"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on perseverance
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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

Reagon, Bernice Johnson on challenges
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"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Bannister, Roger on determination
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"If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself."

Pascal, Blaise on humility
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"To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself."

Nightingale, Earl on service   

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything."

Magazine, Bernard on mistakes
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"A place for everything, and everything in its place."

Beeton, Isabella Mary on organization
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"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."

DeVos, Richard M. on dream
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"Believe that each day that shines on you is your last."

Horace on present
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"No one does anything from a single motive."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on motivation
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"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."

Ziglar, Zig on friends and friendship
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"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

Meyers, Ernest on age and aging
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"Eternity -- waste of time."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on eternity
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"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you."

Azai, Rabbi Ben on leadership
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"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."

Ibsen, Henrik on ideals and idealism
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"A good speaker makes a good liar."

Proverb, German on speakers and speaking
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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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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on loneliness
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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

Iacocca, Lee on action
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed."

Daney, Serge on reality   

"Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!"

Wilson, Mclandburgh on attitude
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always."

Shelton, Richard on change
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"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it."

Hitchcock, Alfred on fear
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"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

Eliot, George on deeds and good deeds
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"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise."

Brecht, Bertolt on poverty and the poor   

"Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best."

Cook, Joseph on family
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"When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal."

Zukav, Gary on love   

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on listening
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"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."

Woollcott, Alexander on present
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"Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements."

Erhard, Werner on integrity   

"Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed."

Porter, Irene on change
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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Eliot, T. S. on pride
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