"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adventure
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"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

Alexander The Great on impossibility
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"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

Aristotle on courage
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"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

Adams, John Quincy on courage
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"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."

Edison, Thomas A. on worth
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"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."

Edison, Thomas A. on worry   

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves."

Edison, Thomas A. on possibilities
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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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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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."

Buddha on doubt
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

Buddha on health
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"There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind."

Buddha on mind
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Buddha on present
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"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

Buddha on purpose
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"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Buddha on war
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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

Paolinetti, Jamie on limitation
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"Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle."

Peale, Norman Vincent on adversity
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"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."

Peale, Norman Vincent on detachment
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"Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do."

Peale, Norman Vincent on enthusiasm
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"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

Peale, Norman Vincent on belief
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"When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."

Peale, Norman Vincent on concentration
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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other"

Burke, Edmund on example
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"Confidence is courage at ease."

Maher, Daniel on confidence
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"Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice."

Unknown, Source on confidence
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"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."

Byrant, Mary on courage
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"Courage is acting in spite of fear."

Hunter, Howard W. on courage
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"Because of a great love, one is courageous."

Lao-Tzu on courage   

"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."

Thucydides on happiness
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"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear."

Syrus, Publilius on risk   

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

Lao-Tzu on desire
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"Fear is met and destroyed with courage."

Bell, James F. on fear
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"The secret of freedom, courage."

Thucydides on freedom
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on kindness
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

Lincoln, Abraham on the future
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