"My definition of success is control."

Branagh, Kenneth on success   

"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."

Branagh, Kenneth on friends and friendship
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"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it."

Bradbury, Ray on practice   

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Borge, Victor on laughter
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"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

Bergman, Ingmar on cinema   

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."

Berne, Eric on civilization   

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

Bird, Larry on winners and winning
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"Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds."

Bird, Larry on effort   

"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."

Black, Hugo on happiness   

"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all."

Baruch, Bernard M. on knowledge
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"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."

Baruch, Bernard M. on facts   

"You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself."

Barrymore, Ethel on laughter
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"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in."

Barrymore, Ethel on curiosity
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"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

Ball, Lucille on luck
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"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

Bacon, Francis on choice
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"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."

Bacon, Francis on present
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?"

Campolo, Tony on joy   

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

Canfield, Jack on action
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"When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you."

Canfield, Jack on giving   

"Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate."

Canfield, Jack on fear
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"The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them."

Caine, Michael on speech
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"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."

Caesar, Sid on life
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"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

Byron, Lord on death
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"I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust."

Byron, Lord on death   

"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons."

Byron, Lord on women   

"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"

Byron, Lord on cosmos   

"The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself."

Byron, Lord on change   

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

Byron, Lord on sorrow
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on habit
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"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation."

Auden, W. H. on sin   

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

Auden, W. H. on humor
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"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."

Arliss, George on humility
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"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Aristotle on writers and writing
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on books - reading
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Angelou, Maya on impression
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