"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

Rank, Otto 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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"That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency."

Quinton, John on laughter
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"The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place."

Allen, Loius A. on action
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"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Alito, Noelie on action
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"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."

Cavour, Camillo Benso Conte Di on trust
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"Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow."

Butts, Mary F. on trust
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"Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him."

Bible on trust
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"When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trust
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"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."

Arp, Jean on art   

"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone."

Baldwin, James on art
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"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture."

Chandler, Raymond on art   

"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."

Burke, Edmund on liberty   

"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself."

Breton, Andre on liberty   

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

Balzac, Honore De on equality
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps."

Bellin, Gita on purpose
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"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."

Bruyere, Jean De La on conversation   

"It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then."

Armour, Richard on conversation   

"Innovators are inevitably controversial."

Gallienne, Eva Le on innovation   

"People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure from violent passions or temptations to evil -- those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints."

Gallienne, Eva Le on saints
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"THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on fate
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"But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs."

Campbell on fate   

"Example is the best precept."

Aesop on example
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"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words."

Brooks, Phillips on example
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"Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek."

Franklin, Benjamin on ambiguity   

"There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play."

Moore, Brian on identity   

"Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything."

Johnson, Samuel on identity
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"I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not."

Chase, Chevy on identity   

"It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are."

Baudrillard, Jean on identity   

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

Allen, Fred A. on business
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"Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night."

Aikman, Leo on worry
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"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices"

Beecher, Henry Ward on worry   

"Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence."

Blair, Hugh on worry
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."

Boom, Corrie Ten on worry
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"A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself."

Archbold, Ralph on speakers and speaking   

"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van 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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