"The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere."

Swinnerton, Frank on failure   

"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."

Phillips, Wendell on failure
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"Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues."

Bacon, Francis on ideas
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"He's no failure. He's not dead yet."

George, William Lloyd on failure   

"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it."

Proverb, Russian on happiness
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"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."

Zapata, Emiliano on courage
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
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"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

Plato on age and aging
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Jefferson, Thomas on brevity
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on desire
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"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

Horne, Lena on attitude
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"Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on theory   

"In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for."

Wood, Elijah on   

"Nunc scio quit sit amor. Lat., Now I know what love is. "

Virgil on   

"He drew a circle that shut me out-- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. "

Markham, Edwin on
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"Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image. Another reason we hide is to protect ourselves from change. . . Still another reason we don't disclose ourselves is that we were never taught how. . . Personal ambitions and economic pressures also give us powerful reasons for concealing what we really are. . . All of us hide behind the iron curtain of our public selves. . . Men hide what prevents them from seeming strong and masculine. . . Disclosure is so important (because) without it we really cannot know ourselves. Or to put it another way, we learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. For example, if I never express my sorrow, my love, my joy, I'll smother those feelings in myself until I almost forget they were once part of me."

Jourard, Sidney on love
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"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."

Hill, Napoleon on procrastination
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"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

Sandburg, Carl on peace
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."

Diderot, Denis on theory   

"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."

Howe, Edgar Watson on theory   

"Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on theory   

"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"One of these days, is none of these days."

Proverb on procrastination
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"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy."

Waitley, Denis on procrastination
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"The wise does at once what the fool does at last."

Gracian, Baltasar on procrastination
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"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on procrastination
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

Tolkien, J. R. on procrastination
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"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."

Butler, Samuel on procrastination   

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"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on life
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"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."

Blake, William on possibilities
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"Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright."

Ellis, Alice Thomas on death
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"The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on riches   

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

Aeschylus on memory
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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