"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

Proverb, Indian on competition
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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on motivation
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"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

James, William on purpose
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"I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing."

Shakarian, David on work   

"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on bores and boredom
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"I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow."

Miyazawa, Kiichi on work   

"Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much."

Cosby, Bill on children
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"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."

Patton, George S. on blood
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"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on time   

"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on happiness
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"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

Gaulle, Charles De on character
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"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning."

Sandburg, Carl on optimism   

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Borge, Victor on laughter
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"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us."

Cousins, Parks on circumstance
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics
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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Jefferson, Thomas on attitude
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"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Hepburn, Katharine on rules
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"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."

Ibsen, Henrik on words
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"Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

Washington, George on virtue
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"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

Sophocles on wisdom   

"May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future."

Dickson, Paul on past
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"It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men."

West, Mae on marriage
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"My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me."

West, Mae on nudity
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"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."

West, Mae on obscurity
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"I used to be snow white, but I drifted."

West, Mae on virtue
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"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on character
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"A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is."

Miner, Jack on character
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"Character is what you are in the dark."

Moody, Dwight L. on character
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"Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us."

Paine, Thomas on character
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"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

Plato on character
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on character
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"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble"

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on character
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

Lincoln, Abraham on character   

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on heroes and heroism   

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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