"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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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

Aurelius, Marcus on harmony
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"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

Epictetus on perseverance
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"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Aurelius, Marcus on focus
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

Aurelius, Marcus on judgment and judges
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"Confine yourself to the present"

Aurelius, Marcus on present
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Aurelius, Marcus on thoughts and thinking
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"One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth."

Aurelius, Marcus on truth   

"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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"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."

Robbins, Anthony on achievement
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"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Robinson, Eddie on achievement
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"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

Anster, John on action
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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on action
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"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."

Besant, Annie on action
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Bronowski, Jacob on action
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"We live in deeds

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world."

Bailey, Philip James on achievement
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"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on achievement
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Hill, Napoleon on achievement
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"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

Disney, Walt on achievement
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"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on honor
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"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Allen, James on destiny
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"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."

Waitley, Denis on desire
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"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."

Newman, James on circumstance
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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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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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

Buddha on endurance
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius on friends and friendship
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"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

Plato on worry
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"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

Plato on age and aging
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"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."

Socrates on control   

"In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent."

Socrates on life
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"There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance."

Socrates on evil
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