"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

Twain, Mark on mothers
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"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on perseverance
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"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on music
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"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on leadership
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"Imitation belittles."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on imitation
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"A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on illusion
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"Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on honesty
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"When all else is lost, the future still remains."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on the future
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on friends and friendship
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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on failure
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"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on doubt
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"To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working."

Weaver, Dennis on achievement
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"Our first and last love is... self-love."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on love
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."

Twain, Mark on impossibility
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"We have the best government that money can buy."

Twain, Mark on government
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."

Jobs, Steve 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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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal 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 a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."

Confucius on fathers
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"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on family
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards."

Twain, Mark on idiots
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on family
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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