"Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it."

Horton, Doug on selfishness
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on achievement
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"To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working."

Weaver, Dennis on achievement
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"Tell the world who you are but don’t use a word."

Gil, Fausto on achievement
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."

Everett, Douglas on knowledge
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"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

Carey, Sandara on knowledge
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"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

Angelis, Barbara De on difficulties
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."

Hubbard, Kin on weather   

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

Orwell, George on war
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"It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others."

Unknown, Source on mistakes   

"Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice."

Mayo, William James on mistakes
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"No man fails who does his best..."

Marden, Orison Swett on mistakes
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"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

Link, Henry C. on mistakes
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"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

Levenson, Samuel on mistakes
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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Ford, Henry on mistakes
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"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Bankhead, Tallulah on mistakes
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"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-respect
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
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"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

Lasorda, Tommy on pressure
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"Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them."

Hubbard, Kin on sin
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."

Kersee, Jackie Joyner on preparation
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"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

Wooden, John on fulfillment
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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