"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

Gandhi, Mahatma on conflict
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"live as if your were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"Nothing is impossible for pure love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"We must become the change we want to see."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

Gandhi, Mahatma on causes
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"A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

Gandhi, Mahatma on candor
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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

Aristotle on dignity
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

Gandhi, Mahatma on violence
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"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-confidence
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"Where there is love there is life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Hatred can be overcome only by love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on hatred
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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