"I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers."

Pope, Alexander on faith   

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life."

Fitzhenry, R. I. on wisdom   

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

Wooden, John on planning
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"Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people. "

Kocher, Gerhard on indifference
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"It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are."

Mackintosh, James on contentment   

"Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it."

Geneen, Harold S. on happiness   

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."

Boulanger, Nadia on life
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"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

Aurelius, Marcus on integrity
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"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."

Confucius on worry
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"Those who can command themselves command others."

Hazlitt, William on leadership
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"Anger cannot be dishonest."

Bach, George R. on anger
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"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward."

Maltz, Maxwell on security   

"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion."

Catullus on love
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"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."

Toffler, Alvin on risk
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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Channing, William Ellery on difficulties
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"We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception."

Howard, Vernon on conflict   

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time."

Lombardi, Vince on attitude   

"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."

Waitley, Denis on imagination
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"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on friends and friendship
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"Personal power is the ability to take action."

Robbins, Anthony on power   

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."

Traherne, Thomas on gratitude
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"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on life
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"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on growth
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"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on laughter
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"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."

James, William on knowledge   

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"The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."

Dyer, Wayne on understanding
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"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."

West, Mae on personality
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"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on death
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"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."

Proverb, Jewish on family
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"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?"

Hillel, Rabbi on individuality
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"Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future."

Hayes, James L. on management
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"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

Byrnes, James F. on security
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"Choice strengthens all."

Prescot, Neal on choice   

"The one thing that matters is the effort."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on effort
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"The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship."

Angelis, Barbara De on example
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"I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

Washington, Booker T. on hatred
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