"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

Hemingway, Ernest on simplicity   

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Hemingway, Ernest on uncertainty   

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

Hemingway, Ernest on writers and writing   

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast."

Hemingway, Ernest on life   

"Never mistake motion for action."

Hemingway, Ernest on action   

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."

Hepburn, Katharine on life
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"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Hepburn, Katharine on rules
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"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

Hepburn, Katharine on work
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"Without discipline, there is no life at all."

Hepburn, Katharine on discipline
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"Man's character is his fate."

Heraclitus on character
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"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

Herodotus on deeds and good deeds   

"The destiny of man is in his own soul"

Herodotus on destiny
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"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing."

Herodotus on growth
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"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."

Herodotus on perseverance
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"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Hillary, Sir Edmund on obstacles
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"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."

Hillary, Sir Edmund on goals   

"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman."

Hilton, Conrad on enthusiasm
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"Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Hilton, Conrad on perseverance
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"There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue."

Hinckley, Gordon B. on virtue
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"Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self."

Hindu Proverb on improvement   

"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down."

Hitopadesa on greatness   

"Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed."

Hitopadesa on success   

"Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined."

Hitopadesa on youth   

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

Hogan, Ben on joy
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"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."

Hobbes, Thomas on prison   

"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."

Hobbes, Thomas on science   

"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

Hobbes, Thomas on tranquility
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"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

Hobbes, Thomas on wisdom   

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"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."

Hoffer, Eric on discontent
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"Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting."

Hoffer, Eric on escapism
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"They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor."

Hoffer, Eric on failure
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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on favors
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"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

Hoffer, Eric on ambition
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Hoffer, Eric on habit   

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

Hoffer, Eric on happiness
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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."

Hoffer, Eric on hatred
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"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

Hoffer, Eric on history and historians
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"It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence."

Hoffer, Eric on influence   

"We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white."

Hoffer, Eric on judgment and judges   

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on lies and lying
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