"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

Mandino, Og on adversity
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on success
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Schweitzer, Albert on success
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"The greatest success, is successful self acceptance."

Sweet, Ben on self-esteem
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"Success makes success, like money makes money."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on success   

"Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow."

Unknown, Source on success
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"You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success."

Ziglar, Zig on success
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"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."

Locke, John on understanding   

"To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit. General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess."

Blake, William on generalizations   

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

Byron, Lord on sorrow
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"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

Shaw, George Bernard on teacher
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"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on wisdom
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"Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost."

Buddha on zeal
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"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do."

Gray, Albert on success   

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"My only wish is that my wishes be at rest."

Ruckett on wish and wishing
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"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."

Martin, Mary on habit
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on pride
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"If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride."

Horton, Doug on wish and wishing
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"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."

Whately, Richard on truth
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"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

Richter, Jean Paul on birthdays
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Frost, Robert on diplomacy
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"Why do we want to test people for drugs and alcohol? Why don't we test them from stupidity, illiteracy and avarice? The place would be better."

Unknown, Source on illiteracy   

"Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth."

Warburton, William on reason   

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME."

Field, Franklin on time
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

Bodett, Tom on school
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"What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love."

Westcott, Bishop on service   

"The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority."

Stockman, Ralph W. on courage   

"The unlived life is not worth examining."

Morris, Tom on analysis   

"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."

Proverb, Arabian on candor
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"Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]"

Shakespeare, William on justice
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"Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Bierce, Ambrose on deliberation   

"Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind."

Graham, James on marriage
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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

Voltaire on love
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"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener."

Thomason, Pauline on marriage
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"Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."

Billings, Josh on love
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