"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

Ziglar, Zig on failure
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"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."

Ziglar, Zig on friends and friendship
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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily."

Ziglar, Zig on motivation
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"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

Ziglar, Zig on potential
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"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opinions
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"Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Be smart, but never show it."

Mayer, Louis B on modesty   

"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."

Phillips, Wendell on failure
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"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."

Phillips, Wendell on books - reading   

"All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing"

Leschak, Peter M. on focus
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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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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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"The way you see people is the way you treat them."

Ziglar, Zig on treatment
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