"Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life."

Robbins, Anthony on control   

"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on ambition
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"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on anxiety
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"I am a part of all that I have met."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on life
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"The greater person is one of courtesy."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on manners   

"Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on women
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"Either sex alone is half itself."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on women   

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on power
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"Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on prayer
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"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on sin
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"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on action   

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on action
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"The education of a man is never complete until he dies."

Lee, Robert E. on education
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"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

Lee, Robert E. on friends and friendship
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"I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people. "

Lee, Robert E. on uncategorised   

"It is fortunate that war is so terrible, lest we become to fond of it."

Lee, Robert E. on war   

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deceit
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"The first duty of love is to listen."

Tillich, Paul on listening
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"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on goals
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"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on intelligence and intellectuals
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"If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on labor   

"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on life   

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on success
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"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on books - reading
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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on truth   

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on weakness
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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on company
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"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on consequences   

"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on consequences   

"To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. "

Stevenson, Robert Louis on uncategorised
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"It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."

Thatcher, Margaret on enemies
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"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Thatcher, Margaret on achievement
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"People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top."

Thatcher, Margaret on opportunity   

"One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too."

Thatcher, Margaret on success   

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

Thatcher, Margaret on cheerfulness   

"I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near."

Thatcher, Margaret on work   

"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

Russell, Rosalind on adversity