"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on attitude
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"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on appearance
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"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

Ashe, Arthur on appearance
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"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."

Cohen, Herb on appearance
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"Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely."

Hubbard, Kin on appearance
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"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Berlin, Irving on attitude
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"You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action."

Brunner, Dr. Jerome on attitude
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"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth."

Buck, Pearl S. on attitude
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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

Clark, Glenn on attitude
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"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."

Desai, Morarji on attitude
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on change
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"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."

Holtz, Lou on self-improvement
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"There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself."

Carnegie, Andrew on self-improvement
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"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

Allen, James on self-improvement
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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on action
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

Faulkner, William on ability
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"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."

Ford, Henry on ability
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"“The will is a powerful ally and desperate enemy. When not subdued by self-control, it becomes a tyrant of selfishness. Under the yoke of self-control however, it is a driving force of perseverance.”"

Vanderlinden, Natasha on self control
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"Strength is a matter of a made up mind."

Beecher, John on strength
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"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Freud, Anna on strength
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"Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back."

Unknown, Source on strength
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"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces."

Viorst, Judith on strength
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"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Washington, Booker T. on strength
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. on love
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