"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"One man's folly is often another man's wife."

Rowland, Helen on adultery
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"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

Wonder, Stevie on ability
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true."

Tracy, Brian on self-esteem
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"Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

Peck, M. Scott on self-esteem
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"Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women."

Mcclung, Nellie on self-esteem
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"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on self-esteem
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"Study to be what you wish to seem."

Bate, John on self-esteem   

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"For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."

Brecht, Bertolt on sex
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"Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French."

Graham, Harry on seduction   

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home."

Bickerstaffe, Isaac on army and navy   

"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."

Feiffer, Jules on adolescence
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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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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"Adultery is the application of democracy to love."

Mencken, H. L. on adultery
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