"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on power
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"To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on persuasion   

"If the copying machines that came along later had been here during the war, I'm not sure the allies would have won. We'd all have drowned in paper."

Dickey, Alan on bureaucracy   

"Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work."

Beaverbrook, Lord on luck   

"Luck marches with those who give their very best"

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on luck
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Bear the inevitable with dignity."

Streckfuss on difficulties   

"Change is not only likely, it's inevitable."

Sher, Barbara on change
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"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

Casey, M Kathleen on adversity
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"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on influence
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"Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do."

Brown, Les on belief
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable."

Fremont, Jessie B. on joy   

"We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them."

Lair, Dr. Jess on children
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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

Lowell, James Russell on argument   

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes."

Swindoll, Charles on attitude
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"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself."

Anderson, Walter on responsibility
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"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

Landers, Ann on courage
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"The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny."

Fu Wu Ming on war   

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love"

Mother Teresa on joy
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"The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."

Riley, James Whitcomb on perseverance
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on family   

"If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions."

Mandino, Og on emotions
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"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

Mandino, Og on excellence
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"Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable."

Mandino, Og on excellence   

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."

Mandino, Og on control
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"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

Mandino, Og on courage
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"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams."

Mandino, Og on success   

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."

Mandino, Og on character   

"The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven."

Mandino, Og on concentration
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"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality."

Mandino, Og on concentration
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"Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance."

Mandino, Og on action
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"I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person."

Mandino, Og on action
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"Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow."

Breathnach, Sarah Ban on gratitude
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"Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living."

Royce, Josiah on loyalty
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"Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future."

Unknown, Source on fate
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Adams, Douglas on service
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