"When you are seventeen you aren't really serious."

Rimbaud, Arthur on adolescence
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"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does."

Hershey, Lewis B on adulthood
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"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

Stone, W. Clement on action
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"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."

Unknown, Source on advantage
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"Distance is a great promoter of admiration!"

Diderot, Denis on admiration
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"Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you."

Brooke, Rupert on admiration
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"The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started."

Unknown, Source on action
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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on adaptability
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"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

Gandhi, Mahatma on adaptability
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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile."

Proverb, Indian on adaptability
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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

Cocteau, Jean on addiction
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!"

Alt, Carol on admiration
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"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

Jung, Carl on addiction
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on addiction
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"It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state."

Ching Ning Chu on action
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"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on action
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"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on action
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on action
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"Effective action is always unjust."

Anouilh, Jean on action
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on achievement
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert 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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"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Alito, Noelie on action
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"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on action
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"What you are will show in what you do."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

Carnegie, Andrew on action
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"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed."

Caddy, Eileen on action
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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

Buffett, Warren on action
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"All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full."

Bible on action
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"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]"

Bible on action
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"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."

Bergson, Henri L. on action
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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