"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on death   

"Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on decisions
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"True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on determination   

"I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on luck
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"Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best."

Olivier, Sir Lawrence on excellence
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"Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength."

Olivier, Sir Lawrence on strength
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"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."

Powell, Colin on success
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"Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare."

Elizabeth, Queen's Mother on war   

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them."

George, David Lloyd on eloquence   

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."

George, David Lloyd on procrastination
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"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

George, David Lloyd on commitment
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"Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men. "

George, David Lloyd on uncategorised   

"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true."

Rogers, Carl on facts   

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."

Rogers, Carl on life
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"You always pass failure on the way to success."

Rooney, Mickey on failure
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"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out"

Reagan, Ronald on goals   

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere."

Reagan, Ronald on management
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"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."

Ustinov, Peter on purpose
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"Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much."

Wayne, John on speakers and speaking   

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on determination
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"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on war   

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on desire
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

Franklin, Benjamin on diligence
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"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"Nothing preaches better than the act."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"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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"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade."

Franklin, Benjamin on genius
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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

Franklin, Benjamin on greatness
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"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense."

Franklin, Benjamin on language
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"The things which hurt, instruct."

Franklin, Benjamin on learning
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."

Franklin, Benjamin on leisure
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Franklin, Benjamin on anxiety
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"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."

Franklin, Benjamin on argument
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