"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Beckett, Samuel on failure
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on insanity
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success."

Unknown, Source on success
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"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."

Allen, Hervey on age and aging
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"Play and dance now before the fiddler lays his bow to rest."

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"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on achievement
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"Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it."

Unknown, Source on self-reliance   

"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-reliance
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"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

Aurelius, Marcus on endurance
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

Aurelius, Marcus on fulfillment
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

Gandhi, Mahatma on idleness
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-control
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"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

Gandhi, Mahatma on wisdom
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. "

Morley, Christopher on individuality   

"There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Morley, Christopher on success
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"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

Morley, Christopher on perseverance
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-respect
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"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?"

Hillel, Rabbi on individuality
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"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."

Barrett, Ethel on individuality
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"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on uniqueness
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco on uniqueness
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"A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours."

Buscaglia, Leo on uniqueness
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"You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse."

Peers, John on self-expression
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"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say, I lost it."

Harris, Sidney J. on adulthood
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

Woolf, Virginia on adulthood