"When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy."

Peale, Norman Vincent on problems
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"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately."

Kissinger, Henry on politics   

"I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated."

Stern, Howard on motivation
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"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on impossibility
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"A good scare is worth more than good advice."

Horace on advice
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"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"When we are not sure, we are alive."

Greene, Graham on certainty   

"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."

Malcolm X on education
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"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

Sarnoff, David on anger
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"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

Rockefeller, John D. on perseverance
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"All kinds are good except the kind that bores you."

Voltaire on bores and boredom   

"Never tell me the odds."

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo on risk
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

Alcott, Louisa May on adversity
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides."

Hubbard, Ruth on theory   

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive."

Ephron, Nora on controversy   

"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion."

Cicero, Marcus T. on opinions   

"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

Edwards, Tryon on opinions
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
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"Character is more important than intelligence for success."

Beaux, Gilberte on success
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"Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing."

Gurdjieff, George on death   

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch."

Steele, Sir Richard on books - reading
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on psychology
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her."

Christie, Agatha on age and aging
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"Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great."

Kempis, Thomas on flattery
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"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Nair, Keshavan on courage
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"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on thoughts and thinking
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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Byron, Lord on mystery
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"You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."

Movie, Apollo 13 on adversity
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"Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it."

Caddy, Eileen on joy
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"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

Terence on friends and friendship
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

Fuller, Thomas on chance
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"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."

Akhenaton on anger
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"To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."

Londen, William on health
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"Self-love seems so often unrequited."

Powell, Anthony on love