"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Leaders and Leadership
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"The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry."

Unknown, Source on Anger
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" Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. "

J. Harris, Sidney on Uniqueness
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"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

Johnson, Samuel on Perseverance
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Compensation
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Destiny
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Difficulties
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Difficulties
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."

Twain, Mark on Courage
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