Quotes by Unknown, Source

"If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land."

Unknown, Source on success   

"If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures."

Unknown, Source on success   

"Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it."

Unknown, Source on success   

"Success and money have nothing in common."

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"Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well."

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"Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given."

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"A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in."

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"If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all..."

Unknown, Source on suffering
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"You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface."

Unknown, Source on suffering   

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."

Unknown, Source on ability
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"Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come"

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"The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think."

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"Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something."

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"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."

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"Wise men are instructed in reason men of less understanding by experience; The most unknowing learn by necessity. Wise men do in the beginning what fools in the end."

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"Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always."

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"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes"

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"What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir."

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"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."

Unknown, Source on belief   

"Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you."

Unknown, Source on belief   

"I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down."

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"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others."

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"If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will."

Unknown, Source on belief   

"If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."

Unknown, Source on belief
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"The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe."

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"The very act of believing creates strength of its own."

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"There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good."

Unknown, Source on biography   

"Everything I do you blame on me."

Unknown, Source on blame   

"If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame."

Unknown, Source on blame
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"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

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"It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers"

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"Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?"

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"The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells."

Unknown, Source on body   

"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."

Unknown, Source on body   

"Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read."

Unknown, Source on books - reading
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"Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience."

Unknown, Source on books - reading   

"In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through."

Unknown, Source on books - reading   

"I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs."

Unknown, Source on books - reading
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"Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life."

Unknown, Source on bores and boredom   

"A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway."

Unknown, Source on bores and boredom