"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."

Andrews, Julie on discipline
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"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs."

Andretti, Mario on circumstance
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"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

Andretti, Mario on desire
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"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

Anderson, Marian on fear
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"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself."

Ali, Muhammad on confidence
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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on risk
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"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."

Alda, Alan on potential
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

Alcott, Louisa May on adversity
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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Alcott, Louisa May on vision
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty."

Alcott, Louisa May on modesty
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"Man know much more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on understanding
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"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."

Buffett, Warren on business   

"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute."

Buffett, Warren on belief
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"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

Buffett, Warren on success
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"I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard."

Brown, Helen Gurley on success
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"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."

Buffett, Warren on simplicity
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"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

Buffett, Warren on risk
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"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

Buddha on meditation
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"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

Buddha on self-esteem
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"Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised."

Buffett, Warren on opportunity
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"Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts."

Buddha on vigilance
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"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."

Buddha on deeds and good deeds
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"You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself."

Buddha on spirituality
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"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Buddha on war
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"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

Buddha on purpose
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"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

Buddha on resentment
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise."

Buddha on experience
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"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."

Buck, Pearl S. on service
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"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."

Buber, Martin on world
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Bryan, William Jennings on destiny
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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"

Browning, Robert on writers and writing
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"Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"

Browning, Robert on effort   

"Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."

Byron, Lord on letters
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"Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these."

Burroughs, John on temperament