"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

Burroughs, John on blame
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"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

Burroughs, John on sacrifice   

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

Burroughs, John on opportunity   

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

Burroughs, John on happiness
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"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."

Burroughs, John on fun   

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

Burnett, Carol on change
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"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."

Bunyan, John on contentment   

"Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you."

Bunyan, John on trials   

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

Byron, Lord on inheritance
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"History is the devil's scripture."

Byron, Lord on history and historians
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"I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."

Byrd, Richard E. on possibilities   

"You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities."

Bush, Barbara on luck   

"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."

Bush, Barbara on appreciation
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"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."

Bush, Barbara on success
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"A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours."

Buscaglia, Leo on uniqueness
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"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on change
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"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

Buscaglia, Leo on motivation
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"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

Buscaglia, Leo on honesty
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"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on gifts
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"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

Burke, Edmund on superstition   

"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."

Burke, Edmund on planning   

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"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial."

Burke, Edmund on opposition
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"In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute."

Burke, Edmund on malice   

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

Burke, Edmund on fear
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"There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken."

Byron, Lord on women
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"Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy."

Byron, Lord on sleep
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"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

Byron, Lord on repentance
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"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."

Byron, Lord on nature
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"I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves."

Byron, Lord on women
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"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."

Byron, Lord on oceans   

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

Adler, Alfred on caution
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"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

Adams, Abigail on learning
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"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."

Maslow, Abraham H. on potential   

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on commitment
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"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on common sense   

"No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on competition
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