Quotes by Unknown, Source

"Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

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"Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."

Unknown, Source on endurance   

"Speak well of your enemies... you made them."

Unknown, Source on enemies
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"One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends."

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"A person is his own worst enemy."

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"If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum."

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"A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice."

Unknown, Source on joy   

"I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things."

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"If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well."

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"Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment."

Unknown, Source on entertainment   

"Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present."

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"Enthusiasm is contagious. You can start an epidemic."

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"Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match!"

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"Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind."

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"Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you."

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"Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by."

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"Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be."

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"The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."

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"Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference."

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"Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever."

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"Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary."

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"Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice."

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"In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new form of Christianity -- based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability."

Unknown, Source on evangelism   

"Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

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"Evil spelled backward is live."

Unknown, Source on evil
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"After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D."

Unknown, Source on evolution   

"Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages."

Unknown, Source on evolution
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"Two million years from now the scientists can start a row by claming that the creatures of that period descended from us."

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"Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans."

Unknown, Source on exaggeration   

"Don't be just another member of society, be a living example of your dreams and goals."

Unknown, Source on example   

"A good example is the best sermon."

Unknown, Source on example   

"Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners."

Unknown, Source on example   

"Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy."

Unknown, Source on example
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"Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow."

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"Live as you wish your kids would."

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"Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it"

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"Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice."

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"Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly."

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"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself."

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