"To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind."

Covey, Stephen R. on techniques
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"It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize."

Covey, Stephen R. on character
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"Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it."

Covey, Stephen R. on security
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

Lincoln, Abraham on justice
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"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."

Lincoln, Abraham on judgment and judges
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"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

Lincoln, Abraham on peace
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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."

Lincoln, Abraham on laughter
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on liberty
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"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."

Lincoln, Abraham on lies and lying
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"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

Lincoln, Abraham on listening
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"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."

Lincoln, Abraham on marriage
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"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambiguity
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path."

Lincoln, Abraham on genius
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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

Lincoln, Abraham on ancestry
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"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

Lincoln, Abraham on god
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"Whatever you are, be a good one."

Lincoln, Abraham on greatness
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"A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Lincoln, Abraham on happiness
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship   

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

Lincoln, Abraham on the future
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite."

Lincoln, Abraham on quarrels
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make."

Lincoln, Abraham on time   

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."

Lincoln, Abraham on self-improvement
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"Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts."

Lincoln, Abraham on respectability
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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on resolution
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"The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on reality
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"Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on women
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"What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself."

Lincoln, Abraham on publicity   

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

Lincoln, Abraham on procrastination
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"Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"

Lincoln, Abraham on power   

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."

Lincoln, Abraham on poverty and the poor   

"Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves."

Lincoln, Abraham on posterity   

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

Lincoln, Abraham on popularity
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"If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on persuasion   

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

Lincoln, Abraham on books - reading
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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