, Sophia on faith   

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Keller, Helen on character
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"It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else."

Unknown, Source on character
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"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny."

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph on action   

"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."

Franklin, Benjamin on freedom
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"Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?"

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised   

"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back?"

Stone, W. Clement on environment   

"Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sakebut for the nations sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparednessfor armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economyfor we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of governmentfor freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant. "

Johnson, Lyndon B. on uncategorised   

"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."

Brown, Les on responsibility
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"The complex develops out of the simple."

Wilson, Colin on simplicity   

"Weave in faith and God will find the thread."

Proverb on faith
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"You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity."

Cuyler, Theodore L. on inheritance   

"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

Seattle, Chief on spirituality   

"The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself."

Whitman, Walt on sleep
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"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God."

Havhamess, Alan on nature   

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects."

Melville, Herman on action   

"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber."

Crane, Frank on responsibility
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on grief
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"Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy."

Carlyle, Thomas on persuasion
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"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action."

Smiles, Samuel on enthusiasm
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"The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence."

Machado, Luis Albert on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others."

Eliot, Charles W. on service   

"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on books - reading
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