"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."

Lombardi, Vince on possibilities
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"If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life."

Ashe, Arthur on complaints and complaining
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"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

Luther, Martin on devotions
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

Buddha on self-esteem
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

Ball, Lucille on self-esteem
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"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."

Abert, Geoffrey F. on self-esteem
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"Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."

Walters, J. Donald on acceptance
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"If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him."

Pike, James Albert on acceptance
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"It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do."

Heavenrich, Charly on acceptance
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"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."

Hemans, Felicia D. on affliction
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"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."

Viscott, David on affirmation
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"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on affirmation
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"When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them"

Roberts, Jane on affirmation
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"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives."

Madwed, Sidney on affirmation
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
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"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest."

Ali, Muhammad on affirmation
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

Cicero, Marcus T. on silence
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